Five thousand reasons why Delonte West is still awesome

Since this is the second ever post to this blog and it's already another post about a new player for the Boston Celtics, I'll keep it short (since I don't even like the Celtics, in fact they mostly seem like a bunch of unlikeable guys except for their newest addition, the one I'll mention if I ever get out of these parentheses).


Delonte West is awesome for about 84,528 reasons.  Not the least of which is this:


On September 17, 2009 West was pulled over for a traffic violation while riding a 3-wheeled motorcycle. During this stop it was found that West had a 9mm Beretta pistol, .357 Magnum and a Remington 870 in a guitar case


I don't condone carrying around weaponry, but if you're going to, a guitar case is the proper luggage.  There's also the fact that Delonte West may or may not have slept with Lebron James' mother.  And there's this (it's a shame the actual video seems to have been erased from history, but there's a little bit of transcript at the link).


It also turns out that Delonte West is pretty good at basketball when placed in the right situation.  Things Delonte can't do: guard big wings, be a first option for initiating offense for himself and teammates, stay away from teammates' mothers.  Things Delonte can do: hit open threes (career 37.3%), defend either guard spot (except against the aforementioned big wings if they can manage to post him up).


Where can a guy like that find a situation that's right for him?  On any team with superstar wings who can already initiate all the offense, cover a big wing when needed, and manage to avoid sleeping with Lebron's mother.  What kind of teams are these?  The current Celtics and Lakers come to mind, and the Cavs up until THE DECISION.  I was actually a little surprised that the Lakers didn't pursue West when they were shopping around for a "point guard" (you don't really have to be able to play point guard to be the small guard on the Lakers or any triangle team when you have a guard of Kobe's caliber).  Maybe Phil Jackson was just getting nervous that he was running out of white guys to give oddly large amounts of playing time to (note: Kukoc was actually good, I just felt like I had to include him for some reason, maybe to piss off Scottie Pippen when he reads this).


Oh, and it's awesome when Delonte dunks on someone.