Keon Clark stepped into his car on a Sunday night in August 2013. He was intoxicated and had a mixture of anti-depressants and anti-anxiety pills in his system.



Over the previous two months, Clark had racked up four felony charges, including possession of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of a firearm.



That night, he blacked out behind the wheel and hit a telephone pole a block away from his house, flipping the car on its hood.



He was bruised and battered — but somehow, Clark escaped serious injury.



When the police arrived, he refused to give blood and urine samples to test for alcohol even though he admitted to the officer he’d drank too many beers. He had bloodshot eyes and was slurring his speech.



Incidents like this were nothing new to Clark. For a long time, the former NBA power forward had been an alcoholic who was constantly in trouble with the law.



He spent six months in prison in 2008 after...