Javaris Crittenton has fallen a long way. The former Georgia Tech star guard was a first round draft pick in 2007, and played for three NBA teams in three years. His unfortunate fall from grace, and most lasting memory for casual fans, is his role in the infamous Gilbert Arenas locker room gun incident.
After unceremoniously leaving the NBA, he briefly tried playing in China, where he dominated, but left shortly because he didn’t feel comfortable. Next he played in the D-League, but quit because he couldn’t live in North Dakota.
He couldnt make his millions playing ball, so he turned to another form of hustling. Upon his return to Atlanta, he decided to epitomize all of the worst hip-hop stereotypes from the late 90s and early 00s by, we now know, forming, funding and participating in a major drug ring.
Last week, Atlanta police arrested 14 people, including Crittenton, in the middle of a drug shipment moving 400 kilos (approximately 900 pounds) of cocaine and 10 pounds of marijuana. A pound of marijuana is roughly the size of a dictionary and a kilo of coke is roughly the size of a paperback thriller by Dan Brown or John Grisham.
So Crittenton is getting a whole boatload of drug trafficking charges added to the one he is currently fighting, a second degree murder charge from 2011. In a drive-by shooting, it is believed Crittenton was trying to shoot a man who had allegedly robbed him at gunpoint of cash and jewelry worth upward of $50,000. His intended target was not injured, but a woman in the room, Julian Jones, was the unlucky recipient of the bullets and died.
