Chron is a reptutable source with integrity. I am sure facts had been checked before it was reported.
I see people mentioning suicide. Running your car into a train? A history of treatment for clinical depression, substance abuse, and alcoholism? It was either suicide or he was under the influence of something. That's what I think. Regardless, it's really sad. So much athletic potential, making 10 times the money that most people do, but it seems as if he couldn't overcome whatever it was that was eating at him.
His lives in Sugarland, but the accident occured on Lawndale in SE Houston at 1:30 a.m. It doesn't compute.
the dude had some major demons he just never overcame. i'm reading the espn comments section, and i thought it was unfortunately appropriate. his life was a train wreck, and that was the way he died.
Well I have no ideas about the details of his personal life, but this is a gross assumption on my part that he was surrounded by a whole bunch of 'yes' people as celebrities often are. Maybe people close to him knew he was troubled but never asked him to get help or even take it upon themselves to seriously intervene. (Maybe like what Brittney Spears is going through according to the tabloids) Clinical help is better than none at all.
I do remember Les Alexander saying something about they offered Eddie counseling and he wouldn't take it. I think Les said he was extremely depressed. Man all things considered this may be the most tragic story the NBA has seen. I wonder what ESPN will have on it. I remember Yao liked Eddie a lot.
This is really sad, but like Ken Caminiti, it's not surprising. Eddie had a lot of problems. I pray that his death is better than his life.
