When he retired in 1994 he went to play baseball. It was such a weird thing. His dad always wanted him to play baseball and supposedly he did it to honor him (his dad had been murderer just prior). There are a bunch of conspiracies as to why he retired for a couple years and then came back. Some say he was going to be disciplined by the NBA for something, so to spare his blushes he retired and went to do the baseball thing. Supposedly he had a bad gambling problem that had something to do with it as well. Who knows, but he he was a beyond mediocre baseball player who would have never been given the chance unless he was who he was.