NY Knicks Player Cleanthony Early Shot & Robbed After Night Out at Strip Club

New York Knicks second-year rookie Cleanthony Early was shot in the knee while leaving a strip club in the early morning hours of Wednesday (December 30) in Queens, New York.

The 24-year-old NBA player and an unidentified woman were leaving CityScapes Gentlemen’s Club in an Uber when six men in ski masks robbed him, took his gold teeth caps, and shot him in the knee, the New York Times reports.

Cleanthony is now recovering at Elmhurst Hospital, and the woman and driver were not harmed. He last played in a game on Tuesday (December 29).