When one sport or career is all you know for your livelihood, the possibility of it being taken away prematurely can be scary. That's exactly what Dahntay Jones felt at one moment in his career when he was released by the Sacramento Kings in a Mike Bibby trade. Around that time, it was Jones' first year of not playing basketball and he had been stuck in contract negotiations with two other teams. He'd also been dealing with personal problems which only stacked stress on his mind. This led to him having an Anxiety attack.
You can listen to him detail the story but this tells a wider tale of what's going on with athletes when all they may have is sports and when a league like the AAF goes down, the ramifications are wider than just the league failing. At the time, Dahntay Jones was thankful to have the D-League but think about what many of these athletes in the AAF are losing when they hear that this league full of hope may end up folding after its first season...
Here's Dan Beyer and Dahntay Jones' conversation:
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