Cleveland Cavaliers guard Delonte West pleaded guilty Thursday to weapons charges. In Prince George's County Circuit Court, Judge Graydon McKee sentenced West to eight months of electronic monitoring, two years of unsupervised probation, 40 hours of community service and psychological counseling. Accompanied by his mother, girlfriend and uncle in court, West told Judge McKee he was ashamed. He said he has been "put on a pedestal" because he can "dribble a basketball," and worries about letting down youth who look up to athletes. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5382227
I would submit that he's on a pedestal not b/c he can "dribble a basketball", but b/c he's convinced someone to pay him somewhere on the order of $13M over the last 6 years to do so, and a degree from St. John's along the way.
So he has to wear an ankle bracelet until March? If this lockout doesn't go that far, it might be interesting to see how he copes with that and basketball.
