Just Another NBA Thug

Ok, first of all Sebastian admitted to the mistake of the gun. He ended up with his girlfriend's purse on the road trip and in it was her gun, not Sebastian's gun. He did make a mistake in not telling anybody about it, but it's not like he was taking it somewhere to put it to use. He's not a thug, despite what you believe.

And he's not that great of a player? What is he now, 20 years old? I think I'll give a guy a little more time in the league before I judge him as "not that great." Last few games for the Blazers he is actually playing very well, and has re-earned his starting role.

Give the guy time. He'll be a starter in this league for the majority of his career, and within a few years should be one of the best point guards around.

Before seeing the documentary my perception of Telfair was that he was an arrogant thug. However, after seeing the documentary, he's clearly just the opposite. He's well spoken, well groomed, and he doesn't have one tattoo.

Also, he's one hell of a hard worker who has talent and built upon that. He's young, and he'll continue to improve and become a solid pro. The list of "initial busts" that turn into solid pros by year 3 is long and distinguished. He just finished year 2 and has played much more than most of them thus far.

Jamel was being a role model to his brother and keeping him straight. Being positive and up beat coming from where he's from is great accomplishment. If his mom was to say the same thing then it wouldnt matter. Everyone is part of his upbringing and taking care of the younger kids in the family. Im sure Sebastian does the same for his little brother. As for the gun thing, I'll take him for his word. Last time I checked, Portland wasn't too dangerous, although my brother has visited and said there pretty racist out there.

I liked how he kept telling everyone he was still going to Louisville, even though he'd clearly already decided he was going pro. Pretty deceitful for a 17 year old kid.

Tell me the NBA is not full of thugs.

Look at Carmelo Anthony a guy the NBA wanted to make a golden boy.

He gets caught on video threatening a guy if the guy talks to the police.

What a joke. And he was supposted to be one of the good guys.

To me it's like baseball. I now assume all baseball players are cheaters on HGH or roids.

And I assume all NBA Players think they are tough guys that have to carry to keep their street cred.

Not to mention it is the biggest joke in the world a large percentage of the NBA are drug users to at least the level of pot.

And anybody that says Telfair carried that gun on the plane by accident is pretty naive or just plain ignorant.

Does he study the Qur'an?

I'd like to respond to whyteout7791-1 because he seems to ASSume things...So because "black people do commit about 70 percent of the crime in the US" (I'd love to see your source for that), that means most black people are going to commit a crime because "most of them are poor"?

Since you totally seemed to miss the point, I'm making the argument that it is dumb to judge a book by its cover because not all people "fit the profile" based on outward appearance alone. Do you have the ability to recognize I used the mass murderer-cannibal/ white people analogy to show how ridiculous is is to assume that just because someone is white that they are going to kill you and fry you up in a pan? You say you don't care but maybe you should...

If I were stupid I would just assume that Caucasians are ignorant and moronic cannibals based your demonstration of such in your post; I do not think this because I know there are good and bad people of all backgrounds. Its dumb to just carelessly assume that I will cause you harm just because I'm black, or that I'm black so I must be a "poor" thug looking to rob you (I am not a guy BTW, I am female). Its THOUGHTLESS people like you that are REALLY what's wrong with our world today...