Ex-NBA Participant Ben Gordon Arrested For Hitting 10-Yr-Previous Son

Former NBA participant Ben Gordon was arrested at LaGuardia airport in New York Metropolis on Monday for reportedly putting his 10-year-old son, sources inform the New York Publish.

The 39-year-old one-time “Sixth Man of the Yr” was ready for a flight to Chicago when Port Authority cops allegedly barred him from coming into the aircraft and arrested him at 8:45 p.m., in response to the Publish.

His son, who was not publicly named on account of his age, was introduced by his aunt to Lengthy Island Jewish Youngsters’s Hospital for analysis.

Gordon’s Son Taken To Hospital For Analysis, Former NBA Participant Arrested By Port Authority Police

The previous taking pictures guard, who performed beforehand for the likes of the Chicago Bulls and Detroit Pistons earlier than leaving the NBA in 2015, was booked and processed on the Port Authorities police station home.

Prices towards him are nonetheless pending, and particulars about his arrest and son’s situation remained unknown as of Tuesday.

The Publish, citing police sources, reported that two Port Authorities officers obtained minor accidents through the arrest, nonetheless it was not instantly clear as to how they  had been injured.

That is hardly the primary brush with the legislation for Gordon, who’s been arrested a number of occasions in the previous couple of years.

Gordon Opens Up About Psychological Well being Points, Suicidal Ideas, Bother With The Legislation

In 2017, Gordon was arrested for assault and theft. That very same yr, he was additionally charged with driving with a cast license plate in Harlem. He was additionally charged with setting off hearth alarms inside his Los Angeles dwelling in one other arrest, even supposing there was no hearth, the Publish reported.

A British-born American who holds dual-citizenship, Gordon went to Mount Vernon Excessive College in Westchester County, simply north of New York Metropolis, earlier than starring at UConn and profitable a nationwide championship again in 2004.

Gordon has been very candid through the years along with his psychological well being points.

 

In 2020, he opened up about his struggles in a chilling first-person account in The Gamers’ Tribune, writing that he even contemplated suicide at occasions.

“I’d be up on the roof of my condominium constructing at 4 o’ clock within the morning, simply pacing to the sting of the ledge, trying over — pacing backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards — simply considering, I’m actually about to do it, B,” Gordon wrote.

Gordon went on to put in writing that his panic assaults received so unhealthy one night time, that “all I may take into consideration was escape.”

“I’m about to flee from all this s–t. I used to be obsessive about killing myself. It’s all I researched, all I considered. One night time my panic assaults received so unhealthy that every one I may take into consideration was escape. … You develop into like an animal. It’s instinctive.”