Former Dallas Mavericks forward Charlie Villanueva is missing a toilet after a robbery
Former NBA player Charlie Villanueva had his toilet stolen.
The former first-round pick turned to Twitter to complain that his toilet was among many items stolen from his Dallas home during a recent burglary.
Villanueva, 33, who most recently played with the Dallas Mavericks, posted a photo of the space in his bathroom where his toilet once stood.
In a series of sometimes profane tweets , Villanueva says his home appliances also were taken during the burglary Tuesday.
The former Detroit Piston and Toronto Raptor described the episode as ‘mind blowing,’ adding that he’s ‘in shock.’
Villanueva criticized police for a slow response to his burglary report, saying he called four times about the purloined toilet.
Villanueva tweeted out a photo of his bathroom, which was missing its toilet
Another Twitter user created the handle ‘Stolen Toilet’ and responded to one of his tweets by asking: ‘Charlie are u looking for me?’
And it wasn’t just his toilet, according to Villanueva.
‘Appliances all gone, like are you serious?’ he wrote on Twitter. ‘This is mind blowing.’
Born to Dominican parents in Queens, New York, Villanueva was a star at the University of Connecticut before being drafted by the Toronto Raptors with the seventh pick of the 2005 NBA Draft.
While he did make the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 2006, the rest of his professional career failed to meet expectations.He was not re-signed after the 2016 season.
Naturally Villanueva, a former first-round pick, was in disbelief after the theft
He had his best season with the Milwaukee Bucks when he averaged 16.2 points and 6.7 rebounds a game in 26.9 minutes of action.
Villanueva is reportedly working on a documentary called ‘What is Alopecia,’ which is an autoimmune disease he’s afflicted with that prevents him from growing hair.
‘There are kids and adults that have committed suicide over this,’ Villanueva told The Detroit Free Press. ‘It’s not a life-threatening disease, that’s why a lot of people overlook it.
‘But it’s life-threatening because, emotionally and mentally, it can screw you up with the bullying and not feeling confident and low self-esteem. It definitely has its downside.’
Retired NBA star Kevin Garnett – a notorious trash talker – once allegedly told Villanueva that he looked like a ‘cancer patient.’
‘G called me a cancer patient,’ Villanueva tweeted in 2010. ‘I’m pissed because, u know how many people died from cancer, and he’s tossing it like it’s a joke.’
Garnett claims it was a ‘major miscommunication.’
Villanueva was also frustrated by the response time of the Dallas Police Department