Trai Donaldson

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So there are wild stories flying around the internet that a former walk-on who appears to have been on the roster in 2011-12 was arrested in Tampa for murdering 4 people in a serial killer case. I don't even know what else to say, beyond awful.
 
Yeah the Story is crazy. Guy was a walk-on and graduated in 2016.

What’s sad is he had a good life. His parents were married, his parents owned multiple hair salons plus a hair Academy so he was doing fine financially. He also had a good marketing job with the NBA.

Such a bizarre story.
 
Yeah the Story is crazy. Guy was a walk-on and graduated in 2016.

What’s sad is he had a good life. His parents were married, his parents owned multiple hair salons plus a hair Academy so he was doing fine financially. He also had a good marketing job with the NBA.

Such a bizarre story.
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So what was he doing working at a McDonald's? After the recruitment of a transvestite recruit and this nut job I think we need a ban on anyone who played high school basketball in the state of Florida.;)
 
Played on SJU 2011-12 men's basketball team

RT @NYPost_Brazille: Man arrested for Florida serial killings played basketball at St. John's on 2011-12 team b 5 hours ago
 
Yeah the Story is crazy. Guy was a walk-on and graduated in 2016.

What’s sad is he had a good life. His parents were married, his parents owned multiple hair salons plus a hair Academy so he was doing fine financially. He also had a good marketing job with the NBA.

Such a bizarre story.
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So what was he doing working at a McDonald's? After the recruitment of a transvestite recruit and this nut job I think we need a ban on anyone who played high school basketball in the state of Florida.;)
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I have no idea. He just lost I guess. Guy was living the great life and he snapped.
 
Obviously this can all be traced back to Steve Lavin who saw great potential in him as a walk on. His disappointment from the Lavin experience drove him mad. He had nightmares about the "hammer-to-rock" motto. In his mind the hammer represented a part of a firearm and the rock a firing pin. :eek:
 
Yeah the Story is crazy. Guy was a walk-on and graduated in 2016.

What’s sad is he had a good life. His parents were married, his parents owned multiple hair salons plus a hair Academy so he was doing fine financially. He also had a good marketing job with the NBA.

Such a bizarre story.
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So what was he doing working at a McDonald's? After the recruitment of a transvestite recruit and this nut job I think we need a ban on anyone who played high school basketball in the state of Florida.;)
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I have no idea. He just lost I guess. Guy was living the great life and he snapped.
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I don't know how you guys can extrapolate that he had a great life without knowing any more than he had parents who owned some beauty salons. Mental illness could run in his family. Home life could still have been rough, beauty salons could have been under duress, and mental health issues could have been ignored - a million things that we will probably never know.

He did attain a college degree, but mental illness or criminally violent people are not just members of the lower rungs of society. I kind of hope he is severely mentally ill, because the alternative that he is a violent sociopath who is otherwise normal is chilling.
 
Obviously this can all be traced back to Steve Lavin who saw great potential in him as a walk on. His disappointment from the Lavin experience drove him mad. He had nightmares about the "hammer-to-rock" motto. In his mind the hammer represented a part of a firearm and the rock a firing pin. :eek:
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Be fair. Lavs only recruited two murderers. Dave Bliss had a much worse record.
 
:( Don't know if this was already posted while I was in Orlando. Former walk on Howell Emanuel Donaldson was arrested in connection with Florida serial killings. I don't remember this kid, maybe he never got in a game.
 
That was the year the team had open tryouts to fill the roster following the ineligibility of Sampson, Garrett, Pelle.

 
Team has open tryouts every year but the need was greater for bodies that year.
 
I don't think this had anything to do with Lavin.
They needed bodies and they took kids from the Rec center.
Let's be fair here.
 
I don't think this had anything to do with Lavin.
They needed bodies and they took kids from the Rec center.
Let's be fair here.
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If one of his walk-ons won the Nobel Peace Prize do you think Coach Lavs wouldn't himself have taken credit for helping the young man on his incremental magic carpet ride up the mountain? It'd be first line on his resume.
 
I don't think this had anything to do with Lavin.
They needed bodies and they took kids from the Rec center.
Let's be fair here.
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If one of his walk-ons won the Nobel Peace Prize do you think Coach Lavs wouldn't himself have taken credit for helping the young man on his incremental magic carpet ride up the mountain? It'd be first line on his resume.
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I think you really dislike Lavin more than Jarvis. Or is it just a more recent thing?
I really thought Mahoney was a buffoon, but Norm wiped Mahoney's ineptness almost completely out of my memories.
Unfortunately or maybe fortunately still haven't found someone to take Norm's place.
 
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