{"id":5310,"date":"2024-07-19T10:56:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T14:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailycupofwellness\/?p=5310"},"modified":"2024-07-19T10:56:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T14:56:51","slug":"former-nba-star-mike-gsminki-shares-his-testimony-of-faith-and-recovery-from-alcohol-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailycupofwellness\/2024\/07\/former-nba-star-mike-gsminki-shares-his-testimony-of-faith-and-recovery-from-alcohol-addiction.html","title":{"rendered":"Former NBA Star Mike Gsminki Shares His Testimony of Faith and Recovery From Alcohol Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former basketball player Mike Gminksi recently detailed his career struggles with alcoholism and his journey to Christ. Gminksi, who played four years at Duke and was named the ACC Rookie of the Year, appeared on the \u201cUNPACKIN It\u2019 podcast recently, where he addressed various topics, including sharing his testimony. During the interview, he shared that his relationship with drinking started when he was in college, but at the time, it wasn\u2019t a full-blown addiction.<\/p>\n

Gminski said, adding that alcoholism runs in his family, so it was something he was familiar with growing up, \u201cWhen I had my first beer, and I was with a bunch of older guys on the team, I was starting with the varsity and hanging out with them, and you know, it wasn\u2019t an everyday thing for sure, you know, weekends, maybe after a game after a win or something, but it did start then.\u201d At the same time, he said that drinking alcohol during college wasn\u2019t something negative that impacted his life until later on during rough seasons of his life, such as the divorce of his first wife in 2011, whom he had been married to since 1981 and the loss of his second wife, Sarah, years ago due to a \u201cmassive internal hemorrhage.\u201d<\/p>\n