DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Tailgate Forum Celtics cutting ties with Telfair.....Should Cavs take a flier?

Considering how cap strapped we are, (and how we're without a 1st round pick), should the Cavs look in to Telfair? He is just 21years old and does have a lot of talent.....and considering I just don't see any other way the Cavs could add a young, talented PG this off season I would probably take a chance on him. Thoughts??

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Celtics cutting ties with Telfair
Point guard won't be part of team after recent arrest

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/basketball/nba/04/24/telfair.celtics.ap/index.html

BOSTON (AP) -- The Boston Celtics are severing ties with guard Sebastian Telfair just days after he was arrested in New York with a loaded gun in his car.

Team managing partner Wyc Grousbeck said Telfair, who was the 13th pick in the draft in 2004 and is coming off a disappointing first season with the Celtics, would not be back with the team.

"The facts and circumstances of his case have not been determined, but he does not have a Celtics locker and we do not anticipate that he will," Grousbeck said in an e-mail. He did not say how the team would handle the remaining season on Telfair's contract.

Telfair's attorney, Ed Hayes, told The Associated Press the Celtics are rushing to judgment.

"It always bothers me when you punish a guy so severely before there's been a finding of fact. I think that's wrong whether it happens in Durham (N.C) or in Boston," Hayes said, referring to the Duke lacrosse rape case.

Hayes said Telfair is a "nice, nice guy" who has no drug problems, has never hurt anybody and supports 17 relatives on his NBA salary since being drafted out of high school.

"He's come so far and done so well, I don't think you have to throw him overboard," Hayes said.

Telfair, 21, of Brooklyn, was arrested early Friday after police in Yonkers, N.Y., stopped him for speeding and found a loaded handgun under a seat in his SUV.

Telfair did not have a valid license, and police said he and his passenger told them they knew nothing of the gun.

Telfair pleaded not guilty to a charge of felony second-degree possession of a weapon, and was released Friday on $7,500 bail.

At the time, Grousbeck said players had been explicitly warned to obey the team and league gun prohibition, as well as state laws, and that the team would act accordingly once the facts had been determined.

Hayes said the gun was registered to Telfair's girlfriend, whom he said was Telfair's common law wife, and that Telfair was borrowing the SUV she normally uses.

This was not Telfair's first trouble with guns.

While with Portland in February 2006, he was questioned after a handgun registered to his girlfriend was found in his pillowcase aboard the team's plane at Hanscom Field in Bedford, outside of Boston. The Trail Blazers later fined Telfair and suspended him for two days.

Last October, police questioned Telfair about the shooting of rapper Fabolous after a $50,000 necklace was stolen from Telfair at the same club the night Fabolous was shot. Telfair said he wasn't there at the time of the shooting.

The Celtics acquired Telfair from Portland last June 28 on the day of the NBA draft. As part of the five-player deal, Portland received Randy Foye of Villanova, who the Celtics had taken with the No. 7 pick in the draft.

Boston hoped Telfair would become its regular point guard but he struggled as the season progressed and started just 30 of the 78 games he played. He averaged 20.2 minutes, 6.1 points and 2.8 assists per game. In two years with Portland, Telfair averaged 8.1 points and 3.5 assists.

He is just a waste of money no matter how cheap he is.

If I recall correctly, the reason the Jail Blazers got rid of him was due to character issues. He's proven that was justified with this latest arrest. My opinion is no, don't do it.

He messed up in Portland......got a second chance and messed up in the same way with Boston. Hey Telfair, if you need protection that bad, hire a body guard. Leave the gun at home.

The Cavs shouldn't even bother calling his agent.

...and there was a reason why Boston was one of the worst teams in the league (he helped).

From a talent standpoint I wouldn't even take a chance on him. He was ok in Portland and did nothing to really help Boston. Those two are the bottom feeders of the NBA. He averaged 6 pts a game and only shot a pathetic 37% from the field. He's a bad 3 pt shooter, isn't exactly Nash at the PG, and has numerous off the court issues. He is an emphatic no from any GM with any sense. The guy is not the talent everyone made him out to be coming into the league. This guy couldn't earn a roster spot with the Hawks right now imo.

I'm a C's fan. He's bad.

simple as that. He's not ready for the NBA yet. he should go play in the D-league

We don't need that idiot on the Cavs

nah, i would maybe consider it if he were a better player... but no good can come out of taking a bad player with personal problems... even with the need for a point guard with this team...