Days after he was seen panhandling on Richmond Freeway in Alexandria, Va., former NBA participant Delonte West was noticed loitering exterior a 7-Eleven.
Within the video, West may be seen conversing with a number of passers-by in addition to standing atop an ice cooler to plug his cellphone into an electrical outlet. The 38-year-old has struggled with substance abuse, psychological well being points and a bipolar dysfunction in recent times.
West, who spent eight years within the NBA, which included stints with the Celtics, Mavericks and Cavaliers, had resumed coaching in February in hopes of securing a spot in Ice Dice’s Huge 3 3-on-3 basketball league. However he reportedly “no-showed” for the league’s draft final month.
A former first-round decide by the Celtics in 2004, West first started to attract concern when in February 2016 he was photographed barefoot and in a hospital robe out in public in Houston. That June, a video of him panhandling in Maryland went viral.
Then in January 2020, a disconcerting video surfaced of a shirtless and bloody West on a Maryland sidewalk following an obvious combat. Within the incident’s aftermath, Mavericks proprietor Mark Cuban helped arrange West, who final performed within the NBA in 2012, in a rehab program.
However in October of final 12 months West relapsed and was arrested exterior a Florida police division.
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