Steve Francis may be inextricably tied to Houston, but that doesn't mean it's always smooth sailing when the retired point guard is at home in Texas. Over the weekend, Francis was at a Sauce Twinz concert when an unidentified assailant snatched his chain and made off with it. Though TMZ has obtained video footage of the incident, at press time there was no indication that the thief had been identified. Still, Sauce Diddy, who manages the promising Houston natives, pledged that the chain would be located and returned. "Nobody's calling the police," he said. "We're gonna find it. We're gonna get it back."

While Sauce Diddy went out of his way to say that Francis is "good people," he did lament that the former NBA star was very intoxicated during the performance. "[Francis] must have been drunk," he said. "He was mumbling on the mic and bumping into people. At one point, one of my artists tried to get Steve to leave the stage." When the robbery went down, it wasn't pretty; in the video, you can see the individual grab Francis by the neck and subsequently stomp him once he was on the floor of the venue.

The Sauce Twinz have been making headway in Houston; members Sancho Saucy and Sauce Walka hare known as witty, irreverent rappers who stay insular with their producers and collaborators, mitigating against the pull to work with other buzzing Southern acts. Francis, who was picked second overall in the 1999 draft by the Vancouver Grizzlies, played nine seasons in the NBA.

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