Early Life and Professional Career

West started playing his high school basketball in Eleanor Roosevelt High School. Here, he played with Raiders and excelled in high school basketball career. The worth mentioning is the Raiders’s participation in 41 Maryland Championship. West scored 22 points with 8 rebounds. Throughout his high school career he always scored in double digits except one game. He was also named as the Washington Post All Met Player of the Year.

West’s college career at the St. Joseph University was also outstanding. Here, he was the backcourt with Jameer Nelson. His average scores were 18.9 points per game. Due to countless struggle of West, St. Joseph’s hawks reached NCAA tournament with elite 8 appearance.

Professional Career with NBA

After leaving St. Joseph University, West started his NBA career with Boston Celtics, In 2004 NBA Draft. Due to too many injuries West could not play much in his first season. He was a starter in 2005-6 seasons. In the same season he replaced Jameer Nelson and played in sophomore team. He had an outstanding career with Celtics from 2004 to 2007. In 2008 west was traded with Seattle Supersonics and later with Cleveland Cavaliers in the same year. Here, he showed his talent as a backcourt player. His best game was against Miami Heat on 2nd March, 2009. West was traded with Minnesota Timberwolves and then returned back to the Boston Celtics, where he signed a one year contract. Due to weapon charges proved against him, he was suspended for the first ten games of the season. Texas Legends of the NBA development League acquired him. From 2013 to 2015, west played with China’s Fujian XunXing, Los Angeles, Clippers, Shanghai Sharks and Guaros de Lara.

Texas Legends Re acquired him on 12th March, 2015. West Played 32 games in his career with 258 games as starter and field goal percentage of .442. He has an average RPG of 2.9 and PPG of 9.7.

Personal Life

The African American Delonte west, suffered so any problems during his career. West married to his wife Cressa Suzzette Madden in the year 2013. It is said that he was suffering from bipolar disorder. West never admitted this and always refuted it. He was of the opinion that his behavior was as a result of the temporary lifestyle spent during basketball play offs. It was also a rumor about him on twitter that he was in relationship with LeBorn James' mother Gloria James in 2010. The rumor actually affected the West’s reputation in Basketball Circle. This was personally admitted by him too, during an interview with Vice Sports.