As an NBA star, once receiving a dream salary from the league, the scandal surrounding the story with his teammate’s mother has somewhat ruined Delonte West’s career.
Delonte West, one of the most exciting players in the NBA. He played 8 years in the NBA for the Boston Celtics, Seattle SuperSonics (currently Oklahoma City Thunder), Cleveland Cavaliers and Dallas Mavericks.
As a highly regarded defender in the most exciting basketball tournament on the planet, Delonte West is not remembered by fans for his top performances on the court. People often tell stories about him related to LeBron James’ mother.
Delonte West’s rather complicated relationship with LeBron James and Gloria James.
Delonte West, has had a complicated relationship with Gloria James, LeBron James’ mother. That is something that NBA fans know or have at least heard about. The story is still one of the most noisy scandals related to LeBron James but there is no exact answer.
According to the information recorded, LeBron James discovered the incident before the 4th game of the 2010 Playoff series between the Cavaliers and the Celtics took place. The NBA’s number one superstar somehow learned that his mother was having an affair with Delonte West, who a year earlier was his teammate in the Cavaliers shirt.
Facing an opponent who was a former teammate and had a relationship with his mother, LeBron James was said to have lost all his fighting spirit, which somewhat affected the team’s playing style in the remaining matches.
After the match, the incident was discussed by many people and was a story that shook the entire league at that time. Although he denied it, LeBron James’s terrible performance in that match made many people believe that his mother’s love story of a “young pilot flying a cougar plane” was true. And that greatly affected the performance of this star in the 2010 Playoffs series.
In a 2014 interview, Delonte West rekindled the old story and almost confirmed his relationship with Gloria James.
“I didn’t name my son after myself because I didn’t want him to be a laughing stock for his friends because of what his dad did,” Delonte West told Vice Sports in 2014.
The years in Cleveland Cavaliers were also the time when Delonte West reached the peak of his career.
With Delonte’s answer, fans all thought that the former player at that time did not want his son to go to school and have to receive questions like “did your dad sleep with LeBron James’ mom?” That was also the reason West named his son Cash West.
Before his affair with LeBron James’ mother, Delonte West was also involved in a gun possession and speeding charge. In 2009, while using drugs and participating in traffic, Delonte West was discovered by the police with 3 guns and a knife.
In July 2010, Delonte West was ordered to serve two years of house arrest. During that time, the Boston Celtics guard was required to perform 40 hours of community service, attend counseling sessions with a psychologist, and be monitored by an electronic bracelet for about eight months.
The last pictures of Delonte West in the NBA wearing the Dallas Mavericks jersey. At the time of his contract termination by the Dallas team, the reason given was that Delonte West did not comply with the team’s discipline, the underlying reason was not revealed.
Delonte West ended his playing years at the highest level with the Dallas Mavericks in the 2011-2012 season. He then wandered to China to find the remaining glory in the CBA tournament, but with a history of bipolar disorder, Delonte West did not last long there.
Recently, Delonte West also received a lot of attention from fans after a clip of him being beaten in the middle of the street and handcuffed with his skinny body on the sidewalk of Washington street was posted. Not long before, Delonte West also appeared outside a supermarket looking no different from a homeless person.
During his years in the NBA, Delonte West earned more than $16 million (equivalent to 460 billion VND). However, he himself was always in a state of poverty, partly due to his weakness in controlling spending.
However, unlike some other NBA stars who became broke because they only enjoyed life, Delonte West is not like that. He earned money and used it to bring a better life to his family.
Delonte West bought three homes for his parents and brother, and even paid for his mother, Delphina Addison, to get her Master of Arts from Howard University. As for his youngest sister, Delonte West also took good care of her, giving her a comfortable time while she was still in school before starting her own career.
Despite his haggard appearance, Delonte West is not actually homeless. According to Delonte West’s relatives, the most difficult thing for the former player is the terrible disease. Having a house to live in, a job to do, relatives and friends to care for, Delonte West did not choose that way of life. That shows how terrifying the neurological disease has been to Delonte West.
