Isaiah Rider, Charles Smith: An overview of NBA Players’ arrests - (Part-4)
Isaiah Rider:
Isaiah Rider spent almost nine years in the National Basketball Association (NBA). His professional basketball career was a story of arrests and controversies as he was arrested roughly 832 times. Rider, who retired from NBA in 2010, was involved in number of serious offences including, altercation, kidnapping, and fighting with his superiors on number of occasions. He was also involved once in extreme altercation with a sports bar manger. The police charged him with fifth degree assault and sent him to jail on that occasion.
Rider, who made early impression with his game during the college days, always remained in media limelight with his different stunts as a professional basketball player. He never showed a true character of an NBA player whose first priority always rest with his game.
Rider went to University of Nevada in Los Vegas and played his college basketball with Nevada University. He started his basketball career in 1993 when the Minnesota Timberwolves selected him 5th overall in the first round of NBA 1993 draft. Rider played wonderfully in his Rookie season and acclaimed much appreciation from many basketball experts. He then went on to play for the Portland Trail Blazers, Atlanta Hawks, Los Angeles Lakers, and Denver Nuggets.
Charles Smith:
The former Boston Celtics guard Charles Smith was also involved in several arrests and convictions in his professional basketball career. During his tenure at the Celtics, he was involved in many Driving under Influence (DUIs) offences. His major offence involved an incident in which he killed two students under his car. He was too drunk when his car hit those two students in Boston’s suburb. He was charged with vehicular manslaughter. However, Smith 24 at that time was consequently acquitted of the serious charge of manslaughter and was sentenced to only four years in jail on account of drunk driving.
He was a standout player at Georgetown, but went undrafted in 1989. He however made his way in the league and played for the Boston Celtics and the Minnesota Timberwolves. In fact, when the incident happened, Smith was on a 10-day contract with the C’s.
On October 21, 2010, Smith was shot in Maryland under dubious circumstances as the police found huge stash of drugs at the scene of incident, the next day.
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