By Ruth Manuel-Logan on Sep 29th 2010 7:55AM
Filed under: Interviews
It has been a few months since the rumor mill went in to high gear with stories about
sexual trysts between former Cleveland Cavalier's Delonte West (pictured above) and LeBron James' mom Gloria (pictured below). On Monday during his team's media day, West, who is now a
Boston Celtic, was caught off guard when he was confronted with the question about whether he had a sexual relationship with Gloria.
"Not at all,'' said West, who did not appear unnerved as he addressed the slew of nosy reporters. "I come from an era where you don't say nothing bad about someone's parent, so not at all.''
The brave soul who managed to pose the off-putting question to West was a radio station reporter. A Boston Celtics official tried his darndest to thwart the determined reporter, but his tactics were unsuccessful.
Last May, when the alleged sex scandal broke, folks were saying that the reason Lebron failed to bring his former team to a playoff series victory against the Celtics was because he was enraged that the 27-year-old West and his 42-year-old mom were playing tootsies under the sheets.
LeBron found out about the alleged affair before Game 4 of the Boston series. Industry watchers saw LeBron transform himself from a seriously focused ball player on a playoffs win to a passive and unfocused player in Games 4, 5 and 6.
In light of some of the pretty recent public sexcapades of sports figures, perhaps the James-West rumors aren't untrue as West contends: Consider Dwyane Wade's accusation that his wife gave him an STD, gridiron great Lawrence Taylor's rape/sexual assault charge; former major league ball player Dennis Eckersley's revelation that his wife had been sleeping with teammate Rick Manning and soccer sensation John Harkes' confession to his affair with fellow mate Eric Wynalda's wife.
In the meantime, West, who has admitted to suffering bouts of depression, has bigger fish to fry. He is back in Boston and faces a 10-game suspension beginning Oct. 26th, after pleading guilty to carrying three guns and two knifes while on a motorcycle in suburban Washington, D.C.
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By: Gert on 9/29/2010 8:45AM
Whose business is it if LeBrons's mom and the player had a fling? Besides, if the two are not married to others,there is no restriction on their having a fling or anything else!Is it the age thing? If that is the issue, older men have been doing that since the beginning of time!Why is it as though a crime has been committed when women do the same? Men do not have the "one up" on love!Leave them alone!By the way, if LeBron really loves his mother, he should want her to be happy and enjoy her life!
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By: F T Ballard on 9/29/2010 10:12AM
I agree with the comments made above.I feel that LeBron mother is old enough to know what's she doing. And their are hater out their that don't want LeBron and his mother to be Close. I say LeBron don't let know one or anybody come between you and your mother's Love as Son and Mother.
Y'all need to leave these Athletics alone they are during great, in there career. Why try to find something on them? They are during great. Just let them have their privacy.
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By: Emma Sue on 9/30/2010 9:26AM
Who cares, she is a crackhead dragon anyway..... ewwww. Who would wanna do her?
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By: Andrea D. Wheeler on 9/30/2010 2:01PM
How disrespectful are you to say things about someones Mother ,I'm sure you wouldn't want someone saying anything like that about your Mom..
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By: clarke on 9/30/2010 2:34PM
AREN'T THEY BOTH ADULTS? THEN WHO THE HELL CARES? DAMN BV YOU PEOPLE NEED TO CUT THIS DUMB S**T OUT.
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By: poetrysez on 9/30/2010 6:20PM
Everybody involved is grown...and grown folks can do whatever they want...as long as they're not breaking any laws. However, this guy was Lebron's teammate at the time of the alleged relationship-mom's should've passed on that guy!
Lebron's mom can have almost any guy she wants...mostly because she's Lebron's mom (she should've went that route). Another reason Lebron was probably upset was because Delonte has a horrible history with women :{
What made this situation even worse-is that Calvin Murphy-told the public. Therefore-if it's true-unless Calvin was in the bedroom-this Delonte dude had to be less than a man-and told someone else about his relationship with Lebron's mom becasue I doubt if she would've wanted her son to find out like he did! Now-that's foul (flagrant):{
Moms/dads-pass on your son’s/daughter’s teammates because it’s just not kosher :{
The question people should be asking is how the heck Calvin Murphy find out???
I knew Delonte's days with the Calvs were numbered after that story broke ;}
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By: john johnson on 9/30/2010 7:39PM
pants on fire!!! they are grown, but you don't do ur teamates mom!
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By: poetrysez on 9/30/2010 9:36PM
Delonte's basketball skills aren't that great to survive being caught with 3 guns and 2knives-unless he can say it belonged to his split personalities. “Those weapons ain't mine-it belongs to them...boss"!
I was just thinking about the movie Life with Martin L and Eddie M. The scene where the white warden holds’s his Black grandson up near the face of each Black inmate-trying to find out who the baby's daddy is! One by one every inmate steps forth claiming to be the baby's daddy-then Bernie Mac steps forth and says " I'z the pappy...boss" :}
I guess I'll receive a memo about sticking to the blog/topic!
Nah-all joking aside...Delonte needs to take more then the 10 games suspension off-just to truly deal with his depression because that illness is no laughing matter !
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By: jackie smurf on 10/01/2010 1:20AM
The headline is disgraceful! These are two consenting adults..if it were an older man and younger woman the "writer" would be "high-fivin-it up!"
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