There is no reason in the world an NBA player should have an outstanding arrest warrant on them. They have way too much money not to have a lawyer take care of that, so they don’t have to deal with situations like Taurean Prince is dealing with at the Miami airport.
Prince was just trying to get his Rick Ross on when this happened.
Timberwolves forward Taurean Prince was arrested Thursday in Miami.
The six-year NBA veteran was taken into custody at Miami International Airport on a fugitive out-of-state warrant that came from Texas. Prince is a native of San Antonio and attended college at Baylor.
It was unknown what charge Prince faced from the warrant, and was not immediately clear what he was doing at the airport. He was booked under his legal name, Taurean Waller-Prince, at 7:51 p.m. at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center adjacent to the airport, according to Miami-Dade County’s Corrections and Rehabilitation website.
Prince played his first season for the Wolves in 2021-22 and was an important player off the bench as they returned to the playoffs for the first time since 2018. He averaged 7.3 points per game.
The 28-year-old signed a two-year, $16 million deal this offseason with the second year not guaranteed. The team did not immediately return a request for comment.
Prince has also played with Brooklyn, Atlanta, and Cleveland. He was the 12th overall pick in the the 2016 draft by Utah, but his rights were traded to the Hawks.
According to Slater Scoops, the warrant was for “serious drugs,” but in Texas, that could mean he just had some weed on him.
I am sure if he were Tony Montana, he wouldn’t have been able to leave the state in the first place.
I wouldn’t consider this a big deal UNLESS the drugs were something legitimately serious, like bricks of coke.
Flip the page for the T-Wolves’ statement about the arrest.