Former NBA guard Delonte West was arrested on misdemeanor prices for violating the situations of his launch and resisting arrest in Virginia on Thursday morning, in response to a number of stories.
West, 40, was jailed on the Fairfax County Detention Middle on Thursday and launched later that day after posting a $2,000 bond, Fairfax County police advised The Athletic. His arraignment was scheduled for 8:30 a.m. native time Friday.
In accordance with stories, Fairfax County police noticed West round 1 a.m. in Groveton, Virginia, and tried to serve West a warrant, however a chase adopted. The officers overlooked West and finally discovered him unresponsive, per the stories.
West was administered Narcan — a drugs that quickly reverses an opioid overdose, in response to the Nationwide Institute on Drug Abuse — twice. The Narcan didn’t have the specified impact after the preliminary administration. West was then transported to an area hospital and once more given Narcan, with its desired consequence taking impact, per stories.
West was launched from the hospital and transported to the Fairfax County Detention Middle, per stories.
West, a 2004 first-round draft choose by the Boston Celtics, has struggled with psychological sickness. He went public along with his bipolar analysis in 2008. Many throughout the basketball neighborhood — like Mark Cuban and former St. Joseph’s coach Phil Martelli — have tried to assist West.
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In January 2020, Cuban paid to ship West to the Rebound Institute, an outside remedy clinic created by former NBA participant Jayson Williams, who’s had his personal struggles with substance abuse. West wound up leaving and 9 months later, a video surfaced of him panhandling in Dallas. Cuban drove to the video location and picked him up, once more sending him to Rebound.
Lower than a 12 months after leaving Rebound — in October 2021 — West was arrested in Florida.
“It’s simply, disappointing is what it’s. Or irritating, I suppose,” Cuban advised The Athletic in 2023. “Delonte sabotages himself. … I don’t know what else to say. It’s what it’s. I attempted.”
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West performed eight seasons within the NBA with the Celtics, Seattle SuperSonics, Cleveland Cavaliers and Dallas Mavericks. He averaged 9.7 factors and three.6 assists per recreation throughout his NBA profession. He final performed for the Mavericks in 2012, when West was twice suspended for conduct detrimental to the group. West tried to seek out enjoying time abroad and within the G League, however that search resulted in 2015.
Earlier than coming into the NBA, West starred alongside teammate Jameer Nelson at St. Joseph’s, the place the 2 led the Hawks to an undefeated common season (27-0) and into the Elite Eight in 2003-04.
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