Facing alleged violent robbers at the Negro Gang Hobos trial, ex-NBA player Bobby Simmons's memory fails as the nervous shits kick in

Three years ago, former NBA player Bobby Simmons had a vivid memory of how he said he'd been robbed at gunpoint of a $200,000 diamond necklace outside a River North nightclub.

But testifying before a federal grand jury and at the trial of the hardened criminals you're accusing are different things.

Faced across a courtroom Thursday from members of the Hobos street gang — who the feds say have a history of bumping off witnesses — Simmons' memory failed him.

"I don't remember," he repeatedly answered a federal prosecutor's questions about the robbery on June 10, 2006.

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