Former Chicago prep basketball star Antoine Walker, a longtime NBA player, was in Cook County Court this week to answer allegations that he has not paid his nearly $4,200 per month child support payments to the mother of his 13-year-old daughter. Walker also allegedly owes the girl's school more than $27,000 in tuition.

As if this weren't a big enough issue, the judge in the case ruled that he couldn't act on the matter because the longtime pro basketball player has a bankruptcy case pending already. Walker has had a host of financial problems in recent years, despite the fact that he earned well over $100 million during his NBA career. He filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in 2010, at which time he reported having $12.7 million in liabilities and just $4.2 million in assets. Those assets include $2,900 in a savings account, $19,000 in furniture and clothes and his $6,000 NBA championship ring.

Walker, who starred at Mount Carmel High School in Chicago, Illinois, played 13 years in the NBA, retiring in 2008. Recently he has been attempting a comeback by playing in the NBA Development League in Boise, Idaho. He had to get approval to travel to Illinois for the hearing because he is on probation in Idaho stemming from guilty pleas over not paying gambling debts totaling $750,000 to three casinos in Las Vegas.

Walker owes $117,000 in child support, according to attorneys connected to the case. It will be up to a federal judge to determine if the court procedures related to Walker's financial problems will be able to proceed while he is in bankruptcy court.

Source: Chicago Tribune, "Antoine Walker accused of not paying child support, tuition," Naomi Nix, Dec. 23, 2011