Will he be able to log his first league action since 2022?
One-time former Portland Trail Blazers small forward Tony Snell is looking to make an NBA comeback — for a very specific reason, writesSnell, 32, is looking to play in the league again during the 2024-25 season, which would be his 10th, to help support his family long-term. Although players earn a solid pension plan following just three seasons, benefits for a spouse and children only start after 10 seasons. Snell and his wife Ashley are raising their sons Karter, 3, and Kenzo, 2 in Florida.
After Karter was diagnosed, Snell realized that odds were decent he, too, might be autistic. During an appearance on "The Today Show" in June of last year, the 6-foot-7 swingman informed Craig Melvin of NBC that he was, indeed also diagnosed as being on the spectrum. “I didn’t know autism,” Ashley told Grammer. “The only thing that I heard about autism was negative things. And so I think for us, when we’re faced with this autism diagnosis, that’s when it was like, ‘Hey, well, when we heard , it was negative.
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