As the ESPN documentary “Broke” taught us, professional athletes can lose all of their earnings in the blink of an eye. One person who knows that path well is former NBA big man Vin Baker, who saw his basketball career fizzle out due to alcoholism and surrounding himself with the wrong people.
As a result, while working occasionally as an ordained minister and trying to find a job in the league, Baker, 43, works at a Rhode Island Starbucks. Kevin McNamara of The Providence Journal penned the story.
Baker finds himself working at the iconic chain after losing nearly $100 million in total earnings, but has remained positive, as he told McNamara.