Glen Rice Jr. is failing at being a chip off the old block.
His father is famous for being a deadly 3-point shooter in the NBA and (perhaps infamous for?) allegedly hooking up with Sarah Palin in 1987.
Rice Jr.? He's got the infamous part down pat. The 2013 second-round draft choice of the Wizards was shot in the leg Sunday night ... and then arrested, according to TMZ.com.
A fight broke out at Scales 925 restaurant in Atlanta -- incidentally, the restaurant is owned by rapper T.I. -- spilling out into the parking lot. Shots were fired, and Rice Jr. suffered a bullet wound to the leg. According to police, Rice fled the crime scene running and ditched a gun by throwing it on a stairwell, TMZ reported.
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He tried to escape by getting into a Porsche, but police stopped the car. Apparently, there was another reason Rice didn't want to involve police.
According to a police report posted on the Atlanta Journal Constitution: "I noticed a black book bag that was abandoned on the parking lot next to the Porsche. I opened the bag and found 240.4 Grams of marijuana and a US Passport that belongs to Mr. Rice. ID took pictures of the bag and its contents, and the bag was handed over to Investigator Fowler along with $5,953 in cash that was in Mr. Rice's possession when he was shot and they were left inside the vehicle to be taken to property as evidence. Mr. Rice was charged with reckless conduct and possession of marijuana (240.4 Grams)."
That's more than half a pound of pot, to you and me.
The younger Rice has a history of weapons use. He dismissed from Georgia Tech in 2012 after being charged with unlawful operation of a vehicle related to a shooting incident outside an Atlanta nightclub, the AJC reported.
"Everybody makes mistakes, " Rice told NBA.com in 2013. "I made mine. The most important thing was to own it, accept it and try to learn from it, which I have. I'm ready to move forward. Whoever said, 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger' knew what they were talking about. I feel like that's what's happened to me."
Rice Sr. won an NBA title with the Lakers in 2000, but he also may have won the affections of Palin, according to a National Enquirer report based on a book about Palin by author Joel McGinniss -- as reported by Larry Brown Sports:
"Sarah hooked up with the NBA great, then a 6-foot-8 junior at the University of Michigan when he was playing in a college basketball tournament in Alaska in 1987," the book says. "At the time, Sarah, just out of college, was working as a sports reporter for the Anchorage TV station KTUU."
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