It's hard to believe, but the man reduced to the state of a lost and half-mad tramp who crawls over the images that have been circulating for a few hours on social networks was still a short time ago, an NBA star, the american basketball championship.
On the night of Monday to Tuesday, Delonte West, reduced to the state of a tramp, was arrested in the streets of a town in the suburbs of Washington, the American capital. 10 years ago, this man was LeBron James' teammate in Cleveland.
Slim doing bad NBA need to offer him some help pic.twitter.com/b7MtTj9JAt
- Maybe: Damani (@damani_givens) January 21, 2020On a video, we see him sitting on the sidewalk, his hands seemingly handcuffed behind his back. His shirtless body is covered in tattoos. It is thanks to them that we recognize the former player, unrecognizable elsewhere. Obviously not in his normal state, the vagrant insults the forces by launching them: "I don't give a damn" ("I don't give a fuck!"). He looks like an old man when he is only 36 years old.
In yet another more terrible video that is causing a buzz, we see a man being beaten up on a highway ramp in front of stationary cars. The video was filmed a few hundred meters from where West was found. The man on the ground resembles him strangely. After investigation, it is indeed him.
Apparently Delonte West was seen getting beat up in the street this Morning. I went to school with him and it's crazy to see just how his life has gone downhill since the NBA. pic.twitter.com/chm6Sbu9h6
- Measha⚡️ (@ N90sKindOfWorld) January 20, 2020What happened to him ? No one knows at this time. But in the United States, this descent into hell of a former NBA star does not seem to surprise. The last time the former player who passed through Cleveland, Boston and Dallas was talked about, was in 2016. He was walking alone in a parking lot in the middle of the night, in a white nurse's blouse with nothing underneath. In 2010, Delonte West was arrested for possession of an illegal weapon.
A Washington native, Delonte West played a decade in the NBA as a point guard, passing through Boston, Cleveland and Seattle, before ending his career in Dallas.
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