Stella at college with Uconn first and Super Rookie with Bulls then, Gordon has always fought with the demons of depression. Who risked more than once they have the better
“I had the mentality of a serial killer. I developed all your trends and weaknesses and I thought about how to massacre you. It was a violent, exaggerated thing”. For heaven’s sake, the killer Instinct in the field is needed, all right. But what passed in Ben Gordon’s head while playing basketball was something more left. That would manifest time later, not even so much. No, Jeffrey Dahmer, the cannibal of Milwaukee, or David Berkowitz, the “son of Sam” who in the summer of ’77 terrified New York City, has never become Jeffrey Dahmer. Indeed, the opposite, the only person he thought of hurting was himself.