Crime in Sports - #365 - The Real President - Delonte West

Episode Date: July 25, 2023

This week, we catch up with a guy who most people last saw, in a video, being beaten in the street, rather than being in the NBA Finals, next to Lebron James, and possibly Lebron's mom, as well! There is no way not to feel for a guy who clearly has some mental issues to deal with, but he has to help himself before it's too late. In the meantime, he continues to get arrested, and say absolutely outlandish things, like yelling at police officers that he "is the real President"!Be a most unlikely NBA star, maybe have sex with Lebron's mother, and carry your shotgun in a guitar case with Delonte West!!Check us out, every Tuesday!We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!! Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: [e-mail] Get all the CIS & STM merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS & STM!!  Contact us on... twitter.com/crimeinsports [e-mail] facebook.com/Crimeinsports instagram.com/smalltownmurderSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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because this is basketball so oh not a whole lot of brain damage to be had in the game of basketball i'd be rare to be hitting the head that hard you'd have to be it's a have your legs flagrant that's flagrant too have your legs taken out and yeah that'd be rudy tomjanovich maybe that's a very old reference but he got the shit knocked out of him that time so he was ugly before that yeah oh yeah yeah now it's now it's even now he looks even more like an easter island statue i don't know what happened so let's talk about somebody who has been in the news more since he's stopped playing sports stopped playing basketball than he ever was while he played basketball and that is delonte west. Oh, Delonte. Delonte, Delonte, Delonte.

Oh, my word. This is going to be... I'm going to cry today, I think. No, I don't think so. No? No. It comes off... When that video came out, and we'll talk about it.

If you don't know what we're talking about, we'll talk about it later. I don't want to give it all away now. If you don't know what we're talking about, we'll talk about it. What I mean by that video, we've all felt bad for him since then because it's like, oh, man, clearly there's bad stuff going on with him. But it's not in the context of his whole life also, which is like, oh, this is just the latest thing.

It's just recent. Yeah, and we'll talk all about it. There is a lot to feel bad for, but there's also you've got to go, Jesus Christ, Delonte, get your shit together and try. You you know what i mean like stop fucking off like this for christ's sake so you only get coddled when you're in the nba you're not in the nba exactly you're not i'm mark cuban still trying to help him and all this shit because uh he needs it we'll just put it that way so delante maurice west is his name here as we we get into this, he's born July 26, 1983. He's not even 40 yet.

The man's younger than me. As we record this right now, he is not 40 years old. And it seems like he should be like 65, right? For all the shit he's done. Holy shit. It's wild. I can't believe he's only 6'4", also. I didn't know he was that tall.

I figured he'd be like 6'1". I don't know why, but he seems taller to me. Does he? Yeah. He seems like a tiny little shit to me. He's my size, except he weighs like 10 pounds less, 15 pounds less. And I'll bet he weighs less than that now. Now, who the hell knows?

That's his you know listed playing weight so yeah now or he could be 40 pounds heavier by now yeah we don't know depending on the day who knows here so what he's eating we'll get into all of this though holy shit here he is uh he's from maryland he's born in dc grows up in maryland dc area so that that whole area of the maryland was the dmv they call it there dc maryland virginia okay that makes sense the area the dmv yeah so his parents are his mom's name is delphina and his dad's name is dimitri oh and yeah he is um his dad is i believe his dad is black and part native american and then there's white in there too so he's

interesting he's very mixed is what it is and so that's when you look at delante west you kind of go is he from the future or like ambiguous yeah is he yeah he's like a future like a future person or like a you know what i mean you're like it's weird he's got like red hair and you're like yeah what's going on with you? I don't, how many, you know, like your brain, I don't mean that like you would think, what the hell's wrong with you? But like your brain tries to classify things. It just does.

You see a dog and you go golden retriever or whatever the fuck. You see a person, a black guy, that's white guy. That's fucking, whether you want to or not, that's what your brain does. Pete Davidson's very similar. You go to him and you go now pete davidson you just go what's up with you fish lips that's all it is you're just a white guy who looks like you're fucking you know no this guy you go i don't know what is going on here kardashian challenge where you put that cut on your on your limbs i think that's what it was he's borrowing that from from them so from tiktok he has an older brother and a younger sister so he's a middle child delante

his now i don't know how to classify this i i'm going to count this as a junior here because his older brother's a junior so oh if he was born first delante would be a junior but he's not so you know there's the same name? No, no, no. His older brother is Dimitri, like his dad. Oh, okay. Got it. He's Delonte.

But if he was born first, Delonte would be Dimitri. Okay. So that's how it works. Yeah. So there's a junior in the family, which is a problem, whether he's a junior or not. Yeah. He just happened to be made a little bit later in the old sperm bank. That's it.

So it's Dimitri, Delonte, Danielle are the three kids. So all Ds. Oh, yeah. And he said he had a huge extended family growing up. A lot of cousins and aunts and uncles and that kind of shit. He referred to it as a village. There's tons of people here. Takes a village, sure.

He said he stayed with a lot of relatives growing up all over the place moved around a lot he said quote i lived off every exit and would rattle off they said in this article 11 he rattled off 11 different exits he lived off of with apartments and uh when he was a kid good he said i've lived in so many apartments with cousins uncles and aunts just making it which yeah that's that's a weird thing when you're a kid. Do you remember when I went over my list with you? Yeah. From like age fucking five to like 12.

It was like 14 places. It's so weird. That's a lot. Yeah, I put it together one day. I was like, holy shit, I lived in a lot of places. You still do it. It's weird. Yeah, yeah.

I get itchy, man. I was never used to living anywhere for a long time. So when I was a kid, that was like that. So now I get, Sarah has to stop me. We're like two years in a house and I'm like, yeah, we should get out of here. And she's like, we just got comfortable. Calm down. We own this now.

We're not doing this now. Yeah. We got bills and shit that come here. Mortgage. I don't want to redo this. I don't want to do this i don't do this all over again so i'm staying now though i have to i have to stay where i'm where i am now but it's it's a habit that you really start to you know start to you know you can't even help it

it's just what your brain does so he said he you know lived off there he called his family happy poor that's the word the way he described happy poor poor but not miserable poor you know poor but we think it's funny i guess so yeah there's a certain fatalism in baltimore in that area that yeah i just like it it's like they don't get mad if you if baltimore someone said this place is a shithole they're like yeah i had to live here you know what i mean like they're like very yeah like i know it is motherfucker yeah try living here your whole life that's right creating creating new ways to make fire so that you can cook things that's fun there's pride of survival here in a weird way whereas it doesn't exist in other places if you find some like you know fucking west virginia hill people they'll defend what they

how they live and where they live till the end this is what are you talking about yeah that's right nobody's had no one on the entire holler has had a job in 14 years and you know what god damn it that's how we live around here how amazing is this you know yeah they would get mad at you for noticing that they're shitting in a bucket outside rather than yeah improving surviving is not there's no not, there shouldn't be pride. There shouldn't have to be pride. Does that make sense? Yes. You know what I mean?

Yes. Yes. People are like, how are you doing? I'm surviving. Oh, that's great. Yes. No, it's not. I'm a survivor.

That's not good. No. Make fun of where you're from. That's always the best thing. We did the small town murder episode about where I was from. I was vicious on purpose to show you. It's okay to laugh. It's fine. Make fun of yourself. Survive. I was vicious on purpose to show you it's okay to laugh. It's fine.

Make fun of yourself. Not survive. It's great. And that's the other thing. Do that. Yeah. So he said he moved around from school to school a lot, which I know also is difficult. He said that he was, he got picked on a lot in school here.

And my, my thing is I figured out how to be funny. That's how it worked for me. Hey, look at that if you bounce around from school to school you can make friends quick if you're funny you know it takes five minutes for people to figure out you're funny and then it's like oh he's okay how long did it take him to grow to six four because you can just do that too you can do that too but if you're like bigger if you're goofy though and not like yeah particularly threatening it doesn't really help

any yeah exactly that's the other thing now they can see your stupid your goofy head above everybody else's if you're like a if you're a goofy looking person not saying he isn't if you're a goofy looking person dookie was the tallest of the boys exactly you could see his head stick that's why he hunched over he's like don't look at me don't see see me. They're all going to pick on me. So he said that he got picked on a lot. He said, quote, I was real funny looking. He said he had big ears. He had a big mole on the back of his head, which I never saw because he got that removed when he made it to the NBA. As soon as he had the money to do that.

I didn't know that. And a birthmark on his lip that he's also had partially removed. But you can still see the whole thing here. He said light skin red hair people didn't know the fucking white kids made fun of him whatever black kids made fun of him he had no he was a man without a without a tribe really he felt like and he's red hair so nobody likes him so it's you know and you're a ginger right you're not black you're not white and you're also a ginger fuck off you're you're

screwed at that point if you're in this area you know what i mean there's only black and white around here for the most part you're a target for jokes for sure definitely that and kids will make funny for anything a big ears that you could be perfect otherwise but big ears you're big ears you're dumbo and you're this and you're that for the and he's only he's only two years younger than me so he i grew up in the exact same time that he, I know what words he was called. No shit. Oh,

absolutely. Yeah. He said, quote, I was made fun of a lot growing up, but I just knew the basketball court was the place where you couldn't make fun of me. You had to respect me.

And that's a good place. Yeah. You can kind of hide on in sports. And then if you play basketball, well, then people like you. That's the other thing. And then if you play basketball well, then people like you. That's the other thing. And they want you around.

Yeah, it's a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer situation. When you show value, then these assholes who you don't like will like you, which is really a weird paradox that human beings have. Okay, you don't like me for me, and then I show you value. Now you like me, but now I don't like you because you were a dick to me yeah so it's a real how do you figure that um he said that he always had more they said that he always had quote more jokes for me than you had so he learned to pick on himself okay and make fun himself, which is a good defense mechanism. He said, though, that people would say shit to him and he would take it in and take it to heart. He'd act like it didn't bother him and he'd make fun of himself, too, but then he'd go home and be upset about it.

He said he believed his real problem, this is later on he's talking, not when he was a child, but about kind of his whole life. But he said his real problem isn't the bipolar disorder that he'll be diagnosed with later on. No, it's just self-loathing. That's the problem, which is part of the bipolar. That's the depressive swing is the self-loathing. So really it's all kind of in one. He really does hate himself. He said it's not the burger.

It's the bun. You know what I mean? It's like, well, the burger it's the it's the bun you know what i mean it's like well the whole thing is together so you know what are you gonna do he said his parents got divorced when he was young mom worked multiple jobs she had a government job and she also bagged groceries at the supermarket and she was a receptionist somewhere at a hotel and you know all that kind of shit. He said that one of the hotels his mom worked at, visiting NBA teams sometimes stayed at when they came to play the Bulls. Nice one. Yeah, nice one.

So he said that he recalls throwing his ball at one team's bus to, quote, let them know I'm playing too. Fascinating. Fascinating. Fascinating way. Some kid. Yeah, look at that. They're like, fucking some asshole kid just threw a ball at the bus, man. That's all they said.

Why'd he do that? I don't know. Should we stop and ask? He said he's playing too? I guess we just keep going. No player on the team went, he's playing too. He's all right. No, not one guy said that.

Oh, he's playing too. That's what he's telling. Nobody said that. Not a guy. Not one of them. To a man. They No, not one guy said that. Oh, he's playing too. That's what he's telling. Nobody said that. Not a guy. Not one of them. To a man. They went, what the fuck is that little motherfucker doing? Did he shoot?

Was that a gunshot? Did a shot hit the bus? In D.C. too? He said he's playing too? What the fuck does that even mean? I wish I could figure that out. Not where we are, bud. Let him know I'm playing too.

All right. Great. Continue to play cheap. So he said when he was 12, he suffered a pretty good leg injury, which forced him to stop playing basketball for a while. Really? Yeah. And so then he really felt like he had no home or nowhere to go because then he couldn't do anything. The only place where he was happy was playing basketball where nobody could pick on him.

Or if they did, he could then block their shot and be like, well, take that, asshole. So he said this injury was really bad for him. He started skipping school after that because he said, if I can't play ball, then what the hell, why bother going to school? Yeah, I don't need to be at school. So that obviously made things worse. Now he's home and he's feeling depressed

because he can't play ball and now he's not going to school so it's a big snowball and he falls into a deep depression and even has multiple suicide attempts he says during his teenage years here wow yeah he had a hard time he really did um he was in and out of hospitals a couple times as a kid, as a teenager. This kid will make it to the NBA. 12, 13. Yeah. A leg-injured kid who's so mentally just having problems that he keeps having to be put in hospitals over it. And, yeah, you don't expect this is going to be an NBA player later on. Good for you, Delonte.

on but good for you delante oh yeah i mean it's type of thing where if you can if he can if he takes his fucking medication and doesn't do any other drugs it's i think he can get on a path here but you just gotta focus yeah we'll get into all that here that's difficult though i mean he's got obviously an imbalance so his mom felt like delante maybe if he moved in with his father in rural virginia yeah that maybe that would help him. You know what I mean? That's the place. That's the place. Maybe if we just put him on a farm where even if he's screaming, no one can hear him, then that's fine.

Oh, boy. It's the old if a tree falls in the woods. Does anyone, you know what I mean? It doesn't make a sound if no one's around. It's that sort of thing. If he loses his mind and does some weird shit out there and no one sees it is it really that weird did it really happen did it really happen so he said that's where he kind of first quote kind of spiraled downhill he said yeah because you can't be left alone with your own thoughts when their

thoughts are fucking terrible that's not the answer at all. There's obviously more stuff here. She didn't work out. Delonte's father, he said, the mother and Delonte both said that his father really didn't give one shit about his kids' problems here. Didn't care about Delonte at all, or his problems anyway. So his father couldn't handle him, or his mother couldn't handle him. His father doesn't give a shit. You know, he doesn't know what to do here.

So he ends up, starts hanging out with some dudes from his new school where he went to live with his dad and he called them bad influences. They were, I bet. Yeah. Some bad kids. So he said that that helped lead him to a,

both prescription pill and alcohol addiction as a teenager. What? lead him to a both prescription pill and alcohol addiction as a teenager what this guy will somehow make it to have this turn into an nba career this is the it's impressive beginning yeah this is the beginning of a documentary where you watch the person spiral down until they're either giving blow jobs or getting just to get their three dollars. Yeah, for $3. To get a taco. They're looking down at the top of a bald man's head going, get a Best Al. Have we done a bonus on Dope Sick Love? We had two of them. I don't know if we did or not.

Did we? We had two of them, right? We've talked about it so much it feels like we have, but if we haven't, we definitely need to kind of collate all that into one. We've done so many. We've talked so much about it. We could just do a performance of it, honestly, by now, the two of us. Sebastian!

We could do a two-man show of Dope Sick Love. That would be hilarious. A gut needle in a Target bathroom. Oh, that would be so good. I took my daughter to Target, and we used the self-checkout line. There was a receipt sitting there. I grabbed the receipt and handed it to my daughter. I said, go get all that shit off the shelves, and we'll go return it.

Come on, Sebastian. Did you call her Sebastian? She goes, what? And I was like, that's how Dove ends. I'm like, never mind, Faye. She has never had to even think about that. So, yeah, that's's good that's probably good yeah so yeah you wouldn't think this doesn't sound like it sounds like the only way that this would lead

to an nba career is if this guy was like seven foot one and had you know athleticism because six four there's a lot of six four dudes that oh god every team has three of them that's not trust me if it was i would have really pursued it, but it's not. If I was 6'8", you wouldn't have been able to stop me from basketball. But this is different. So he said that he began taking tons of pills, the way he put it, with names he couldn't pronounce. Just take pills and pop them. He said that he...

Sure, they're very long names. Yeah, with, you know, different... Benzo and Oxy and Hydro. I don't know. I'm sure there are all kinds of them. Codone and this and that. Yeah, this isn't good. He said he started cutting himself at this point, too.

Oh, my God. Yeah. This does not sound like it's going to ever turn around, but somehow it does. How did he do it? I have no idea. It's wild uh he's in and out of children's hospitals and you know there's a lot of other kids with problems in there that he's meeting and he said that he the smallest things would set him off just send him into a you know tizzy here he couldn't afford a trip with his aau basketball team which does suck if you're on a

good basketball team and they're going traveling and you can't go because of money that really sucks a dick you know that's very limiting into as to what when people say like oh every doesn't matter if it's a rich kid or a poor kid everybody's got the same chance no they don't no shut the fuck up that's that's the stupidest fucking thing anybody could say in this guy be poor for a fucking day and and you'll complain i don't mean poor right yeah if you're driving a fucking within the last five years fucking f-150 you're not poor okay i'm talking poor where you don't have a car and you can't pay your bills and no well yeah that's poor but i'm talking poor you've had 50 grand for a pickup truck you're not poor no yeah you're you're definitely

in a shit place you're chinese food on credit cards as we've talked about that's what you're doing which is which sucks but it's you know head above not above but your nose is sticking out of the water you got lips out yeah you're drawing you're drawing wind this is i haven't seen the surface ever you know i'm one day I'm hoping to see the surface. So it's hard. He said he didn't see his dad. He wanted like, you know, even like shoes. He wanted the new Jordans and couldn't get them.

Of course. You know, shit like that. He's poor. So he says he was crying for attention at this time. Yeah. And he said that this is one of the reasons why he made it to the nba he said he had a long night at a children's hospital and he said quote i'd made up my mind i was really gonna do it this time tonight was my night i was dead serious i was gonna kill myself tonight by any

means in my room it's not where you expected that to go huh sound like i'm gonna turn it around and it's all good from here he said instead he made a deal with god oh okay bargaining that's that's what you do yeah so he made a deal and he said you help me survive and someday i'll play basketball pro basketball which still i don't know how that's a good deal for god what does god get out of that was he a big fucking cavaliers fan i help you when you get to fuck strippers is that what you're telling me that's the i help you okay have all the fun you drink louis the 13th and fuck strippers at the afterwards i don't understand how that works and you get neck tattoos and that's supposed to be for me? Okay, great.

Well, he said after that, once he makes it, that I'll make sure I glorify your name like no one else is touting. You know what? God has a PR problem. That's not enough. If you look at Q ratings, God's pretty low. People don't know who God is. They're like LeBron James, pretty high, Taylor Swift. But god's like no one's ever mentioned god no god what is that i haven't really heard of that before he does have bad pr though his reps do the reps that he's got out

there for him his reps are terrible god's reps are awful. His hiring department's no good. Absolutely, yeah. No, they have a staunch track record of being finger deep in children, so I would say not. Yeah. Not great. So he said that he's going to glorify God, make sure to glorify your name. He said he made it through the night and left the facility about a month later. He ended up at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Maryland. And he played basketball there and was very good.

He can play ball. No one's ever denied that. He led the team to their first state tournament appearance, and he became the Washington Post's All-Met, I guess All-Metropolitan area, player of the year. In one season. Yeah, he turned everything around. Wow.

So he's got it in him to will himself to do things. It's just that takes a lot of mental stamina and a lot of mental capital. And then when you mix that with fighting off all these other things he has going on, that's just too much after a while. I feel like he can hold together for a certain amount of time, but then it's just too exhausting and you've got to kind of let it unravel for a little bit. That's a great argument for how really talented he is. Everybody else is playing against five other players. He's playing against five other players and like 12 different demons. Oh, he's got all his demons everything else

yeah it's completely he's got a lot of shit going on and also the other kids i don't think are dealing with quite the same mental issues as he's dealing with for the most part i mean they have a lot of kids are poor and they have the same problems there but they don't mix that with being having a chemical disorder here as well or you know whatever an actual diagnosable disorder. So he said that one guy here said, quote, I remember his first game playing JV. I was upset just going off on the team, letting him know how disappointed and frustrated I was. He raises his hand, this little quiet sophomore. And they said, Delonte, you have something to say? Quote, he looks at his teammates and says, Coach, I'd like to apologize to you and all of my teammates.

I feel I didn't play to my capabilities tonight, and it'll never happen again. I'm thinking to myself, you're the only one I'm happy with right now, but that's Delonte, always harder on himself than anyone else could be. Taking all the negative credit from everybody, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and he'll internalize it and just, well, it must be me because I suck. Because that's how he thinks. That's a great teammate to have.

It's a good teammate. Yeah. Oh, he's not blaming other people. Finger pointing. That's a real good teammate to have. Absolutely. Taking responsibility. In the Maryland 4A championship, Delonte had 22 points and 8 rebounds, but they lost the game.

Not because of him obviously pretty good like i said he's washington post all met player of the year he averaged 20.2 points 6.5 rebounds 3.9 assists and 3.1 steals per game you know i should have done more yeah if he did that in the nba that's like, you know, you're making hundreds of millions of dollars doing that. So the wait is over. So far, you're not losing. The only thing you're losing is my patience. Quickly, I see that. The queen of the courtroom is back.

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His coach in high school said that he was blessed and cursed with, quote, the competitive nature of great players. That's what he said. He said that one time, this coach said during a basketball camp, West played on just a randomly picked team, you know, whatever, throw teams together. And he said that most of the kids were concerned with impressing the college coaches that were in attendance at this basketball camp. And he said that the coach found Delonte sitting on a bench alone

and he asked him, you know, did you hurt yourself? And he said, quote, he looks up at me with tears in his eyes, and he goes, coach, we lost by two. It shouldn't have happened. He said that's what made him special because no one else cared about the score of the game. They were just trying to look good for the scouts. And he's crying about it. He's crying because they lost the game. He said at times his competitiveness gets the best of him.

Sure. That makes a lot of sense. That's the fucking problem with something like that he's got to be completely immersed in something whether it's drugs illness basketball positive thing whatever it is it's kayaking yep and then it gets anything yeah but it gets exhausting after a while so you then you want it's almost like that unraveling is like pressure being let out. Like in the book, The Shining, with the boiler in the basement. They had to keep letting the pressure out. You know what I'm saying?

That's what it's like. It's like this. It keeps building up and the balloon's going to pop. So you have to let it unravel and kind of lose it for a little while. So he ends up going to, gets recruited by a few different colleges but he chooses saint joseph's as a college saint joe's saint joe's he goes to that's in maryland right you don't hear yeah i think so you don't hear a lot about that i hear a lot of high schools named saint joseph's but not it's like a catholic school name so and uh hoop dreams that was the

school they were all going right that's why i's where I heard of it. Yeah. Absolutely there. So he said it had a family atmosphere. He played there with Jameer Nelson, who's a future NBA All-Star as well. He was on the team. And they had an undefeated regular season. And they went to the Elite Eight in the tournament in 2004 somehow. Because, yeah. That's wild.

Yeah, you don't see that a lot from them. So his college career here, 2001, 2002, he played in 31 games. He had, let's see, where is it with his points? 5.9 points, three rebounds, 1.2 assists. He's young. It's his freshman year. He's 18. Next year he comes in, plays in 26 games, this time a lot more minutes, and 30.2 minutes a game, and he ends up with 17.3 points a game now.

So 4.3 rebounds, 3.2 assists. Not bad. Yeah, he's getting better. Then his junior year here, plays in all 32 games. I think that's how many they played. And now he has 18.9 points a game, 5.4 rebounds, 4.7 assists. So he just keeps getting better and better. And his assistant coach at school here said that West would call him

sometimes at midnight to ask to be let into the gym. Yeah. He'd call him, can you go open the gym, coach? Because he wanted to do that. He would tell him the next day that he'd been putting up shots. He said, how's it there? Like 4, 3, 4 in the morning. Shooting.

Shooting around. Shooting drills. Practicing. Yeah. His teammate of his here, Dwayne Jones, who played a little bit in the NBA, he said that sometimes West would just stay there. He'd just sleep there. Because he'd play until like 4 in the morning.

He'd just go take a nap until everybody else showed up later. Go home? Waste sleeping time. It's weird. He turns it into some sort of homeless fantasy camp now. It's like strange. So he said, though, he was not the top prospect on his high school team. And his coach said that he made himself into a professional basketball player. Now, Delonte says, quote, I know that's how I became a professional athlete.

I was always so hard on myself, almost to a fault. Okay. Yeah, that's interesting. One of his assistant coaches in high school said, if he's crazy when it comes to practice, he's crazy in a good way. That's good. That's good, I guess, but it leaks over into other things. He doesn't always have a

practice to go to is the problem so then yeah eventually that runs out that's the thing you can't do that 24 7 i feel like that's what he does he runs to basketball when his anything starts kicking in yeah just grab a basketball and go play and then all that goes away so which is fine exercise is good for your mental condition. But at the same time, you can't always do that. That's just not possible always. Eventually you sit down and you interact with the public. That's it.

So he comes out for the NBA draft that year after his junior year. So June 24, 2004, NBA draft. We've discussed this draft before. Jimmy, number one pick in the 2004 NBA draft draft is dwight howard your ass it is that's right get the fuck out of here we've only discussed this draft like seven times so you probably should get it by now i would say so we did sebastian i remembered something i learned god damn it at 42 i'm learning you retained information that's impressive and i like dwight howard so that's good so dwight howard in the league here he's number one overall amika okafor number two ben gordon number three not a real too stacked of a draft here uh well dang number seven

i forgot the suns drafted him anyway um they drafted drafted Luol Deng? Yes, they did. They did. Whoa. Apparently it was a quick trade here. Then you got Sebastian Telfair at 13, the former Mr. Kardashian, Chris Humphries at 14. A bunch of people. J.R. Smith, Jameer Nelson, his teammate. And then 24 overall, Delonte West is picked.

In the first round. First round by Boston. Okay. Number 24 overall right before Tony Allen. So there we go. And, yeah, not a bad draft for the Celtics. They pick up a couple decent players here. 2004-05 Celtics are 45-37. They finish first in their division and are quickly beaten in the first round of the playoffs.

Quickly dispatched. Quickly dispatched by the pacers so that's nice that team is like i said tony allen you got jesus like oh god tom googley atta was on that team at the end of his career at the celtics oh yeah that's the only people that can afford his fucking salary by jesus christ all that that bad son's deal that unbelievable son's deal everybody else had to pay oh they have like rafe lafrence walter mccarty just a podge podge of power forwards google yada lafrence and mccarty that's a hodgepodge of power forwards from that and antoine walker who was actually the star there starter he was the guy that's gary payton's on this team.

Oh, man. Yeah, post-Kendrick Perkins is on that team, which isn't he still playing, for Christ's sake? No, he's a commentator. Finally retired. He's a commentator, finally. I was a joke. But yeah, he was around forever, Kendrick Perkins. He played for, what, 40, 50 years, I think.

He looked like just somebody's like old uncle out there playing after a while somebody's old dad out there you know what i mean like jesus come on dad you're gonna have a heart attack you're 49 you can't run full court anymore it was a hell of a beard oh it's impressive it is impressive so his rookie season delante has a bunch of injuries and doesn't really play very much 39 games games, only starts seven. 13 minutes a game, doesn't do very much. Four and a half points a game. It's an injured rookie year, and so that's kind of how it is.

He says that going to the NBA was just like being thrown into the deep water is the way he put it. Okay. I can see that, yeah. Felt like he got thrown into the ocean and just tried to keep his doggy paddle going to keep himself afloat which seems exactly like it would be to me and in 2003 when he went in there were still huge nba stars yeah yeah there were still that were still playing there were still like legends i mean christ gary payton's

on his team for christ's sake right you know what i mean I mean? And LeBron just came out, and there's a lot happening. So he said, I basically wasn't as grown as I gave myself credit for, or as much as I wanted to be. As I gave myself credit for is a pretty funny way to put it. So Dimitri, his older brother, the junior, went with him to Boston. So he's not a junior, but he's got a junior. He latched himself to a junior to make sure that the behavior rubs off on him. And, you know, with the instability, I guess, of what is between his ears, it's nice that he's geographically that close to get back to mom.

It's not that far. If there's some sort of normalcy that he can latch on to, that he'll keep him on the rails and keen. If he was in Portland, that'd be tough. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or if he went somewhere like that, just far away from home.

Sacramento or some shit. Yeah. So, Jesus, that's tough for anybody. Sacramento. Right. A bad city and far from home. Fuck, that place sucks. Yeah.

No, it's California, but no, there's no ocean or nothing. No, it's hot. It's hot as fuck in here. It's real flat. How it is by the ocean ocean not like that at all add another i don't know 30 40 degrees and you got that about right yeah no it's no real reason to exist you're right you're right but it's the capital can't go nowhere now you know all these other cities have uh towers at their airport we don't have one because you don't need it you can see the planes coming from real far away there he is there's just a guy like this with his hand over his eyes

i see him makes a little whirly thing with his finger get it ready turn the lights on shit man so his brother dimitri moves with him but dimitri one day delonte comes home from practice and delete dimitri had left and gone back to Washington to get married on a whim. Just left. Took off. Hang on to it. I'm going to go get married. That's it.

He told Delonte, NBA lifestyle wasn't for me. Sorry. Got to go. I don't like living your life. It's crazy. I don't want to do it. I'm going to get married and settle down. I got a day job. I'm not even in the NBA and I have to live living your life. It's crazy. I don't want to do it. I'm going to get married and settle down. I got a day job.

I'm not even in the NBA, and I have to live this with you. I can't go to the strip club after like you do. I just can't. I can't be bothered with all the fun. I got to go. Yeah, and Delonte said that he respected him for it. He said, quote, best decision of his life to do that. Really?

Good for him. Yeah, I guess it worked out with the woman and everything. So his first year, Delonte makes $939,480. Goddamn nice for a 21-year-old kid. Not bad. That's awesome. Not bad at all. Yeah.

He said that he loved it. He thought it was great. He said it could, quote, slow up the process of growth, though, of you getting all that money. Because it makes you feel like you're right about everything. Well, it makes you feel like you're done. I mean, I did it. I got the money. I got the bag.

And he said that, quote, they said, quote, so what's the first thing you're going to get every video game you ever wanted? Yeah, he's living like a poor 14-year-old. He said NBA guys a lot of times, and a lot of players of every sport, they get money and they want to relive their youth now that they have money. Well, I never had money for video games, so I'm going to buy them. It's not even reliving youth. It's actually living it because you haven't yet. I wanted those sneakers.

Couldn't have those sneakers you didn't have those sneakers now dwight howard has literally a whole house for his sneakers yeah just like it's got thousands of pairs because now i can get them so fuck you that's i understand that you're it's it's dominating a thing that beat you you know what i mean it's turning it around and going now what yeah i have all the jordans now motherfucker. Now I have them. All the video games. It's weird. So you're going to get the video games. Then you get your video game.

Then you put your video game inside your car, which seems, again, pointless. He said, though, it's kind of lonely, and then a lot of players bring their old friends from everywhere in and posses, and now people do it. Basically, they have their friends they hire as assistants to like go go to the store for him and shit just to figure out a

way to get him a salary and he said you know give it quote two more years and you're two grown men sitting down and he's more like go get you some eggs and you can't get your own eggs because you have your friends and you're paying them and they're like what can i do i got to make i want need you to keep paying me so yeah you know what do you need so it's and he's like i can't get my own eggs i don't know how to do that it's so weird yeah well you're not even that it's like why can't i get my own eggs even if i want to but then this guy is what do i do with this guy so okay it's a lot of responsibility i don't think that's the worst of his problems, the egg guy. No, no, no. I think the egg man is.

The egg guy seems easy. That seems like the easiest thing he's got to deal with is. I am the egg man. It's the egg man. They really do. His mom coming in going, who are you? I am the egg man. I am the egg man.

He pays me to be the egg man. So 2005-06 Celtics. They go 33-49 under Doc Rivers. That's not good. No playoffs there. That sucks. This year plays in 71 games. Starts all 71.

Really? Yeah, absolutely. They moved him to point guard this year too. He was playing a lot of point guard. And he was a shooting guard the year before. They played him at the two, which 6'4 is small for a two. You've got to have some serious athleticism to be a 6'4, too. Well, I think what they were trying to do was have a fast shooting guard trying to run and gun then.

Still, that's got to be extra skilled. So he plays 34.1 minutes a game and this time 11.8 points. Not quite the same as college. 4.1 rebounds, 4.1 assists though. So that's good. This year he makes $1,010,040. Making a little dough on the side. Not bad at all.

Not on the side as his job. So 2006-07 Celtics, they go 24-58. Gets worse. Who is that? Doc again? Doc again. I think it's time to fire Doc Rivers, everybody. What do you think?

I think he's done here. Wow. So he moved to shooting guard this year. They moved him back to shooting guard, but didn't do very well there, so then they moved him back to point guard. Maybe this is why they suck, because Doc isn't a very good coach and moves people around too much when they're still trying to get

their feet wet in the league and never lets them get comfortable. They said that he had a game-winning buzzer beater against Charlotte on November 28, 2006, a game-tying three-pointer with four seconds remaining to send the game to overtime against the Nets. And these were both games that the Celtics eventually won.

One day against the Timberwolves, he had a career-high 31 points, made 12 free throws, and it was a double overtime win. So all 31 of his points came in the second half and two overtimes jesus he is clutch i'm telling you this he's not bad this year though he started toward the end of the season he's sharing minutes with uh with rondo because that's when he came okay so yeah and he remember when remember when rondo was like considered one of the best players in the league i loved that guy i was like this kid's gonna be unbelievable one day he was just terrible like yeah it's rare to see someone go from being that highly touted to being holy

shit this guy is a top three player top five or whatever the fuck you want to say and then just god i wouldn't have that guy as a backup he's so bad i think that's what he is now yeah and barely he's been holding on right i don't even know anymore that's what he is now. Yeah, and barely. He's been holding on. I don't even know anymore. That's what I'm saying. I think he, who the fuck knows. He'd be getting older by now. Jesus Christ.

Yeah. I would think. So, Delonte this year, 69 games, 47 starts, 32.2 minutes a game, 12.2 points, which is actually up from last year with less minutes. So, I guess that's good. And, you know, not too shabby here. So he's doing okay, 4.4 assists. He's okay.

$1,080,480. Nothing to sneeze at. Yeah, he's doing great. June 28, 2007, the Celtics trade him. Really? You know, because he was the problem. They kept knocking, traded him. They trade him with Jeff Green and Wally Zerbiak, Jesus Christ, Really? You know, because he was the problem. They kept Doc and traded him.

They trade him with Jeff Green and Wally Zerbiak, Jesus Christ, for a 2008 second-round draft pick. Oh, and a 2008 second-round draft pick to Seattle, when Seattle still had a team, for Ray Allen and Glenn Davis. Great trade. Yeah, not bad. That's an interesting trade. For Boston, that seems like a good trade. Yeah.

You traded. And he went to Seattle? Yeah, he goes to Seattle. Yeah, that's weird, right? I don't remember him in Seattle either. I don't remember Ray Allen in Seattle. Yeah, I'm trying to think if I remember Ray Allen in Seattle or not. I don't think I do.

I don't see him in that jersey at all. No. 2007, 2008 Supersonics. They go 20 and 62. Jesus, no wonder they moved fuck yeah that's brutal 20 and 62 pj carlissimo's their coach oh he sucks okay city was thrilled to have him fuck yeah that's ridiculous that's the biggest load of shit ever that they got rid of the fucking the team here so year, he only starts five games. He's playing point guard again at least. 6.8 points, though, not doing very much.

But he's only on the team temporarily. He's only on the team for about half the year because February 21, 2008, he's traded to Cleveland. That's why we don't remember him on there because he was only on there for like a few months, a couple months, half a season. Three-team trade. He's traded by the Sonics with Wally Zerbiak again. Oh, a few months, a couple months, half a season. Three-team trade. He's traded by the Sonics with Wally Zerbiak again. Oh, Wally and him.

I don't know why he's tied to Wally Zerbiak, if that's a contractual thing or what. To the Cavs, the Chicago Bulls trade Joe Smith and Ben Wallace. Those are two very high draft picks. I think Joe Smith was number one overall at one point, and Ben Wallace was very high. And a 2009 second-round draft pick to the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Bulls traded Adrian Griffin to the Supersonics. Cleveland traded Shannon Brown, Drew Gooden, Larry Hughes, Cedric Simmons to the Bulls. And the Cavs traded Donyell Marshall and Ira Neubel to the Supersonics.

A fucking mess of people just switched around. None of these people really all that, except for these are kind of... It's later in the career, too. Yeah, later in the career of a lot of these guys. Shannon Brown was good, but, I mean, in 1997. That feels like everybody balancing their cap. Yeah. Like, well, you can take on like four and then

we got this guy but you have a little room and we don't so that's what that feels like a shuffle some debt a cap shuffle that doesn't feel like these are the final pieces to the puzzle type shit you know what i mean that's not uh that's not you figuring out your retirement that's you balance transferring a credit card to another one yeah a lower payment. And go, okay. One more month. Lower interest rate. Okay. That's better.

So 2007, 2008, Cleveland here. Let's talk about them. This is the, they have Elgouskis, LeBron. They have LeBron. Let's just say that and keep it at that because that's really the important thing of the team here. So this team team they go 45 and 37 they beat washington in the first round of the playoffs and then lose in seven to boston in the uh conference semifinals so yeah not great here but let's see what happened with uh delonte

delonte for he contributes better for cleveland 10.3 points a game, 4.5 assists a game. Not too bad. Had pretty much the same thing in the playoffs, too. He had 10.8 points in the playoffs out of the 10.3. So pretty good. On April 27, 2008, he made a three-pointer with 5.4 seconds left in a playoff game against Washington. And it was a tie-breaking game winner here. And it took the series to 3-1 Cleveland, so it was a big shot.

Big old shot here. Shortly after Cleveland loses, big old rumor comes out here. We all remember this. Such a good rumor. This is one of the funniest sports rumors of all time. Of all time. All time. It was the head shaker of what the fuck is going

on here yeah this is weirder than jordan's kid fucking larsa pippen this is eve this is creepier i think and that's weird that is weird i'm sorry that is super weird i think it's pretty awesome that the whole family approves of it it's not michael jordan you don't think jordan no he said he didn't he came out and said he's not okay with this and larsa pippen's a fucking asshole he hates that shit no his son said that the whole family approves no matter what he said no whole family approves my fucking ass flip that shit around flip that shit yeah that would be oh my god well i mean which one you know what i mean make her a guy and the ex-husband of somebody then dating that the other woman's not good that would be christ almighty we'd be killing him he'd be put on a fucking and and

rightfully so that's the thing we would be going scumbag'd be put on a fucking, and rightfully so. That's the thing. We would be going scumbag, but everyone with Larsa Pippen's like, you go, girl. It's like, no, you're gross, girl. That's what that is. You gross, girl. That's disgusting. That's weird.

It's just creepy. Right? Am I wrong? I thought you, I was saying that his whole family approves of him dating her, but it's not that they're not approving of her behavior. You know what I mean? Because that is that's that's clear that she's doing something to hurt somebody else. That's not it's just just like attracted and in love with somebody.

That's that's behavior that's indicative of manipulation for sure. Right. It's sure as fuck creepy. I don't like it. I'll tell you that much yeah so this comes out that we hadn't even give what the rumor was no rumor is like we're talking the whole thing we're talking about is that delonte west was the rumor was that he was fucking lebron james's mom mom mom not girlfriend not sister, not cousin. Mom.

Mom. Don't anybody who you're friends with. Don't fuck their mom. General. No, that's and your co-workers. Mom. Yeah. Don't fuck your co-workers.

Mom. So he's approached with these allegations. Yeah. Delonte is. And he said, quote, number one, something like that never happened. I don't know where you got that from for a strong black woman like that for people to try to tear her down that's terrible that's terrible in so many ways that does not sound like no he never said no well he did number one something like

that never happened but that's not no no and he and he also talk about minimizing the thing you'd say did you kill that person and they would say i didn't hurt anybody right this is something like that never happened not i didn't fuck lebron james's mom are you crazy and then to go forward and build her up yeah at the end of it he's amazing tears in his eyes for a strong black woman like that for people to tear her down, man. That's terrible, man. That's terrible in so many ways. I won't be a party to it.

I'm going to go talk to her right now and make sure she's okay. You shouldn't say something about such an angel that has the sweetest kisses. The roundness of her ass, man. You could see it in her silhouette and it just brings a tear to my tear to my eye man i love her lips her lips so luscious i'll tell you fucking craig he might as well have said that so yeah it's so pillowy i'm gonna say grace at this point because it's pretty he's he's fought his way all the way to the nba really which is pretty fucking awesome that's great and now he's being linked with the the biggest star in the league's mom so that means he's relevant you know what i mean people are talking yeah he's relevant everyone yeah everyone

knows who delante west is at this moment in time so i'm gonna say grace he makes 1,889,760 dollars this year as well which is also my god the kids made almost five million dollars already and rumored to be banging the future scoring king's mom that's well i wonder if that lit a fire under him so i gotta make people forget and remember me for something else i win some titles man people just be talking about Delonte West fucking my mom the whole time. Shit. So, Wes said this is around the time when he's first diagnosed with bipolar disorder as well. This is when it comes to light, which would probably help him figure himself out a little bit here by a D.C. area specialist.

It was a preseason game in in 2008 he went off on a ref for that game and freaked out and he realized that he needed to chill the fuck out so he says that when he saw the doctor he'd been feeling depressed and he was having days when he was sad and tired and didn't want to get out of bed but then he said there was times when he just wanted to go do something he might just go out and buy a car or go to the mall and spend 25 grand or just go fucking needs to do something. So he said he didn't think the doctor kind of he said he didn't think the doctor took into consideration that such behavior isn't very unusual for a professional athlete with a big paycheck. Yeah. Sometimes you go spend 25 grand

you know yeah he says that he thinks that at that point he now think later on and in hindsight he thinks the doctor kind of misdiagnosed that as manicness whereas that's just professional athletism no no doc being a complete tool that wastes your money like a fucking idiot that's just being an athlete that has nothing to do with illness you're not reckless yeah the whole league's bipolar then is what you're telling me because that's just what we do so he said that he doesn't think he took that into consideration so he didn't think he was bipolar he just thought he was suffering a temporary bout of depression not even exhibiting symptoms of a chronic disorder. So he realized he had a problem.

He went to the doctor. The doctor told him what the problem was, and he said, nah, I don't believe you. That ain't it. That's not it. I think you missed. That's smart there. So he left the Cavaliers for two weeks and went back to home, to Washington, which is always good to go home, as we know, for the crime and sports rules. He sought counseling, started taking medication,

and he separated. He got married sometime in here, by the way. Really? That's the other thing, yeah. He's going to separate from his wife. They got married and they got separated in two weeks. It was very quick. So he said, quote, the ugly head started to show itself again.

It's been haunting me my whole life. Self-destructive behavior. That'll do it. But September 12, 2008, he signs a three-year deal worth $12.7 million. That'll make you feel better. With the Cavs, right? Yep, with the Cavs. So he's going to be moved to

the starting two the starting shooting guard and he's all excited so ready to go here is our why wouldn't you be you make four million a year and with a good team they go 66 and 16 this year which is dominant that's fucking great that's amazing they almost the record for christ's sake it's damn close so they they sweep detroit in the first round of the playoffs they sweep atlanta in the second round of the playoffs i mean they're a juggernaut here then they lose to orlando in six oh no remember that there's like the kind of no-name orlando team that was just kind of well they had somehow beating people yeah yeah but it was but it wasn't like this they weren't considered a juggernaut at all. They don't have LeBron James.

Yeah, exactly. But they put it together. So Cleveland this year, or for him, I mean, Delante starts all 64 games he plays, except for the couple weeks he had to go away. 11.7 points a game, 3.5 assists, 3.5 rebounds. What is it? 3.2 rebounds. A steal and a half a game.

Not bad. Not bad. Pretty damn good. 13.8 in the playoffs point-wise, so pretty good. He makes $3,850,000 this year. Hell yeah. Not bad. July 2009 is when he marries his high school sweetheart.

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He marries her. Her name's Kimberly. College sweetheart. They get married. That's July. September 17, 2009. He gets pulled over and has some guns, we'll just say. Let's talk about this.

Okay. This is fucking interesting pulls him over on the beltway there he is found carrying three loaded guns oh for some reason that seems like too much right yeah unless you're on the SWAT team that's probably too many so he Jesus he's traveling north on the beltway on a cam on a can-am spider one of the three-wheeled crazy he has these he has three guns in a can-am spider that's a motorcycle it's a three-wheeler that you ride on the road the giant three-wheeler one of those with with two seats side by side each but like all his guns have to be in that seat or they're on his person that's the stupid part yeah we'll

talk all about this yeah and while he's traveling with three loaded guns yeah on a ridiculous mode of transportation right he cuts off a canine officer for prince george's oh fantastic which is again try not to cut cops off that's probably not good so the cop pulls him over for making an unsafe lane change no directional or anything like that and when the cop approached the vehicle or motorcycle or whatever the fuck this thing is this stupid conveyance yeah his conveyance west immediately told him i have a handgun on my waistband which is actually good you're supposed to do that if you have a handgun on your waistband don't be

don't grab for it to pull it out but i got this gun. You'll get shot like that. Don't do that. Tell them about it. So he does that. So the cop then calls for backup so he can search the car there. So he ends up finding three guns. He's got a loaded Beretta 9mm in his waistband. Then he's got a Ruger.357 Magnum strapped to his leg. That's a hand cannon. Why the fuck isum strapped to his leg. That's a hand cannon.

Why the fuck is that strapped to your leg? That goes mid-calf to ankle. That's a big gun. That's a hammer. That's a big gun, man. Then he had a shotgun in a guitar case slung over his back. What are you, fucking El Mariachi? What is happening here right now? That's what this is. Have you seen that movie from back why does he have that he thinks he's fucking el mariachi that's all i can

come up with because why else would you have a shotgun and a guitar case slung over your back that's ridiculous all three of the guns are on his person dude unbelievable he's like the fucking guy in uh raising aing Arizona on the motorcycle. That's who he is. Does he have grenades to his chest, too? Yeah. A bandolier of grenades. He was on his way to pick them up, I feel like, and then he was going to drive around after that.

Maybe he thought it was post-apocalypse and it was like Mad Max times. He lost his fucking mind. We don't know. Go get my grenades. I just had them cleaned. Oh, I just had them shined. I had my guy. He was done getting me eggs. He had nothing to do. I told him, shine my grenades i had i just had them cleaned oh i just i just had them shine i had my guy he was done getting me eggs he had nothing to do i told him shine my grenades hey egg man hey egg man come here a minute so police charged him with two criminal counts of

carrying a handgun for the ruger and the beretta and issued him a traffic citation for driving in in excess of reasonable and prudent speed prudentudent and Delonte West don't go well together, those words at all. You can't. Never prudent. Right. The word prudent implies taking inventory of a situation and applying yourself to it appropriately. If you can't take inventory, how's he going to appraise where he's supposed to be at? In excess of reasonable and prudent speed.

What is that? Never prudent, never reasonable. So that's – you could just give him a ticket saying your life is not prudent or reasonable. But the court records show that they said that he was within his rights to carry the shotgun. I don't know if a guitar case is the appropriate way to do it. It's a fascinating way to do it. It's interesting. It seems bouncing around on a motorcycle in a guitar case

doesn't seem like a safe place for a loaded shotgun. Am I wrong? Not necessarily. Yeah, no. I don't think you're wrong. I do agree that the shotgun is likely the least, like... Oh, illegal. What is that? The least illegal least like. Oh, illegal. What is that?

The least illegal probably. Yeah. Yeah. It's the most appropriate weapon to carry is like, because there's only a couple shots. It's not like. I guess. Yeah. Yeah.

But they're pretty. Pretty stout. Pretty stout shots. So is the.357 strapped. It was like that. That's crazy. That's a lot. They said it wasn't clear why he was so heavily armed at the time, number one.

Because that's not like he didn't have them in a box or something. They're on him, ready for action here. Or why he was traveling alone at 10 o'clock at night cutting police officers off either. There's really no explanation for any of it. He's armed like an undercover FBI agent. Yeah, that's what the fuck now his father said him and his father are going to have two different accounts of why he had guns on him oh his father said quote this is a wild quote all i can say is delonte was looking behind his back and protecting

himself okay he said his son was looking out both for specific people and because he was generally concerned about his well-being being a high-profile athlete so then they said well is there anybody who might be targeting him and he wouldn't say he declined to say he said quote quote bottom line is there's a lot of not too nice people out there okay one of them's name is uh lebron james and he's still pissed he's still mad yeah he's you never know if he's gonna come after you they said he was very cooperative with the police the entire time that'll go away and you know in years here he'll be less frustrated yeah so they arrest him sees his guns and his motorcycle he's released from jail on personal recognizance and all of that shit cleveland general manager danny ferry said quote we are aware of the situation and take this matter very seriously the the silver

quote just say just say silver silver you know what i'm gonna to say. I'm aware. We're monitoring it. We're very concerned about it and blah, blah, blah. And if something else happens in the next two months, you'll never hear about it again from us. Have a good one. Bye. I'll bet the last interaction with the media and a sports figure, whatever they said, I'll bet it applies here, too. Yes. He said, we have been in communication with delante and his family we're gathering more

information and will not have further comment until the appropriate time which is when you stop asking me about it and then we'll just forget it ever happened there's never a follow-up comment to this by the way ever and if there is we'll run that comment on page 37 no you'll never hear about it yeah he recently had gotten married and purchased a $1.05 million home in Fort Washington. He had missed several games for Cleveland with his broken wrist the year before, but they said, you know, they're expecting him to be a big contributor this year again. Here's his account of what happened. Oh, boy.

Yeah. He said, first of all, he's an avid outdoorsman. Okay. Which is no reason to have a fucking 357 on your leg and a nine mil i don't i'm not a hunter yeah but i've seen people in the woods and stuff if you go into like dicks into the hunting section not a lot of handguns on leg holsters there for shooting deer it's not usually the way that happens yeah and avid outdoorsman you're driving a motorcycle that is equipped only for the street it's not going anywhere you're driving a motorcycle in the city on the highway

with all these guns and usually hunters don't usually take their weaponry out in guitar cases either right not a lot of fender holsters for for winchester not a lot of them so this is amazing he said he likes to hunt and fish in the backwoods of virginia but you know he said he also though he he said that he likes guns because he can they were talking about that he can afford them that's why he likes guns and you know he likes to buy cars and clothes and things that he likes yeah he likes guns so why not he said that he likes. A lot of things, yeah. And he likes guns. So why not? He said that he returned to his home in Maryland after the season, and he had to try to find a good place to store his weapons.

So he said, I know where to – he said, I see them more as collector's items is what they are. Okay. Yeah, you know, like a – They rarely lose value. That's a good point. Mickey Mantle signed baseball. You know, it's the same thing. He said, so he chose his recording studio,

because of course he had a recording studio built into his home. Sure does, yeah. So it's in his fully furnished basement recording studio. He said it's his sanctuary. No kids allowed down there. None of that shit. You know, this is his area. So he said that would be the perfect spot to keep them.

And he said it was totally fine. Everything was great until that night when he said he felt super tired. So he went to bed early. He took his nightly dose of Seroquel, which is a drug that treats bipolar disorder, and he gets into bed. So after he falls asleep asleep he said he's a just woken up by shouting he said it just as his wife comes in shouting well the way he put it quote ma dukes came running upstairs into my room cursing me i love it i love it she's saying saying she wanted all these motherfuckers out of my house. I came to like, what's going on?

I was already on my Seroquel trip. Okay. A few of my cats had found some stuff in the studio and they were living the whole gangster life thing. Guns in the air and this and that. He had his friends over and his wife walked down to the basement and saw his friends playing with guns while he's asleep. Everything and everybody's got to go.

Motherfuckers out of my house. You mean the guns or the people? Both. Everybody. You too. Get on your motorcycle. And he said, quote, and I said, oh, my God, what the fuck are y'all doing in here? Y'all got to go.

Mama ain't on that shit. Now, if mama ain't on that shit. None of us are on that shit. You motherfuckers got to go. Mama ain't on that shit. Now, if mama ain't on that shit. None of us are on that shit. You motherfuckers got to go. That's the way it works. Yeah. He said, kids are running around upstairs. It's time to go.

So, yeah, he's all, you know, whatever. So he said he was all awake now from the commotion, obviously, from all the chaos going on. So he said, you know what I'll do? I should just relocate these guns right now at night. I'll just move them to an empty house that I own that's pretty close by. On that Seroquel trip. On my Seroquel trip, yeah, which he doesn't get charged for anything like that, I guess. There's no – it's not disabled.

You know what I'm talking about. It's not something that you're impaired driving. It's not an impaired – yeah, driving. It's not an impaired. Yeah, exactly. I guess not. I don't know. If they did, the cops missed that one, I guess. Maybe they were distracted by all the guns.

So he said all of his other vehicles were blocked in by guests' cars. Even though he just told everyone to get the fuck out. Their cars are still there, apparently. And he said it was just going to be a short trip going back and forth. So he just haphazardly loaded up on his on his motorcycle there on his can-am and put the weapons in quote a velcro type bag he said not a desperado hard case gun shooting out of the side type of case that's what he said quote unquote and set off said, so I'm on the beltway cruising.

He said, soon as I soon I start realizing I'm dozing in and out. This isn't good. That's Seroquel, right? I guess. I'm heavily armed on a fucking kind of three wheel. Let me dozy. Let me get a little sleepy sleeps. Yeah.

He said, I opened my eyes and I went from this lane to that. I'm swerving. And by the time I wake up, I'm about three exits past my exit. Oh, my God. He was in a complete. He was basically out for three exits. At least because he's three exits past it. So he didn't even know it was coming up.

Oh, my God. He said, there's this truck flying beside me he said and i'm scared to death yeah so i seen an officer coming up and i try to flag him down why why are you flagging him down someone's passing me you don't get it i'm on the highway and fucked up hi i'm trying to lead I'm on the highway and fucked up. Hi. I'm trying to lead. He said, I pulled up.

I pull up next to him. He slows down and I get up in front of him. I tell the officer I'm not functioning well and I'm transporting weapons. Oh, my. The rest of the story is what it is. He pulled over a cop in his mind, but the cop said he just fucking cut him off and was like, what the fuck is this guy doing? In Dalante's mind, he was communicating with the cop, telling him things, and the cop was like, here's some crazy fuck cut me off. Holy shit. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

And if you walk up to someone who's driving erratically and basically tried to pull you over, which we've only had one other time in crime and sports, I believe. Someone tried to pull the cop over and go, I'm fucked up right now. You got to help me. And then he says, I'm not functioning well and I'm transporting weapons. You're asking for a real uncomfortable confrontation. I'm shocked that they didn't, I guess, inquire more about what, why are we not functioning well? Yeah, what's mentally. I don't know, DUI issued? Yeah, I guess that's what about what, why are we not functioning well?

Like, yeah, what's issued? Yeah, I guess I guess he's telling him, but he's not slurring his speech. And if his eyes looked okay, the cop would be like,

okay, he seems physically okay. Maybe he's just having a mental breakdown. The man just woke up from a two mile nap. That's yeah. Yeah. He doesn't even know. He's got to be groggy.

How long was your nap? About six exits? Oh, that's not, okay. I woke up three exits past my exit. Didn't even know mine was coming up. Shit. He said, the rest of the story is what it is. I'm not proud of it, but it looks way worse than it was. No, it doesn't.

I think the way he described it was worse than the way the cops described it. What he just described me i'm way more worried about him than if he just had a bunch of weapons on him driving around because he was worried people would jack him right the cops just said we pulled him over on a on a i mean a dangerous vehicle to be transporting three weapons but he's telling me i was unalert i was not aware of what i was what i was doing yeah with weapons that's even that's so frightening that's terrifying that's what i mean anytime you have weapons you should be hyper alert yeah yeah and granted in that vehicle he's probably going to get more hurt than me if

he hits me but oh i'm sure he's gonna fly off somewhere yeah who's to say where that shotgun goes and if if or if it doesn't discharge when it lands there? Oh, shit. So, yeah, he said, I was already two years with a contract with Cleveland. And he said, then I got into the incident and no teams wanted to even deal with me. I got written off as some crazy gun-toting terrorist or something of that sort. From there, it had nothing to do with what I did on the basketball court. Okay. Okay.

Within a couple of weeks, his wife divorces him. Really? After that. Yeah, she's had enough. Super not on that shit. Mama ain't on that shit. He's got a really – it's on now, yeah. So 2009, 2010, Cleveland 61-21.

They beat the Bulls in the first round of the playoffs and lose in sixth to the Celtics there. Celtics are their kryptonite, absolutely. So this is again this year. By the way, did you know that Shaq was on? Do you remember Shaq being on the Cavs? Wait, on the Cavs? I completely forgot that Shaquille O'Neal wore a Cleveland Cavaliers jersey for an entire fucking season. That can't be true. I swear to God, the 2009-2010 season, Shaquille O'Neal played for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

That is shocking. That's when LeBron was trying to add those, well, let's get somebody else. Let's add a piece and we'll make it. trying to add those well let's get somebody else let's add a piece and we'll make it uh sebastian telfer another another alumnus here there so doesn't quite work out though but delonte let's see what he did 8.8 points a game jesus he's a shooting guard now by the way not a point guard anymore 8.8 points 3.3 assists not great here and 0.9 steals. I think that hurt him. I think that incident messed him up a little bit here. It feels like it.

Now, in 2014, there's a Slate.com article here in 2014 talking about this, and it says, quote, When West erupted in anger at a reporter early in the 2009-2010 season, they said that they windhorsed one of the reporters and others left it out of their stories, partly, he says, out of sensitivity for what West was dealing with. Though a course of staying mum also coincided with the team's interest

in keeping negative incidents out of the papers. They said Scott Robb, the author of the anti-LeBron James manifesto, the whore of Akron. What? Jesus Christ. Have you ever been to Cleveland, people? If you haven't, you'd go, gee, if I had $100 million, would I live here?

Fuck no. It would be everybody's answer to that. No. I would go somewhere better. Now, the way he did it was douchey. I'm taking my talents to South Beach. It was douchey. But still, this is you should understand it.

You goddamn right. The windows in your nice hotels are just curtains. There's no window. I've been fucking the governor of Ohio probably doesn't live in Ohio because he can. You know, it's like this place is terrible. I'm sorry. We actually did. Didn't we do a show under his office?

Was that the governor or the mayor? I think it was the governor. That was a state. Columbus. It was in Columbus. That's a state building. It's in Columbus. I think that's what it was.

That's where they're at. Yeah, there's the theater down below. Not in Cleveland. Not in Cleveland. So this guy, quote, was later critical of those reporters who chose not to speak up about west's locker room blow up writing in deadspin rob flatly declared that west had been quote off his meds which is really a no yeah just say that flippant uh thing to say bullshit dismissive you got to explain that that's yeah that's kind of ridiculous here they said though in this article i'm just

reading from slate.com here rob though is a model article, I'm just reading from Slate.com here, Rob, though, is a model of sensitivity compared to Peter Vesey, who asked his New York Post readers to, quote, consider the fact that West has depression problems and suffers from mental illness. Well, that's actually fine. That's just stating facts. Quote, Vesey continued idiotically, what prevents him from concealing weapons in his Cavaliers workout bag and sneaking them into the arena or practice complex and on a particularly moody blues day, blasting everybody in sight.

Okay, you definitely took, that's a little, wow. Talk about having an inch and taking fucking 20 miles. That was ridiculous. an inch and taking fucking 20 miles that was ridiculous he's got depression so what's to stop him from coming in with his guns and taking out the entire cleveland cavaliers team shooting everybody in sight yeah what a wild uh jump conclusion what you're right sir dude that's that's what who does he write for the new york post that's why the new york post is fucking homeless people's toilet paper it's trash it's a fucking it's a very it's definitely coming from a point of view. Let's just put it that way. So Wall Street people use to keep the rain off their head and then they throw it in the trash as they enter a building so they don't have to carry an umbrella.

And it's where construction workers get their news. So, yeah, that's explains a lot yeah exactly you see i knew it it's just stuff to make people angry yeah he said quote um this is delonte west what he says about it quote being a little older now and looking back you see things would have been a little different if i just told them what was really bothering me i don't think that i'm bipolar that medicine you're giving me i don't need that this is what's bothering me this is why i'm upset this is why i cry at night time but i didn't know how to say that okay i mean i don't know if he's misdiagnosed that happens but you're not often the best person to diagnose yourself that's the problem that's why doctors generally go to other doctors because

they're not right self-diagnosis is the the wonder if he's seeing a psychiatrist at this time. Well, yeah, he said he's just mad that he wasn't, he didn't assert himself more and tell the doctor what was wrong with him rather than have the doctor tell him. Okay. So this article continues speaking with West on the phone last fall.

I mentioned that an increasing number of players, increasing number of teams were bringing in psychologists and psychiatrists to work with players. I guess everybody crazy now huh he quipped maybe i'm not the only one then maybe there's something to that i think everybody has there's so much pressure inherent in that that you would help to talk to somebody once in a while in professional sports i can't imagine the pressure's sick yeah i got enough and i've never played a fucking down no no that's what i feel like i feel like tons of every week is like jesus christ i feel so much pressure to not suck so yeah it's got to be way worse if they're gonna have when we're done there's not hour-long

shows dedicated to analyzing what we just did and breaking it down for fucking three hours and then skip bail is talking about arguing with a black guy about it. Like, that doesn't happen. We're not competing for a ring at the end of this. No, no. So, God, I hate Skip Bayless still. I love that, by the way, they can't find, they're like trying to find someone. They're like, is there any black guy who will argue with this asshole?

Anybody. But, like, that won't just, like, reach over and crack him in the fucking nose. Because I'm sure there's been eight of them, like, I'll whoop his ass when he's being a fucking asshole. No, no, that won't work. And he'll show up contractually every day without fail, no matter what he says. Yes.

No, that person doesn't exist. I want, the matchup I want is, I want Skip Bayless and Charles Barkley. Because I feel like that would be, what, two episodes before Barkley be beating the living shit out of him in the studio and the show would be over and i would be very satisfied with the outcome and i go that's better okay back to tnt with you chuck chuck's arrested yeah he'd be a skip you got about two seconds before i come over there and punch you in your fucking mouth and skip would say something else oh yeah chuck well let me and then the next thing you know 400 pounds of barkley would be all over him i would love that oh well you're not gonna appreciate this at all skip

yeah exactly so i'ma whoop you however he talks yeah southern southern accent there southern whoopings that's what he does out i know that whooping yeah oh absolutely so then he says delante after he said maybe there's something to that, he said, quote, maybe it's not a crazy thing. Maybe it's just a highly intense, stressful type of job that puts a lot of pressure on guys to perform and play. Yeah. And then the article says, then there's the stress that pro sports can put on families

and various outside pressures that athletes deal with. And he says, guys need somebody to talk to that. I agree with. Yes, you don't have to be, it would just help this year. He makes 4,254,250 dollars. Not too shabby.

July 16th, 2010. He pleads guilty to weapons charges. So there's no kind of no choice with that one. He said a lot. And yeah, so he pleads guilty to two weapons charges. So there's kind of no choice with that one. He said a lot. Yeah. So he pleads guilty to two weapons charges, and he is sentenced to, you, sir, a fuck off, eight months of home detention.

Wow. He's going to lose his mind in there. Two months of probation and 40 hours of community service. Okay. Part of a plea bargain, and it will allow him to play the nba season yeah that's the question so he was originally charged with six weapons offenses and two traffic violations he pleaded guilty to carrying a dangerous weapon which was also the eight inch bowie knife he had on him that was the other he had a rambo knife on him also just in case

the fucking knife too, you never know. Once you run out of ammo, you're going to have to start stabbing at that point. Sometimes serial murders only have that Bowie knife. They don't have anything else. You think about it. He's only got a couple of shots in the shotgun. You figure, what, six in the fucking.357? He might have eight.

We don't know. Maybe eight. Beretta's got 13 minimum 13 minimum 13 it's a beretta yeah you're right so i mean he's gonna run out of shots eventually he gotta have that giant knife gotta have that knife you never know so and illegally transporting a handgun his attorney said that he was taking the weapons from his mother's home to his house which is not what he said at all to anybody else and he was stopped by an officer which was just a couple miles from either home it was in between so there you go he had also by the way a hundred shotgun rounds on him a hundred thing wasn't

running out for a while a hundred in the whole guitar case just a shotgun and it would just be poured out it would look he used shotgun shells like packing peanuts like packing peanuts yeah i was like those things i was making the those things he's shipping it like amazon wow he said that he felt remorse he told the course the court he said i want you to know how apologetic i am to you and all the other professionals in here who are who do the right thing. What the fuck? That's not what you say to the judge.

He says that he often speaks to Washington area youth who've been in trouble. He says, I'm able to share my experiences with them. I'm able to relate to them. If I never dribble a basketball again, I think I found my calling. They were like, you're getting probation. What are you talking about? You're fine. You didn't kill someone. Take this bracelet with you on getting like probation. What are you talking about? You're fine. You didn't kill someone.

Take this bracelet with you on your way out. That's all we care about. OJ wasn't this fucking, you know, remorseful. This is crazy. So he he's he they typically ask for a year in jail for defendants convicted of this. The judge is usually sentenced to people with no prior convictions to probation or home detention. So they said this is about normal he's also ordered to undergo counseling and alcohol screening and he will be

in unsupervised probation for two years so don't get arrested stupid is what that is july 26 2010 traded to minnesota oh yes with sebastian telfair forair for Ryan Hollins and Ramon Sessions and a draft pick. Okay. About a week later, he's waived by the Timberwolves. No. So they don't want him. September 1st, 2010, signed by Boston, though, again. Okay.

Going back to Boston here. Coach of Boston now, by the way. Dee Brown? Doc Rivers. What? He turned them around. he did turn them around okay after that because they went downhill and then they came back again they're 56 and 26 this year and they are uh they lose in the second round of the playoffs they swept the knicks of course

but then they lose to the heat in five so yeah that's how that goes this on this team ray allen yeah there you go kevin garnett. All these guys. Shaq, by the way. Yeah, I knew. Wow. After Cleveland. Yep. After Cleveland. Shaq and Jermaine O'Neal there. Both the O'Neals are there, which is interesting. No kidding. Yeah. Rajon Rondo, Nate Robinson

with his little Duncan ass over here. Paul Pierce. Kendrick Perkins still. It's a good team. That's a real good... That's why they went to the... Jesus. They got beat by Miami, who had LeBron. Yeah. They had a whole thing going on down there. So West was suspended the first 10 games of the season following the guilty plea. The league suspended him.

He only averages 5.6 points a game this year, 2.7 assists. So he's not really doing much. He's got to be backing up Rondo, right? Yeah, yeah, definitely. He makes $1,069,509, which is still okay. Now there's a lockout after the season here, right? This is the lockout year. It has to be.

After the thing, because there's the Delonte West lockout timeline is what we have here. Okay. Okay, July 22, 2011. All all right here we go he's real bored he's got shit to do here so he leaks some of his unreleased mixtape titled lockout and the songs are he just puts out this song he puts out these songs and he he's yeah i mean obviously here's some one a lyrical sample make your ass freeze sub zeros there you go that's one of the lyrics of here i guess that's like a mortal combat reference mortal or the yeah or the fridges that rich people have either one both of those things so make your ass freeze sub Sub-Zero's. Sub-Zero's. So they said that they're actually, the media basically said these weren't as bad as a lot of rappers, basically.

There's worse. It could be worse, is what they generally say. We've heard Kobe's album. It's worse. People have sent us Kobe's album. Not good. Not good. Not good.

A.I.'s is even worse. Oh, man. The Delonte West, here we go august 12th 2011 he finds he's unable to travel overseas to play due to his prior arrest they're not allowed yep so yeah there's i guess eastern europe is where he was looking and uh he had a ball over there but they won't let him play so now he's like fuck how am i supposed to make money so he said that he applied for a job at this point august 17 2011 do you remember where and applied for a job home depot oh yeah he applied for a job at home depot which is very interesting he said that he's he got made fun of

a lot for that too yeah and uh we don't know if he was bored or broke or what the fuck what deal was but he was at home depot somebody like that made a joke about if he's not working he could go stand in the parking lot at home depot and he probably missed the parking lot part and he's like all right i'll go do that he said that he was broke and applied for a job at home depot he tweeted that yeah Yeah. He said, quote, it's official. Pride to the side, number two. Pride to the side. Just filled out an application at Home Depot.

Lockout ain't a game. Okay. I don't know how he's going to make enough money to pay a mortgage on a million dollar house from fucking first week at Home Depot here. So he's also on probation and everything else. He said, can't even get that overseas money. Judge says it's a no-go on leaving the country. And then he said also at one

point, quote, broke down in the ATM line. 25 cars behind me and I already reached my daily limit. I'm broke and my car's broke. Where's my therapist? He didn't have a mental breakdown. His car literally broke down.

His car broke down and he already reached his daily limit of, I guess, withdrawal. So he said that he's obviously having a bit of an issue here. August 22, 2011, he said that he also wants to work at BJ's, which is a warehouse like a costco type of thing on the east coast yeah we have that or is it the it's a big it's a big warehouse store not the old big boys bjs no east coast it's a warehouse store it's fucking yeah it's right here i had there's we have a membership to one of these so Those were JB's, wasn't it? Yes. Yeah, JB's, huh? JB's was one of those shitty diners.

Yeah, you're right. He said he wanted to sell knives. Oh. I don't know why he wants to sell knives, but he's very interested in selling knives. I love them. He says that maybe he can sell knives at Sam's Club also is a possibility. So he wants to be a Sunday sample guy. Yeah, he wants to do knife things like that.

Yeah, so he said that he applied for a job. He said, quote, he said, you don't want to put all your eggs in one basket, you know, and who knows. I don't have an Eggman anymore. Oh, my egg guys, my Eggman's gone. I'm broke. Then he said, I might actually have to work with Sam's Club. Not work with, it's work for at that point. Yeah, you don't work with. That's a way to improve your life around your friends.

Musicians work with people. Important people work with people. People who work at Sam's Club work for Sam's Club. That's how that shit works. He said, I might have to work with Sam's Club, BJ's, selling knives. That's pretty cool, too. I get a microphone and everything to do the demonstration. Yeah.

Holy shit. This is what he needs, knives. So he said, wow, quote, I would get the customers. Apparently, he sold knives at Costco for a minute. Yeah. And he said, quote, I would get the customers. Apparently, he sold knives at Costco for a minute. Yeah. And he said, quote, I would get the customers. I would say, I'm D. West from the Celtics. Tell people to come back to a knife display, and my brother would chop up tomatoes and stuff and show them how sharp the knives are.

Anything I could do, man. At the same time, ain't no shame. Same way I'm smiling now and enjoying life i was doing the same thing then moving knives that's right his brother dimitri said quote we were taught how to get in and grind and grind it out that's why he's playing with his fingers taped up right now because he cut himself on the knives hilarious that is that's why you why you probably shouldn't play with knives if you're an NBA player. So September 21st, 2011. This is from slam online dot com. He's saying that now he's been misunderstood as the thing here. Oh, that's what's going on. Yeah, that's that's what's up here.

He said this is amazing. Quote, bespectacled eyes softly studying the sunwashed Lincoln Memorial in front of him, besuited back, turn toward the towering Washington Monument behind him. A smile signifying freedom crosses Delonte West's lips as if contagious spreads to all of us in his vicinity. Uh-huh. Okay. This is fucking interesting. Apparently, quote, supreme symbols of America, the memorial and monument aren't the cause of our sense of liberation. No, we felt this way since the chauffeur pulled up the gravel driveway outside his house in Fort Washington, Maryland, earlier this July morning.

And West, myself, a photographer and friends and family members piled into the back of the black Escalade. A lot of people don't know this. This is West, by the way. Quote, a lot of people don't know this this is west by the way quote a lot of people don't know this but all of last year i was on house arrest no everyone knew that it was in the newspapers we all know he said when i wasn't in the arena i had an ankle bracelet monitor on right after the game they put it right back on and i have to go straight right back home yeah that's that's what house arrest is yeah that's right i guess they didn't know what he thought because he didn't have to wear it on the court. Right.

So that's good. He didn't have to do a crossover wearing one. No shit. They said on a daily basis he had to phone in his whereabouts four times, even in the middle of the night. He said that his friend said, quote, it didn't change D, but it did help him mature some. This is his childhood friend and business manager, which means he hasn't matured at all not at all unless your childhood friend happens to be a top tier business manager separately and you hire him yeah otherwise you say i mean i don't need eggs right now i guess you could manage my fucking affairs and then he wonders why he's selling knives at costco

gee i don't know make sure my my bracelet goes back on yeah Yeah. What the fuck? Oh, my God. Jesus fucking Christ. He said it helped him focus his energy on what mattered. They said, wow, that's very interesting. So, fuck, man. He's not allowed to do anything. He says that's been hard. He's not allowed to leave his hotel room on the road. He said, when I broke my wrist, they took me straight to the hospital.

And he said, I got into trouble because I didn't call and let them know I was going to the hospital. They said, if something happens on the way to the hospital, I don't know where you're at, so you better call in advance next time. That's how they was on me. Jesus Christ. Yeah. He didn't know. They just took him to the hospital.

He broke his fucking wrist. So he finally, yeah, he got his bracelet removed. I think now he's off probation. Great. So he's very, very excited here. Sure. So that's his Uncle Rudy. We'll put Uncle Rudy into the picture.

He said, quote, you haven't heard of him shooting or stabbing nobody. If you want to permanently mark him for what he did, all you have to do is look at your own. He's not the first, and he won't be the last to make a mistake. Glass houses, motherfuckers that's right so they said yeah this is uh he said quote this is what delante after we win a game i hit the winner or after we win a game and i hit the winner and everyone is screaming my name i should feel good but i might be down in the slums i might have to go to the bathroom and say to myself d snap out of it come on on, baby. Smile. Life's good. Which a lot of people have that even if they have no mental illness.

They need to, hey, asshole, get your shit together. That's just something that, you know, I don't know. Maybe I only think that because I have that. So I don't know. Maybe everyone doesn't feel like that. I never thought of it that way. Hitting the game winner and then go crying yourself. That's crazy.

Hey, everybody, you do something really good and exciting and not feel great afterwards because you don't feel like it was as good as it could have been because that's how I feel every day. I feel like that's how it was. I don't know if – I guess as an athlete and when you play, that's what you play for, the win. And when you're responsible for the win that's got to feel great and it's not it's not great that's that's no it's so difficult

that has to be tough to deal with i'm not sure so they said that um you know his coach handled him very well he said a lot of the fans would mess with him though he said quote they put it all in one sentence delante's riding a motorcycle's bipolar. And that's why he missed that shot, period. Because he's riding a motorcycle and he's bipolar. So he can't shoot now. Okay. Yeah, that's not good. This article says the months.

That's a good one. Delonte's riding a motorcycle and he's bipolar. And that's why he missed the shot, period. It's not very succinct as a heckle, I would say. Ya bum. Ya lousy bum. This article goes on to say,

the monsoon of criticism exacerbated his problems, which partly explains why he missed games and shunned the media during the final season with the Cavs. Now, though, after seeking guidance from a circle of doctors and lawyers, he's ready to own his condition. He said, quote, we're going, oh, this is his friend here, we're going through the process of looking at different bipolar foundations to see which one will be a perfect fit. This is going to make a major impact for other people suffering from it.

It's going to remind people that we're all still human beings. So, yeah, they said that this isn't going to help his career probably, but he thinks that maybe this will help other people. And that's what's important. He says, quote, parents come to me and say, thank you. My son's bipolar and nobody understands him. And it just means so much for you to speak on it. I hear that from so many people, or from so much people, it's unreal. Not many. So much people. Much. So much people.

So they talk about it. He says, quote, oh yeah, somebody asks him, he goes to a thing here, okay, drops him off at a day camp that he's doing,

okay, and they say that they introduce him and a boy asks him, do you know any other basketball players? This is a small little, like a five-year-old. And he says, you know any other basketball players this is a small little like a five-year-old and he says i know too many basketball players and then he walks over and he says that you know do you play and the kid says yeah and he says well now i know another basketball player makes the kid feel good he said that he he shook the kid's hand and he said see

this hand here that hand has shook with michael jordan leron James, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, and now it's shaken yours too. That's a cool thing to say to a little kid. A little kid would think that was cool. Yeah. They said Delonte would do anything for a random child. That's what Uncle Rudy says. Delonte would be the last one to the bus if he has autographs to sign. He'll wait till the very last kid is content.

Yeah. He said at the end of the day this is his younger sister at the end of the day delante would take his life for you well that seems a bit much there jesus by the way he paid for full tuition for his sister to graduate from college she went to college off on him so that was nice of him to do he seems like a very nice guy he's not not a mean-spirited person. No. He's not abusive. He's his own worst enemy. By far, yeah.

He is never prudent, never reasonable, was what he said before, right? That's what it is. So as the sun, this is from the article, as the sun begins to set, Delonte tells everyone to follow him to his backyard, then down a short path that leads to a bank of the Potomac River. As we sit there, studying the water, studying his life, West says he can see

the tides turning. He doesn't really care if anyone else sees them, though. He doesn't care. He sees it. He said, quote, print this. I ain't looking for no nipple to cry on. I don't think that's how it works shoulder

that is shoulder nipple to suck on shoulder to cry on is what you're talking about he just he mixed that I ain't looking for no shoulder to suck on

lucky he didn't say that nipple to cry on less weird than shoulder to suck on his nipple I guess wow then he says this quote I'm just saying what it is. Hopefully one day people won't look at me as the boogeyman.

I don't think he looked at him as a boogeyman. I don't think anybody ever thought that. No. I don't think so. No. He was like, oh, this guy's got problems is what I always thought. So September 28, 2011, he tells everybody that he got a job with Regency Furniture Showrooms now.

Now he's going to sell you a futon. Yeah, he's there. He's trying to, I guess, selling furniture. Yeah. He's worked at the Knives department. He said he's working on a rap album. Oh, no. He said he's staying with the furniture store

to try to stay afloat during the lockout. The sales manager at the store said, yes, he did. I hired this man, so there he is. Yeah, why not? Come on down. He went to school locally. Yeah, he went to three years of college. They said that he used to come in, quote, sometimes he just stops by and says, hi.

He can make some extra money, and it would make money for us. So when he comes in and wants to sell some furniture, people will come see him and then maybe buy some furniture that's how it works here it's like a personal appearance so they said selling furniture might be good yeah because at first they thought he was in the warehouse i guess and i guess he's selling furniture i don't know he tweeted a picture of himself wearing the regency shirt and, quote, getting to know his new coworkers in the warehouse. He said, having fun with my new job. Called it a cool place to be. He said, I don't know what to do.

So what else do you do? Now, October 24, 2011, he buys an OJ Simpson white Ford Bronco. Not the new ones that are out of the an oj bronco the bronco or like just a four thousand dollar bronco just a an oj bronco replica yeah yeah that's it here so a four to six thousand dollar 94 bronco yeah you know that's what he said he said he needed uh needed a car to you know beat in, and he said that he purchased a, quote, O.J. Simpson-style 94 white Bronco. Which is interesting. And then it broke down.

Of course. He was spotted in the streets pushing it to a gas station. Oh, God damn it. Which is wonderful. Yeah, that's great. That's a terrible picture to have of a man that made $12 million. And he said he's not going to keep it white. He's looking for new suggestions for a pink color for it too.

The white makes it too OJ. It's too OJ. So back to the lockout timeline here. He says, this is from his Twitter feed, which was at Charlie Reds 13. This is handled there for a while. He's November 3rd. Quote, it's only a few cds make rotation in the lac rhythm and gangsta is definitely one of um one of them one of them exactly november 10th

i don't know i don't know what he's talking about a lot of these things are very maybe coded. November 10th. It's in Delonte's. So it's difficult. Yeah. November 10th. Cinnamon Toast Crunch Casino Royale toes curled all the way in the couch. So he's sitting around watching James Bond eating cinnamon toast crunches. What he's saying. I believe November 13th can't spell 13 OSS without 13.

No lie. I sat down with guys from Nike, told them they should endorse Nike condom and have a high-profile athlete endorse it. Yeah. Yeah. Just do it. Just do it and wear this. Can't wait to get back to Boston, I hope. Please, swear I won't mess up again.

Okay. I beg of you, give me a job. November 14th. And the new D-West shoe. It would only be $29.99 plus shipping and handling. Shipping is what it's with one P and no G. Shipping and handling. And you can get a snuggie joint, fatigue color.

Snuggie comes with it? So for $30, you get shoes and a Snuggie. And a camo Snuggie. A camouflage Snuggie, yeah. Snuggie joint. Snuggie joint. I don't know what's up with that. Sounds like a homeless man uniform. Yeah, it really does.

And Delonte West's shoes. So November 27th, he says, 66 games. I got to be ready for battle with whoever. I am Gladiator with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12 exclamation points. Wow. And then he says, my stamina gone be on. And that is 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 zeros. So I don't know even what that is.

It's more than trillions. I don't know. That's a lot of them. Trillion is nine zeros, so I don't know what the fuck we're going to do. So he's not on 100. Quadrillion? Yeah. I think it's quadrillion.

I think we're into there, the quadrillions. So that's a lot. He's a gladiator. That's where his stamina is going to be? His stamina is one quadrillion. Ten quadrillion, I think, actually, because it's 13. So I could be very wrong. I know shit about math.

We're both idiots when it comes to that. November 13, 2011, signed by Dallas. He signs a one-year veteran minimum contract, and he's ready to go. He said that he- $300,000? He arrived with no- No, it's like a million. He arrived with no money to rent an apartment.

Yeah. They said, quote, when he went to Dallas, it's not like he wanted to lose his home, but we took what he had. Okay took but we took what he had okay i guess somebody yeah whatever he had we gave him an apartment for it yeah they said that he had lawyers fees from his arrest and his divorce that were depleted all the money he had he had bought homes for himself for his mother and his father he put his sister through college and bought her a car he did all this type of shit quote camouflage had a camouflage snuggie and some shoes. He wants to give you all that for $30.

So, you know, his brother said he'll borrow a dollar just to give you a dollar. That's not good. He said that he had trouble finding an apartment he can afford, and he was spending some nights in his truck parked in the arena's garage, unbeknownst to the team, obviously. In his 94 Bronco. In his 94 Bronco? In his 94 Bronco. So 11-12, 2011-2012, they're 36-30 in the lockout shortened season,

and they get swept by the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Mavericks do here, in four games. So not great there. This is, by the way, they were going to the White House for a visit after one of their games, because it's the team that won from the last year is going. Oh, this is Dirk's big year. But he can't go. Delonte. Even though he wasn't even on the team.

But he said, quote, I'm banned from going to the White House, so I'm not going to make it, he said. But I'm going home to D.C. I'm just not allowed to go to the White House. That's what happens when you D.C. I'm just not allowed to go to the White House. That's what happens when you make bad decisions in your life. You can't go to the White House. I live in D.C. It's going to be

ashamed the president isn't ashamed, by the way, he said. It's going to be ashamed the president isn't going to get a chance to meet me. I'm the president of my house. You're the president too? Me too. Wow, I'm the president. Smaller country, but it's of my house. You're the president too? Me too. The president. Wow.

I'm the president. Smaller country, but it's only my house. January 2012, he says that he, one night, he said he Googled himself on his phone after a good game. Oh, don't do that. And got pissed off when he found a story that brought up his arrest. So he wrote a series of angry tweets saying that he was sleeping in his car because he'd been treated shabbily by the media huh what was that hold on let's get a rewind there you missed a lot you yeah no you you made like millions of dollars that you spent on things this deadspin article

robbed my bank account. That is wild. Wow, that's crazy. And that he'd gone from starting on a team that won more than 60 games to being a desperado, making the league minimum, and now people wouldn't rent him a place to live because of, quote, shit they read on the internet. He said, since that incident, went from starting on a 60-plus team, supposed to make five to

eight million a year to desperado motherfucker. Now making L minimum league minimum. Then he says, appreciate it. Probably can cancel that last application now. Oh yeah. Why? Why I sleep in my car? Not because I spend unwisely because even though my case was dismissed, these are into

separate tweets, by the way, even though my case was dismissed these are into separate tweets by the way even though my case was dismissed as misdemeanor apartment complexes out here won't let me in oh he says out chair so he's really Baltimore won't let me in because of the shit they read on the internet hey d is that chicken I smell in your locker it sure is because I sleep in the gym some night in my car other night motel when when i can i ain't your fucking side show you're then stop tweeting please stop being a side you're literally putting on a side show yeah he says oh i get it dallas media let's ask all the players about uh about d's game ask d West to rap about chicken and guns.

Lame-ass motherfuckers. Then he says, you took your fat ass down to South Beach. He's talking to LeBron now. Oh, boy. Took your fat ass down to South Beach riding the Pony Express, fat boy. Oh, no, it's somebody else.

Get Bron dick out your mouth and go jog on the beach. Somebody else who signed down there. took his fat ass down there. I don't know. He said, eating chicken and riding motorcycles. Actually, it's ridden motorcycles is the way he says it. Maybe, maybe. He's a little chubby, I guess.

Hope you sleep well tonight. Now go write about that, wine-horsed, after you write all that bullshit about me. Oh, I think maybe. Oh, I think it me oh i think maybe maybe it's oh i think it's a reporter media i think it's a media person escrow and whatever else they make up to take a to take a price of your league minimum so yeah f you sure a gm out there like damn there he go again oh yeah for you dumb jokers out there 800 equals 370 lawyers fees agent fees league fines divorce settlement what you got left okay so that's good later he later deleted everything and apologized yep that's how it goes delete delete fuck it fuck it fuck it fuck it not bad no august or april 25th

2012 he says quote it's just like a warrior getting ready for battle this is pre-game he's sitting in front of his locker he says you take time to reflect on what you have to do that night for victory. It's like a Spartacus type putting on your armor. It's basketball. Relax. No one's being murdered out there. No one will be killed on the court probably. No matter how many overtimes there goes, there will never be tigers released.

No. Well, like in football, guys have died. They've broken their necks. There's been bad things. Basketball, really minimal. I mean, honestly, you could blow out an ACL. And, yeah, that's about it. So he's ready to go, though.

He wants to do this. The Mavs signed Jason Kidd here, so he's excited about that. Kidd said of Delonte West, he's a great person, a very caring person. Isn't that nice from alumni to alumni of Grime and Sports? Yeah. Yeah. He said that on the playgrounds of Maryland and Washington, Delonte said he was called Little Kid because he had light skin and his game was very similar. And he said, this is Jason Kidd, he's a competitor and he can play.

He's a big part of our success here. Being around him this season has been great. I've learned a lot about him. He'll give you his last dollar if you need it. I believe it. sorts of issues here obviously his mother um who lives in the home he bought her in maryland he says though he's helped all these people so you know he should be okay here yeah why not so he was very upset after there was i guess an incident where he drew a 25 000 league fine oh that was the weird wet willie he gave remember that oh who did he give it to i don't know that was weird ref no no no no player right a player yeah that? Oh, who did he give it to? I don't know. That was weird. A ref?

No. No, no, no. Another player, right? A player. Yeah, it was a player. Is it Steph Curry? What the fuck? Who did he do it to?

$25,000 fine. I don't know. It's really fucking weird, though. They said, his brother said, he didn't take the situation light. He was real upset with himself. He was real disappointed in himself after he did that. I said, bro, what you doing, man? He said, I i know my bad he

apologized to me because believe it or not sometimes it's out of his control because you know he's dealing sometimes with this medical issue sometimes you're like did he go off again what are you doing yeah yeah obviously stick a wet finger in a man's ear no shit man it's just that was you don't do that and as an adult yeah that's not good um dimitri his brother said quote delonte don't give himself anything he gives everything delonte's a giver delonte makes sure that everybody in the family is taken care of that's nice he and then the mother his mother says i have like 36 nieces and nephews i got great nieces and great great my sister's 67 so that's older than most people's grandparents so i'm saying that delante tries to help out so he tries to give

everybody some money yeah when he can um he got hit with a technical foul in golden state one night and he said quote well i lost it tonight i wish i could make the funeral tomorrow to touch your hand and tell you i'm sorry where's my medicine somebody somebody died so he couldn't couldn't come he's having having some problems there um delante also said at the end of the day the world beats you up and you got nobody to turn to your family is always going to be there i was raised in that system i was raised with a village my family's like that because cousins close friends lived with us and we lived with them for years at a time that'll happen that'll get you awfully fucking close they're awfully fucking close so he on the court he still did he hasn't seems like

he lost something i don't know what it is is his confidence or something he said about free agency what uh when that time comes, I just hope I've done over the last two years playing for the league minimum when I know I'm worth much more than that. Judging by the players around the league, my defensive ability, my ability to play offense, you can see it. It's not a league minimum, but I'm

not going to fight the system. Oh, Jesus Christ. I guess so. His mother said, I love the way that dallas is embracing my son when i see my son i see him happy i see him so it's almost like a transformation type of thing and i love it i love dallas i love what is happening with delonte in dallas this year plays in 44 games 9.6 points a game 3.22 assists, 1.3 rebounds. And that's it for basketball for him.

That's it. Career 9.1 a game score here. He makes $1,146,000 that year. That's great. Yeah. They suspend him in October for starting an outburst. Starting an outburst. That's interesting.

I don't know. Let's see. We'll find out. We know what it means. I don't know what they're talking about is what i'm saying i know what they're referring to but i don't know what the fuck they're talking about starting an outburst the first suspension happened about tweets and everything like that he suspended again this time he tweeted quote just don't kick me on the way out the door i didn't do anything to deserve that. Then he said,

I'm sitting here across from the arena with tears in my eyes. Then he said, no, I'm not off my meds. This is a, this is what he's tweeting. Okay. He got suspended for all this shit for,

they didn't disclose any specifics, but he was acting like an asshole apparently. So they said it was a spec, uh, effective immediately and no other statements would be issued okay there you go vince carter said we're losing a competitor that's plain and simple he's a competitor yeah he's waived by dallas done um at the time he was waived he was renting an apartment with uh at a 28 story building with a balcony that overlooked the arena, which is not great for a guy who just got cut from the team. Yeah. So he said he sat there after his release and watched fans come to the arena.

And he said that he would basically just sit there for the whole game. And after they left, just kind of catatonic staring at the whole thing. Oh, my God, that's so creepy. He said, I couldn't move. I sulked. I cried every day. I stopped eating. I felt I was so close. There was this perception of me of one bad decision I made a few years back in Cleveland. I felt I was on the cusp of letting it go. How's that feel, Mavericks fan that went to games in that year?

No shit. Delonte West watched you. He was staring at you and cried. He was staring at you and cried. Total, he makes $16,232,536 in his career when he's completely broke. Yep. Not wonderful. He said that he met a woman here, Caressa is her name, at a mutual friend's house, and they got together and all that sort of thing.

So, yep, he said that he had a $1 million eight- eight bedroom house with a pool and a nice view of the potomac but he said that the furnace was out and he couldn't afford a new hot water heater so had to sell the whole thing you can't have a big house like that unless you can afford a lot of shit breaking that's just how it is so he filled the room with portable he filled rooms with portable space heaters, four in the master bedroom. He said he remembers heating water on the stove so his newly pregnant girlfriend could take a warm bath. He's living like he's in the projects in an eight-bedroom fucking house, which is crazy. He said he proposed to her by cutting a snippet off a jump rope he found in the garage and wrapping it around her finger. He said, that's all I can afford, baby. I heat ain't working brain ain't working right but i love you

oh that's a hell of a proposal right there in every romantic comedy that's when the guy finally gets it and it all comes together that's usually what he says he says brain ain't working heat ain't working but i love you that was was at the end of Overboard. I have nothing I can give you. Yes, you can. My little girl. That's all it is capable of giving her children. I can give you my sperm.

It's pretty good. That's all I've got. That's it. He painted his basement black, and he would sit down there thinking of what he could sell to earn some money. He said, quote, I never had no shame in my game. Look, I'm liquidation sale, baby. Everything must go. Fire sale.

We must be crazy. Doesn't give a fuck. His family wanted him to put his basketball stuff up, but he said, no. Anything I could find, I threw it away. Trophies, pictures, anything. I was just hurting. I felt like I was spiraling downhill. Trophies, pictures, anything.

I was just hurting. I felt like I was spiraling downhill. So, 2013, he's acquired by the Texas Legends of the NBA D-League, which is now the G-League, I think. So, he made his debut with 10 points for the team, and he's doing that sort of thing. So, he marries Caressa. They have two sons, one of whom is named cash which is very ironic with a c so for a guy with for a guy with no cash yeah got any cash right here holds it up he said that um he was optimistic he's that was playing for the cba at one point here jesus christ that's rough man he went to china also to play. He's trying to go all around here.

Everyone, this is funny, everyone knows that he wanted to name his kid Delonte Jr., he says, but he didn't want his kid, quote, to go to school and get laughed at because of things his father did. He said, I named my son Cash after Cassius Clay and Johnny Cash. His middle name is delonte but i didn't want to name him delonte west jr the first fucking person in 365 episodes to get that shit straight just because of that wow he said didn't want people he didn't want his son going to school and have people making fun of him for something his daddy did quote oh didn't your daddy have sex with LeBron James mama

man I don't want to deal with all that I don't think they would know all that shit by the time he was in school so he signs a one year deal in China he goes there you know he's having a lot of fucking problems obviously here you know he's got he's trying

I guess he's got to get rid of this house he's he's got his house by the way has the world is yours written all over shit like scarface really or yeah or fucking the uh naz song either one but scarface that's why the song is like that yeah so interesting there interesting july 2000 oh he was also talking about doing construction work as well because his family businesses construction. He wanted to fix his house up. I don't know what the fuck he's doing. July 2014 joins the Clippers for the 2014 NBA Summer League, then signs a one year deal deal with the Shanghai Sharks to return to China. Sharks to return to China. Yeah, he was released by the team after just four games

despite having a 29-point debut in the first game of the season. He then signs with Guaros de Lara of the Venezuelan Liga Profesional de Balancento, but he left the team before playing a single game for them.

So then he's acquired by the Texas Legends, a single game for them he so then he has he's acquired by the texas legends appears that night for the delaware against the delaware 87ers he had 10 points in 19 minutes and then he's waved after he hurts himself in about two weeks it's rough um it's rough it's rough so there's an article in the washington post him in 2015. He said, I took one step back to take 100 steps forward in life. That's what I needed. I needed time to get over everything. I wasn't everyone. It wasn't everyone else holding on to what happened in Cleveland. It might have just been me. I needed to let that go. I needed to grow up. That's right. So it's wild. One of his he's one of his friends said he's NBA.

That's where he belongs. Unfortunately, misconceptions and out of sight, out of mind has relegated him to our level. Talking about the other leagues. He hasn't been able to show people that this isn't where he belongs. Yeah. He says, this is fucking funny. They still want to talk about LeBron James' mom. They still want to talk about the motorcycles and the suitcase with the guns.

This is his friend, by the way. They still want to talk about the mental side of things. How many personalities does he have? None of that really exists right now. For an NBA GM, maybe he has to consider the public backlash. For Delonte, it certainly doesn't. he has to consider the public backlash for Delonte. It certainly doesn't. It said this,

it's all. And Delonte said, quote, um, uh, yeah, this is him talking. I think,

yeah, he says, quote, I'm bipolar, just like the rest of us in the world. So bipolar is defined as something sad happens. You're sad. Something happy happens.

You're happy. I think pretty much everyone in the world is like that. Now there's different levels. How long do you stay sad? How does it affect your behavior? He should say, are you up for four fucking days at a time doing things and feeling on top of the world like you could do this forever and then crash for a week? That's another one that you didn't put in there. So he said, how do you handle these emotions?

Do you sit on a fucking balcony watching fans stream in for hours at a time in a catatonic state? Do you do that? While crying. Wow. Mark Cuban connected West with a financial advisor who helped him stabilize his finances and limit his spending. So he helped him out with that anyway. He said he's also off Twitter,

and he's surrounded by either basketball or his wife and his kids. That's it. That's all. He's just got to do this shit. So July 3rd, 2015, he says LeBron James saved his life and that he's pulling for Cleveland and the Cavaliers. He said LeBron James on two occasions helped redirect his route from going down a disastrous path. He said, I was dealing with so much guilt after the weapons thing. He said I wasn't processing things right.

I was under the impression that I was going to do nine years minimum. Everything I ever dreamed of, the sweat and the tears of what I worked for, would all be wiped away. He said that he had to get away, and he asked the coach for consent to spend a few days to clear his mind at home. So the guy let him get away, let him go away there. And he said, LeBron James asked him if he could talk to him for a minute, and he said he sat with me in the locker room for like an hour and was wrapping it up with me by giving me words of encouragement. Keep in mind, practice was still going on. He left practice and sat with me for a while, just keeping me company.

We later walked down the stairs and said, D, I don't know where you're going or what you're about to do, but I'll be right here when you get back. And so will my mom. You won't be if you found out where I'm going. No shit. He said he had a problem also. At one point, he said he lost it at the airport. He said the bus pulled up to escort us to the plane, and I just broke down crying. I felt like my career was over. I was fucked up. I was concerned that my nieces and nephews wouldn't look at me the same anymore. I let the team go ahead of me.

I wasn't getting on. So he's had some issues. He said LeBron ended up looking for him. And, yeah, so LeBron, he said, Man, LeBron andandy just fellowshiped with me and then the next thing i knew here comes uh teammate lorenzen right oh no that poor bastard poor guy rest in peace he adds that he came out there and grabbed me pick me up bear hugged me he hugged me for like five minutes he literally had me up and they walked me up onto the plane lorenzen read me

bible scriptures the whole point jesus the whole plane ride i am terrified of flying i would be praying to plummet to the earth if someone started reading me fucking bible scripture the whole time is there a mountain we can fucking fly into at 700 miles an hour please holy shit that team was finally uh was a family and lebron was a big reason why so they're just talking about all the cleveland stuff february 2016 is when he's wandering around houston wandering around wearing a hospital gown and no shoes um yes he was in a dress like that this morning that's from a hospital right that's from a hospital yeah he i guess was in a hospital, yeah. He, I guess, was in a Jack in the Box parking lot when a fan had approached him earlier in the week.

And according to the fan who uploaded the photos, which is a picture of him with a Jack in the Box cup there, he said it was really weird. The fan asked, are you Delonte West? And he said, I used to be, but I'm not about that life anymore. I'm not on that shit anymore. I ain't on that shit. but I'm not about that life anymore. Not on that shit anymore. I ain't on that shit.

He's got a Harley vest, a leather Harley Davidson vest, a short sleeve dress shirt open and a long sleeve flannel shirt under it. It's a weird outfit. He says that he was helping a homeless man, not panhandling. Okay. Which it looks like he's panhandling.

Yeah. He says that, yeah, it's not at all, he's, yeah, he's fine. He's's panhandling. Yeah. He says that, yeah, it's not at all. Yeah, he's fine. He's not panhandling. He's all good. You know, no worries. He said no panhandling.

Quote, I was helping a homeless man in my neighborhood that's paralyzed from the neck down. I parked my car and got out to help because it was 90 degree weather and I was feeling blessed at the moment just for having legs. So you got to feel bad for fucking this guy, man. I mean, I feel bad for him. I feel bad for LeBron's mom if this all didn't happen. If it's not true. If it's not true, that's terrible. I mean, you feel bad for all these people.

Yeah. I mean, I feel bad for all these people, Jimmy. But not nearly as bad as I feel for Delonte West. Works for Arnav and Company in Tempe, Arizona. Oh, no. Go find him. Give him a hug. Okay.

January 2020, they said the Celtics gave him a scouting position, but his attendance was inconsistent. What? Yeah. He got a job, and they just wanted to help him. The easiest job, yeah. Yeah, go watch players. Tell us if they're any good. And he didn't show up all the time.

Wow. Danny Ainge, who was the Celtics GM there, he said, Delonte has obviously some troubles and some trials that he's trying to deal with in his life. I just hope that he can fix his life and get back on a good path. Yeah. I hope so

here when you missed your assignment in paxton hit a three-point range you piece of shit remember that you twat so january 21st 2020 here this is a this is the one that everybody feels bad for him from this is him being fucking beaten in the street remember this yeah yeah that was so bad that was terrible and rambling incoherently to the cops this was really fucking sad man this is this is this this is why people are sad about him you know well before that he was the haha he's the guy who fucked lebron's mom and it was like oh the shit this is sad he's homeless and then he's he's still getting arrested so we'll talk about that he's beaten by an unidentified assailant on a Washington, D.C. highway. And this got all sorts of coaches and Mark Cuban and all these people trying to help him out.

Because they were like, we don't even know where the fuck he was. He was seen being pummeled on a traffic-lined highway by a man wearing a leather jacket before he starts talking to shit. He's not fighting back at all for some reason. He appears incapacitated he definitely looks fucked up i would say he's basically getting stomped on while he's totally motionless he's just laying there helpless it's very fucking sad it's hard to watch it really is i hate that shit i hate watching people do that shit so the the prince george's county police arrived on the scene and um which is why west is seen handcuffed in one of the videos.

According to the police, a female witness claimed that the fight began when one man hit another man with a bottle. The other man allegedly responded by hitting the first man who was West. I think West tried to start the thing. So both men refused medical assistance and declined to press

charges. Neither were publicly identified but West is seen, obviously, rambling incoherently. That was a big row of cars. Nobody's intervening, because it looks like there's two homeless people fighting, is what it looks like. Which, nobody intervenes in that, usually. But he's laying in a heap

on the side of the road. It's really fucking sad. It looks like he's dead for a while there. So, West said, quote, I was walking down the street, then he approached me for a while there so west said quote i was walking down the street then he approached me with a gun he said the officer uh speaking with west asked where the guy's gun is and west yelled i don't give a fuck where his gun is because he's trying to explain it with the cops so he repeated that a few times then he said something about donald trump but we don't know what it wasn't about he just said something president donald trump and then he said something about donald trump but we don't know what it wasn't about

he just said something president donald trump and then he said i'm the real fucking president yeah is what he said president of his own house he's the president of his own house uh yeah that's that's some shit there so uh his ex-teammate jameer nelson said i'm sick today mental illness is something that a lot of people deal with and don't even know it until sometimes it's too late. I'm not sure exactly what is going to happen with D-West, but he knows I'm in his corner and will help him get through this. He's got a lot of friends that are willing to help him. I bet he'll be LeBron's Eggman. LeBron will let you be the Eggman, I bet.

He's got so much money. He's probably got 40 Eggmen, LeBron. You know what I mean? Yeah. He's got to have so fucking many.Bron. You know what I mean? Yeah. He's got to have so fucking many. So many. Unless he really did bang his mom, he's not going to let it happen. Yeah.

Yeah. Maybe not at that point. You'd think he could throw him something. Throw him a fucking bone here. Jesus Christ. So January 21st, 2020, a police officer is suspended after the video of the handcuffed Delonte West surfaces. Video was recorded after he was beaten in the street.

He's fucking handcuffed. So they filmed one of the responding officers filmed his interaction with West as he sat on the side of the road shirtless and in handcuffs. West suggested he did not instigate the fight. Obviously, he said the guy approached with a firearm. The cop said, why did you hit him? Did he attack you first, self-defense, or did did you hit him that's what they can hear him talking um they said that the interaction the officer had been suspended and will be dealt with heart uh harshly if the probe determines he was behind the video's release not suspended for handcuffing him for releasing the video to say this is Delonte West. Ha ha.

Basically September 24, 2020 NBA and doc rivers offer help to Delonte West. After all this comes out, everybody wants to help him. Then they offer Jameer Nelson comes out September 29th, 2020. They, it looks like he's homeless again. This is when he's out on the street.

So Mark Cuban found him and picked him up. Yep. 2020, it looks like he's homeless again. This is when he's out on the street. So Mark Cuban found him and picked him up. He was standing on the side of the road on a Dallas highway. Delonte was asking for money. He was band handling on the side of a highway. He's wearing a white sweater, gray sweatpants and loafers, and he's all dirty. And he looks like a fucking mess. I mean, it's sad as shit.

So he's struggling with his mental health, obviously, and substance abuse. He's holding a fucking mess. I mean, it's sad as shit. So he's struggling with his mental health, obviously, and substance abuse. He's holding a cardboard sign. I mean, he's begging on the side of the road. So Mark Cuban picked West up at a gas station and said, quote, I can just confirm that I found him and helped him. The rest is up to Delonte and his family to tell. So I'm not going to say shit about it. So there you go. And which is, I mean, he's lucky that most people, Mark Cuban doesn't pull over and help most people, I'm sure.

So yeah, he picked up, he picked him up and a lot of people were happy with Mark Cuban for doing that. So that's nice. Obviously, January 19th, 2021, Delonte is working at a drug rehab center that he used to attend. Oh, that's great. That's nice. One in Florida here.

Mark Cuban helped him get a job. I guess helped him get his life on track and all that. He was treated at the Rebound Therapy Center in Florida, and he's now working there trying to help other people. So that's nice. October 2021, October 20th, 2021, he is arrested. For what? october 2021 october 20th 2021 he is arrested for what in boynton beach after banging on the police department's lobby doors again yeah that's twice where he looked for them yeah um that is wild so he goes there this is down in florida obviously where else would you bang on a police

department's doors and get arrested for it so he goes there. I guess it was just before 9 p.m. Officers responded to the department's lobby for an individual yelling and banging on the glass doors. It was him. He is screaming profanities while holding in two separate hands, in one hand an open can of Ice House beer, and the other hand an open bottle of mango flavored vodka oh he's on it this is not yeah this has nothing to do with mental health this is i'm drunk in the streets

and i'm and i'm fucking yelling at people so officer said that he began to walk away while still screaming and they told him to stop he refused to stop then they commanded him to place the open containers on the sidewalk he complied with those demands however then he stood back up and began to place his hands in inside of his waistband of his pants oh god delante so the police officer one of them unholstered and pulled a taser on him and gave him uh gave him a commands here And he complied, dropped to his knees with his hands in the air. And, yeah, they said that when they put him in the back of the car, he continued to be belligerent, screaming profanities, and on, quote, obscure rants. They said that he smelled of alcohol.

His speech was slowed and slurred. I mean, he's walking around with two open containers, not just one. One of them is fucking hard liquor. So they arrest him, charge him with disorderly intoxication and having an open container at some point when people when you have mark there's a lot of people out there that can get their life together who never had 16 million dollars and mark cuban's not trying to help them and they still they don't do this so at some point you go you know what you got to figure it out delonte this is a lot of your problem yeah february 20th 2022 he's making a comeback yeah that's right he said he's winning the battle with mental health he's making a comeback with ice cubes big three league oh no

yep he's gonna be on that league which we found out you know it's still going on i think actually isn't it yeah it's i don't know it's uh guy from the pacers what's his name the guy there's a uh he's a proponent of weed that guy oh yeah yeah what's his name god damn it i can't remember yeah i guess apparently lebron quote this is interesting lebron told his business partner partner maverick carter that he wants west in los angeles and that he will quote spend whatever money it takes to get him back on his feet. He wants him like on the team or just like in the city, I think, around him, I guess, on the big three team that's there, I think they said. Yes. So he said he's had a lifelong battle with illness and everything else here. with illness and everything else here.

So he wants to help him. October 22, 2022, arrested again. Booked on multiple charges over a vehicle trespassing incident. This is 5.53 p.m. Police receive a call after witnesses said they saw Wes trying to get inside a vehicle that didn't belong to him. Oh, God. They said they tried to detain him for trespassing, but he allegedly became aggressive and fled the scene.

He was eventually found, detained, and booked on four criminal charges, vehicle trespassing, entering a vehicle, fleeing from law enforcement, and public intoxication. Mark Cuban said it's a struggle for him. I mean, addiction is awful and mental illness is awful. He's at a point in life where he's got to want to be helped. It on him yeah he's got to stop drinking and doing shit too that's the thing he can't go saying that he thought it was his car because he knows damn well he doesn't have a car no that's the fucking thing totally so all right let's end this on a delante west quote oh okay quote i like to play i like to paint murals of the ocean that I see beyond the horizon because I feel if in order for us to grow, we got to know.

In order to love the brother man, you got to know the other man. Oh. One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish, knick-knack, paddywhack, give the dog a bone ding he literally he said that ding he yeah that's in there he said to get a dog a bone part two yeah he said knick-knack paddywhack give the dog a bone ding that's the tweet yeah because i'm not shitting you that's because in the in that movie uh uh yeah don't be Menace, the guy's bacon was done. That's what it was, yeah. Ding.

Ding. Bacon was done. He just did it, yeah. Bacon's been smellified. In order to love the brother man, you got to know the other man. Yeah. One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish, knick-knack, paddywhack, give the dog a bone. Ding.

Ding. There you go. That's Delonte West. And there you go. That is Delonte West, everybody. Oh, my. Seems like when this guy is not drinking, not doing drugs, and concentrating on his mental health, he's a very nice person at his core. He's a good person.

He's not a mean person. He's not an abusive person. He's not beating the shit out of his wife. He's not knocking his kids around. He's not fucking punching strippers at 3 in the morning. He's just got his own worst enemy. He's been a detriment to himself since he was 8 years old. So he's one of these guys we really hope we don't have to do any updates on Delonte West

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