EX-NBA star Antoine Walker agrees to pay off gambling debts
Former NBA star Antoine Walker will pay more than $12,800 a month to the Clark County district attorney's bad check program in order to make good on gambling markers totaling more than $900,000.
Defense attorney Jonathan Powell and Chief Deputy District Attorney Bernie Zadrowski announced the agreement today before Justice Court Judge Melanie Andress-Tobiasson.
As part of the payment plan, Walker agreed to waive his preliminary hearing and Andress-Tobiasson said she would postpone binding over Walker to District Court. She said if the former Boston Celtic misses a single monthly payment, she will send him up to District Court "so fast it will make his head spin."
Walker racked up nearly $1 million in gambling debt to three Las Vegas casinos, and he also owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid markers to casinos in Lake Tahoe.
Zadrowski said the $12,835 monthly payment represents a minimum. If Walker finds employment, the monthly payment could increase to $21,391 per month. Also, Walker agreed to forfeit the $135,000 cash bail he posted after his arrest earlier this year, which will constitute the first payment to the casinos.
Contact reporter Doug McMurdo at dmcmurdo@reviewjournal.com or 702-380-8135.
