Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Locked Up Ballers Rock Alligator Shoes and Mink Coats


A great read for anyone interested in the prison ballers locked up in different places around the country. Seth Ferranti over at hoopshype does an awesome job depicting everything that goes into being a prison baller. From former high school stars to death row inmates. Here is my favorite passage from one of his articles.
And for prison basketball superstars like Purple life was sweet. “We wore street clothes so dudes were walking around in alligator shoes, Hugo Boss jeans and one dude even had a full-length white Mink coat. Don’t forget we were doing time. We had visits seven days a week and if you were in the loop, you had the opportunity to have sex with your woman seven days a week. It wasn’t nothing for a dude to be walking around the Hill with two or three thousand in his pocket. I remember a shakedown where the law found 48 grand in the ceiling."

And that my friends is the life of a prison superstar.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

There is no way that is true. Funny though if it is.

Anonymous said...

lol i thought it was fake until i read the article. lolol