Moment former NBA player Delonte West seen panhandling

Former NBA participant Delonte West was apparently captured on video panhandling on Richmond Freeway (Footage: Getty Photographs/Twitter)

A former NBA participant was reportedly noticed panhandling on a freeway in Alexandria, Virginia, over the weekend.

Delonte West, 38, who performed for the Boston Celtics, Seattle SuperSonics, Cleveland Cavaliers and Dallas Mavericks, was apparently captured in a video holding a cardboard signal and asking for cash on Richmond Freeway.

Within the five-second viral video, an individual is heard saying West’s identify and seen stretching an arm out of a automotive window to slap the previous basketball participant’s hand. A caption for the clip reads, ‘Followers are saying they noticed Delonte West panhandling’.

West has struggled with substance abuse and psychological well being in recent times and spoken overtly about his battle with bipolar dysfunction.

Delonte West noticed again within the streets. 😞

Hope he’s in a position to get again on his ft. 🙏pic.twitter.com/UOhU2wKpVO

— NBA Retweet (@RTNBA) June 11, 2022

A January 2020 video confirmed West bleeding and in handcuffs. West reportedly received right into a struggle and accused a person of brandishing a gun at him.

Mavericks proprietor Mark Cuban stepped in round that point to assist put West in a rehabilitation program in Florida. However West suffered a relapse and was arrested in October of that yr.

For some time after that, West appeared to have his life again so as and received again into coaching, hoping to make Ice Dice’s BIG3 3-on-3 basketball league this summer season. West made the draft pool for the league in April, however was finally not chosen.

A viral video confirmed an individual greeting a person who is outwardly former NBA participant Delonte West, on a road in Virginia (Image: Twitter)

West performed within the NBA by way of 2012, and final performed professionally in 2015. In 2016, he was seen strolling on a road in Maryland, elevating questions round whether or not he was homeless. However West insisted he had a house and was doing high quality.

West’s brother in 2016 mentioned he had bipolar dysfunction and that he was ‘not loopy’ and ‘not on medication’.

‘I don’t know what precisely is occurring in his thoughts however I can inform you that he's secure and he’s doing OK,’ Dmitri West informed the Each day Mail on the time. ‘My household try to get him the most effective skilled assist that’s on the market, the most effective that they'll afford.’

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