Former NBA player Ben Gordon was arrested in Los Angeles and charged with beating his 10-year-old son.
The boy was taken to Long Island Hospital for medical evaluation after the details became clear.
The New York Post reports that Gordon was waiting to board a flight to Chicago when Port Authority agents barred him from boarding and handcuffed him on alleged child abuse charges.
Police sources told the American newspaper that the two Port Authority officers suffered minor injuries trying to arrest Gordon.
Gordon, 39, was previously arrested on charges of assault and robbery and driving with a fake license plate.
In 2020, Gordon told The Players Tribune about his struggle with depression and mental health issues.
"For six weeks, not a day went by that I didn't think about killing myself. I was on the roof of my apartment at four in the morning, looking down and thinking, 'I'm going to do this. I'm going to put all this crap behind me,'" Gordon explained.
"It was right after my last NBA season. I ran out of career, identity and family around the same time. I was in manic depression. I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping, and then the paranoia and anxiety were untreatable," the former player said.
In his 11 years in the NBA, he played for the Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons, Charlotte Bobcats and Orlando Magic, averaging 14.9 points in 744 games in the regular season.
Gordon was the NBA's sixth-best player in 2005, scoring more than 11,000 points and earning more than $84 million in contracts over the course of his career.
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