He was known for having an entourage as big as 50 people. He helped popularize in the NBA the hip hop fashion sense of neck tattoos and absurdly large diamond jewelry. He traveled with a hair stylist, and spent lavishly on everyone around him.
...maybe one of his 50 “peeps” will help him? Or he can work in a tatoo parlor? Or sell his big gold dollar signs he wore around his neck? Lots of stuff!
RE: He was known for having an entourage as big as 50 people
If you win the $300 Million Powerball, you’ll suddenly have lots of friends and family you never even knew you had...
If you lose all that money somehow, all of these people suddenly disappear.
On a much smaller scale, it reminds me of Steeler running back, "Frenchy Fuqua", in the mid 70s.
He was a good back, never a super star and never made large money, but spent like he really had some.
I'd be in some of the downtown clubs when Frenchy and his entourage, consisting of a couple of brothers and 3 or 4 hookers would come into the place.
Regardless of how many were in the place {when he came in the night, usually several hundred} he would set up drinks for every one.
When his career was over he was delivering newspapers in Detroit, after he had declared bankruptcy.
Living large with the Detroit Free Press.