Former NBA player who was drafted out of high school in the 1st round of the 2004 NBA Draft, Sebastian Telfair, was arrested early Sunday in Brooklyn on gun possession-related charges, according to NBC 4 New York News.
Here is an excerpt from the NBC News report on the incident:
Telfair, 32, and his nephew, Jami Thomas, 18, were found with three loaded firearms, a semi-automatic rifle, ammunition and a bullet-resistant vest, police said. Two bags of marijuana and a burning marijuana cigarette were also allegedly found in the 2017 Ford F-150 pickup with Florida plates.
They were parked illegally on the median on Atlantic Avenue near Classon Street, police said.
As officers approached, they started to drive off, according to the source. Police who pulled them over smelled marijuana and saw a lit “blunt” on the dashboard, authorities said.
Here is an image of all of the guns and ammo that were found in Telfair’s car, along with marijuana:
BREAKING: @NBA star Sebastian Telfair arrested in BK with semi-automatic gun, loaded guns, loads of ammunition and marijuana, PD sources pic.twitter.com/6hdhSdyXlS
— Myles Miller (@MylesMill) June 11, 2017
That is not just your everyday form of self-protection.
Telfair, 32, has been out of the NBA since the 2014-15 season as a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder, and played 11 seasons in the NBA for eight different teams, averaging 7.4 points and 3.5 assists in 21 minutes per game in his NBA career.
He never quite lived up to the billing of being a New York high school basketball legend at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, and never reached the super-stardom that many saw for him as the rare point guard to be drafted straight out of high school.
