For someone who never looked more alive than he did with the ball in his hands, it has been disheartening in recent years to see what’s become of Steve Francis after his life in pro basketball ended.
In 2011, the one-and-done Maryland men’s basketball star showed up at Maryland Madness, his face seemingly aged two decades in the three years since his last NBA appearance. Video of a 2016 drunken-driving arrest showed him yelling expletives at police. A month after that DWI, he turned himself in on an outstanding arrest warrant for burglary.