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Shawn Kemp
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Shawn T. Kemp (born November 26, 1969, in Elkhart, IN (Elkhart, IN: more facts about this subject) ) was a professional basketball (basketball: A game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the basketball through an elevated horizontal hoop) player in the United States (United States: North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) ' National Basketball Association (National Basketball Association: the national basketball association of the united states and canada, commonly...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) . He attended Concord High School in Elkhart. After graduation, Kemp signed a national letter-of-intent to play basketball at the University of Kentucky (University of Kentucky: the university of kentucky (also as uk or simply kentucky) is a public, co-educational...
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The last few years of Kemp's professional basketball career was riddled with problems stemming from his weight, cocaine (cocaine: A narcotic (alkaloid) extracted from coca leaves; used as a surface anesthetic or taken for pleasure; can become powerfully addictive) and alcohol abuse (alcohol abuse: Excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic drinks) .
On April 4th, 2005 Shawn Kemp was arrested in Seattle (Seattle: A major port of entry and the largest city in Washington; located in west central Washington on the protected waters of Puget Sound with the snow-capped peaks of the Cascade Range and Mount Ranier visible to the south and east; an aerospace and computer c) , Washington (Washington: A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific) for an investigation of drug possession. Kemp along with another man were found with cocaine, about 60 grams of marijuana (marijuana: A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared) and a semiautomatic pistol, according to the King County (King County: king county is the name of a number of counties in the united states|united states of...
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