Eric Williams Made $40,000,000
Eric Williams played in the NBA from 1995 to 2007. His best year came during the 1996-97 season, when he put up 15 points per game at forward for the Boston Celtics. Despite reportedly going broke and homeless after making $40 million in his career, the worst thing that happened to Williams after leaving the NBA was appearing on the reality show Basketball Wives: Miami.
He made a fool of himself on the show by getting in an argument with his ex-wife, Jennifer Williams, and throwing a drink in her face. He didn’t exactly make friends with the other wives on the show, either, as Tami Roman, ex-wife of former NBA player Kenny Anderson, commenting on the news that Williams was broke and homeless, added insult to injury by saying, “God doesn’t like ugly.”
Bison Dele Made $36,000,000
Bison Dele, a.k.a. Brian Williams, former center for the Chicago Bulls was just starting to sort his life out and understand that he had a higher calling. He was part of the championship team in Chicago in 1997. By 2000, he had changed his name and started to change his life, cutting off all the leeches that were sucking money off of his success.
He was later traded to the Pistons, however, he decided to walk away from the remaining five years on his contract which would’ve put $36 million in his pocket. He made the bold decision to set sail into the South Pacific in order to clear his head. Unfortunately though, he disappeared while at sea and was never to be seen again.