Houston Rockets: Former center Marcus Camby could be headed to court

Former Houston Rockets center Marcus Camby may be heading to court soon over a case of negligence in the drowning of a nine-year-old child.

According to a report from Josh Marshall of KHOU-TV, former Houston Rockets center Marcus Camby, who played for the Rockets in 2012, is being sued by his own family for the death of his nine-year-old nephew.

The lawsuit was filed by Camby’s brother-in-law alleging that he failed to supervise his autistic nephew during a family trip last November. Camby’s nephew, Marcus McGee, wandered off to a nearby pond — that was on Camby’s property in Pearland — and later drowned. McGee was found by police two days later after a widespread neighborhood search.

KHOU legal analyst Gerald Treece said that the lawsuit isn’t about family vengeance. Here’s what he had to say:

"“Negotiation with the insurance company is my guess, I think they just hit a stalemate.”“I think they’re trying to figure out a solution and the lawsuit just puts the insurance companies on notice that these people need to get a recover and get more reasonable.”"

In addition, Treece mentioned that there is a possibility that Camby will fight the lawsuit if the family members continue with pressing charges, although there’s no word on that at this time.

If that happens, the suit must prove that Camby was indeed negligent.

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While you can’t be everywhere and know everything that is going on at all times, Camby should have been more vigilant and more aware of his nephew’s whereabouts, especially since his nephew had special needs. That in itself would have prevented this awful and tragic situation from happening in the first place.

Life is about learning from your mistakes, no matter how painful they may be and growing from them. Hopefully Marcus learned from this situation and when he’s put in such a critical supervision role, he’ll know what to do to prevent something like this from happening again.

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Camby, 43, played for 17 years in the NBA after being drafted by the Toronto Raptors fresh out of the University of Massachusetts in 1996, after he memorably helped guide the Minutemen to the Final Four that year.

With the Rockets, Camby averaged 7.1 points, 9.3 rebounds, 1.5 blocks in 19 games back in 2011-12. He had previously had appeared in 40 games for the Portland Trail Blazers before being part of a trade deadline swap that brought him to H-Town for the remainder of the season.

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