Sometimes you might pick up an old NBA base card from the 1990s and ask, whatever happened to...?

Well, I've also been going through NBA pages on Google and Wikipedia and looking up where a lot of players I remember from my youth are now, including some of the lesser publicized stars and role players who aren't constantly in the media as much as some others. Some fascinating stories and tidbits can be found.

Seems the most common career path after playing, is coaching. A number of former players are coaching at some level, often in college or as assistants in the pros. Broadcasting in various capacities is also fairly common. After that, entrepreneurial business ventures are another thing I see pop up here and there.

Some of the more interesting stories:

Muggsy Bogues is quite the guy. Here's a deep article last year about how he saved his brother from a life of drugs -- https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...d-meaning-life

A Google search on Ken Norman led to a bunch of articles on how he once had a mansion and left it to complete rot; very bizarre story -- https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/...ndoned-mansion

Clifford Robinson is really, really into marijuana legalization activism, and even sells his own joints -- https://sports.yahoo.com/news/cliffo...210119458.html

Rumeal Robinson and former Nets teammate Tate George turned out to be hardcore financial fraudsters and have each served time for it at the federal level. Rumeal even swindled his own mother out of her house -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumeal_Robinson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate_George

Derrick Coleman, on the other hand, seems to have turned his life around. Quite infamous for complaining and underachieving in the pros, he's now dedicated to helping residents in Flint and Detroit -- https://www.sportscasting.com/former...s-in-the-past/

Anthony Bonner is in his 50s, is a minister, and is still in such good shape that he's schooling college-age players in St. Louis --
https://www.stltoday.com/sports/coll...54ca9958a.html

Another guy who seems to have done well after his playing career is Walt "The Wizard" Williams. I found several links on him, and he's been busy with investing, charities, and giving some interesting interviews on his playing days in the '90s.

Some guys, I couldn't find anything about. Elden Campbell is a mystery; no idea where he's at now. I couldn't find much on P.J. Brown, either, but one of his daughters was a highly successful basketball player in college, and is now in the WNBA -- https://www.wnba.com/player/kalani-brown/

There were also some disturbing and weird stories. Warriors forward Byron Houston had multiple sex offender incidents in the 2000s and has a few mug shots on Google. Another 1992 draft member, Oliver Miller, went around pistol whipping people in the 2010s, but now invites people to e-mail him for motivational speeches on a rather makeshift looking Facebook page -- https://www.fox10phoenix.com/sports/...inspire-others

Still have a number of players to look through and read about.