- Former
NBA starDelonte West is now working at the Florida rehabilitation center he attended last year, The Athletic reports. - West was admitted to the Rebound Therapy Center in Florida with the help of Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
- Cuban picked West up from a Dallas gas station after troubling photos emerged online of the 37-year-old at an intersection.
Former NBA star Delonte West is now working at the same Florida rehabilitation center he attended last year, according to a reporter from The Athletic.
West, who has a history of mental-health and substance-related struggles, was captured on video in January 2020 being beaten in the street by an unknown person.
According to TMZ, a witness told police that West initiated the confrontation by attacking the other man with a glass bottle.
After the footage emerged, a number of former teammates and coaches of West's offered solidarity and help to him, however nothing was heard about him in public for a number of months.
Then in September, photos surfaced of West standing at a Dallas intersection holding a sign, appearing to be homeless.
Soon after those photos appeared, the 37-year-old was picked up at a gas station by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who took West to the Rebound Therapy Center in Florida, where, alongside West's estranged mother, he helped him get admitted.
Throughout the final months of 2020, Cuban shared several images of West during his road to recovery from his struggles, including one of him kayaking, and another of him playing disc golf.
The Athletic's Shams Charania reported this week that the former Mavericks guard is now an employee at the same facility he attended at the end of 2020.
"Update on Delonte West: West now has a job at the Rebound therapy center in Florida, which is the rehab facility he attended," he tweeted.
"Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban reunited West with his mother in September and has stayed in close contact."
—Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) January 19, 2021
West began his NBA career at the Boston Celtics as the 24th overall pick in the 2004 NBA Draft.
He went on to play for the Seattle Supersonics, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Mavericks, before retiring in 2015 after a spell with the Texas Legends of the NBA D-League.
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