Greg Anthony reportedly arrested in prostitution sting
Retired basketball player and TV analyst Greg Anthony has been arrested in connection with a prostitution sting. According to reports from WJLA, the ABC affiliate in Washington D.C., Anthony was arrested in a vice operation for soliciting a prostitute. A brief note at the station’s website says that Anthony is in lockup as of this writing.
The report was first posted on Twitter by a member of the ABC7 news team:
Jennifer Donelan then credited her colleague Sam Ford with first obtaining the relevant information:
Anthony rose to prominence as a member of the iconic UNLV Runnin’ Rebels teams of the late ’80s and early ’90s. He joined the New York Knicks as the 12th-overall pick of the 1991 NBA Draft and went on to play for five more teams until his retirement in 2002.
More recently, Anthony has been in the public eye as an analyst for Turner Sports and CBS, including as the lead color commentator for the latter during the NCAA Tournament. He is also a contributor to Yahoo Sports as a basketball analyst.
As noted by Matt Yoder of Awful Announcing, Anthony was scheduled to call Saturday’s game between Michigan State and Maryland in College Park for CBS:
We will continue to update this story as it develops.
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Eric Freeman is a writer for Ball Don’t Lie on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter!
