Former NBA Star Has New Job as Crossing Guard

[MdmeX]

Not that he needs the money



Former NBA star, Adrian Dantley, is working as a crossing guard in Silver Springs, Md. (ABC News)





SILVER SPRING, Md. March 19, 2013 (AP)






Former NBA star Adrian Dantley spent years guarding opponents on the court. Now he's guarding schoolchildren as they cross the street.

Radio station WTOP (http://bit.ly/YlNvyo) reports that Dantley, a hall-of-famer and former star for the Utah Jazz and Detroit Pistons, started working as a crossing guard in September. He works an hour a day at Eastern Middle School and New Hampshire Estates Elementary School in Silver Spring, Md.



Ths 6-foot-5 Dantley grew up in the area and says he took the job for the health care benefits and to have something to do. Montgomery County civil service records show he gets paid $14,685.50 a year. Dantley says he doesn't need the money.

He says he enjoys giving the young children high fives and encouragement.

[Hortical]

Another broke former professional athlete who squandered his money. Is he any smarter than the Jamaican farmers?

[Me]

Where did it say he was broke?

[Bricktop]

It's not because he's broke, either. According to the sports site, Deadspin, Dantley -- an Olympic athlete and former NBA guard-forward -- wanted the medical benefits. Dantley, 58, still lives in the home he purchased for $1.1 million in 1990 and was known for being a penny-pincher, according to Deadspin, but the NBA apparently doesn't provide its former athletes with medical benefits. "He's not just going to sit around," a Dantley "associate" tells Deadspin, "and he just doesn't want to pay health insurance."

[MdmeX]

Another broke former professional athlete who squandered his money. Is he any smarter than the Jamaican farmers?

He is not broke. This is a man who live frugally. So stop!

[Hortical]

My bad

Purchasing health insurance on your own can not cost more than $1,000/month for a family on the high end. That might be too much for him...

[MdmeX]

Why pay $12,000 a year for insurance, when you can do meaningful work and reduce the cost ..and he likes what he is doing

[Gamma]

And Get Paid!!!!!!

[Assasin]

i was watching celebrity wife swap the other day and Gilbert the commedian who starred in many movies still go to the dollar store and buy his stuff. When he goes to the resturant, he goes to one he knows well and go in the kitchen and eat his free meal with his wife right there.

It was unbelievable, so unless the story say more, he may just be a penny pincher.

[Karl]

Maybe not...we have some 'old folk' down here doing some menial jobs with a smile.