Mark Cuban is helping this former NBA star find recovery

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been working to help former NBA player Delonte West deal with mental health struggles.

Published: Sept 29, 2020, 3:00 p.m. MDT

Cavaliers’ Delonte West, right, passes by Bobcats’ Raymond Felton in his season debut. — Cleveland Cavaliers’ Delonte West, right, passes by then Charlotte Bobcats player Raymond Felton during an NBA game. Tony Dejak, Associated Press

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban told ESPN that he picked up former NBA star Delonte West from a gas station to help the NBA player recover from is mental health struggles.

Earlier this week, photos and videos of West on the streets asking for money surfaced online.

This came months after more photos and videos showed West on the streets rambling and shirtless. His former teammates — like Jameer Nelson — expressed concern for the player at the time, as I wrote about for Deseret.com.

Delonte West’s former teammates call for help for former NBA star

One video showed West shirtless on a sidewalk. Someone asks West why he hit somebody. West replies that a man with a gun approached him. He rambles on.
Many reactions filtered online about seeing the former NBA player on the streets and homeless.

A Delonte West update, as people close to the ex-NBA player going through very difficult personal struggle continue to offer help: Sources say Mavs owner Mark Cuban reunited West with his mother in Dallas on Monday — and now West has checked into rehab facility in Florida.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) September 29, 2020

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Cuban is now reportedly helping West recover. According to ESPN, Cuban has been encouraging West to enter a drug rehab facility. Cuban has offered to pay for the treatment.

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