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Former Chicago Bulls player Ben Gordon ARRESTED at NYC’s LaGuardia airport for beating his 10-year-old son so hard that child had to be rushed to hospital: NBA star to be charged
- Gordon, 39, was arrested after the incident at the LaGuardia airport on Monday night, and may be charged with beating his son Elijah
- The 10-year-old boy was taken to hospital after his father beat him, according to media reports
- The British-born, New York-raised athlete retired from professional sport in 2015 and has been open about his struggles with his mental health.
- In 2017, he was arrested in New York for driving with a fake license plate, and weeks later charged with beating the manager of an LA apartment complex.
- Gordon pulled a knife on the man and took the money he believed to be his bail: he was ordered to undergo therapy
- In 2020, Gordon wrote a detailed account of his struggles, detailing his suicidal thoughts, bipolar diagnosis, and mania that left him divided into sections.
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Former Chicago Bulls star Ben Gordon has been arrested at the LaGuardia airport after beating his 10-year-old son so hard that the child had to be hospitalized.
Gordon, 39, was detained by airport police on Monday night and his son Elijah was taken to Long Island Jewish Hospital along with his aunt. New York Daily News reported.
Sources told the newspaper that the British-born, New York-raised athlete was expected to face charges of resisting arrest, among other charges.
It’s just the latest run-up to the law for the troubled sports star, who played with the Chicago Bulls from 2004 to 2009 before joining the Detroit Pistons.
Gordon won the Sixth Man Award in 2005 as a rookie with the Bulls, playing alongside Luol Deng.
Ben Gordon is pictured during a March 2018 court hearing in Manhattan, charged with driving with a false license plate
The sporting star is pictured in April 2011, while signed to the Detroit Pistons
He played two seasons with the Charlotte Bobcats and ended his career with the Orlando Magic in 2015.
Gordon’s problems started soon after and he has been open about his struggles with his mental health.
In 2020, in a powerful essay, he wrote about: The players’ stand“There was a time when I thought about suicide every day for about six weeks.
“This was right after my last year in the competition, and I was living in a brownstone in Harlem.
“I had lost my career, my identity and my family almost at the same time. I was manic-depressive. I wasn’t eating. I didn’t sleep.
“And when I say I wasn’t sleeping, it was like a whole different level of insomnia. Every night I woke up at the same time, like clockwork. And then the demons would come out.”
Gordon retired in 2015 and has been open about his mental health issues in recent years
Gordon was arrested multiple times in 2017 — first for driving in New York with a fake driver’s license and then for beating the manager of an LA apartment complex.
Gordon pulled a knife on the man and took the money he said was his bail: as a result, he was ordered by the court to undergo therapy.
In late October, he was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after an incident involving a woman at a store he owns in Mount Vernon, New York.
Police called by the woman found Gordon locked in the store’s bathroom.
The woman told police they got into an argument and he got physical, threw and destroyed things, then locked her in the store.
The shop, Of Our Own, is a sports rehabilitation and recovery center.
“It got so bad that they had me admitted to a mental hospital, and the problem was I didn’t even understand why it was happening,” Gordon wrote in his 2020 essay.
“It was just like in the movies. I’m in a white room, and I’ve got doctors and nurses strapping me to a bed. They’ve got the scrubs on and the gloves on, and they’re sticking needles up my arms and cutting my pants off at the waist.
“It was terrifying.”
He said the therapy helped immediately, and advocated for others to seek help.
The Port Authority police have not commented on Gordon’s arrest.