Sebastian Telfair was dropped by the Boston Celtics yesterday, four days after he was arrested on a gun charge.
"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," said Celtic managing partner Wic Grousbeck yesterday.
Grousbeck did not say how the team would handle the remaining season on Telfair's contract, which paid the Brooklyn-born 21-year-old just under $1.8 million for the 2006-07 campaign.
Telfair, who at 6-foot was the shortest player ever drafted straight out of high school, had a disappointing season with the Celtics. He started just 30 of the 78 games he played after being traded from the Portland Trail Blazers last June.
The Lincoln HS phenom averaged just six points a game and the Celtics finished at the bottom of the NBA's Eastern Conference, with a worse record than even the Knicks.
Telfair, who has nine brothers and sisters and grew up in the rough Coney Island projects, still supports 17 relatives on his NBA salary.
(NY Post)
