You own a hotel in Turks and Caicos. You also wrote a book called “Stamina,” which is pretty self-explanatory given your journey from where you began to today. What’s your day-to-day like now?
DA: “Basically, I still do my hotels, but now I do movies. I wrote one book, I do motivational speaking and I write movie scripts. I sit at home, work and network and connect with other people and their business.”
What inspired you to do all that?
DA: “What inspired me to write the book was I met my mother for the first time in 24 years. When I met her, it inspired me to write a book about forgiveness, about me being abandoned. She left me in an empty apartment at 10 years old. I had to find my own way for years. She never came to games, never supported me. Or my father.
“So I went to find both my parents. I met them, and I was like, ‘People need to forgive people. If I can live my life and make it through all the stuff I’ve been through, having a child at 14, being a single dad at 15 and still make it, you can make it too.’ I was just inspired to do that.”
Do you follow the Clippers?
DA: “Always. Even when I came back, I’ve always loved the Clippers, because the people were good.”
Is it kind of crazy to think how far they’ve come since your playing days there?
DA: “Yeah, we practiced at Carson Community Center and got kicked out of practice one day. It’s a totally different thing.”
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Anderson was at the Pelican a few days ago.
