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ATLANTA -- Not only does Delonte West not want to be like Charles Barkley when it comes to retiring without a title ring, he won't be taking any similar stances about not being a role model.
The Boston guard recently returned from a 10-day NBA suspension to start the season due a September 2009 incident in which he pleaded guilty to carrying three guns and two knives while on motorcycle outside Washington D.C.
What West said has been reinforced is that he needs to serve as a better example.
"I'm a role model, and I'm put in this position because of my talents to where other people's children out there look up to us,'' West said in an interview with FanHouse before Boston's 99-76 rout of Atlanta on Monday night at Philips Arena. "We got to make sure that we keep that in perspective. It's not about us. And bad decisions grownups should frown upon because their kids watch. I'm just trying to make better decisions, really.''
Still, West has found his name linked to negative situations since then. Just last month, West got into a locker-room fight at practice with teammate Von Wafer, an incident Boston coach Doc Rivers called a "bad day.'' And there were rumors that with Cleveland late last season West had an intimate relationship with Gloria James, the mother of star LeBron James, who soon bolted from the Cavaliers to Miami as a free agent.
Source: http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/11/22/much-maligned-delonte-west-realizes-he-is-a-role-model/
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