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How embarrassing for the 2011 NBA champs. You know how the old saying goes: you can take the NBA player out of the hood, but you can’t take the hood out of the player.
According to online reports, Dallas Mavericks player Deshawn Stevenson was posterized by the Dallas police department.
He was arrested and charged with public drunkenness yesterday in Dallas.
Not many people outside of Dallas even know who this guy is, so Stevenson made a little name for himself by creating a t-shirt mocking LeBron James of the Miami Heat. The t-shirt read: “HEY LEBRON! HOW’S MY DIRK TASTE?” The jab was a play on the name of his Mavs teammate, Dirk Nowinski.
It looks like LeBron gets the last laugh on Deshawn.
Update: Loyal reader DMisses dug up this little gem about Stevenson getting arrested for statutory rape. Wow, he sounds like a real class act.
Utah Jazz rookie DeShawn Stevenson has been charged with statutory rape for having sex with a 14-year-old girl, a prosecutor said today. Stevenson, a guard who went from high school directly to the NBA last year, was charged last week in Fresno Superior Court, chief deputy district attorney Liz Mitchell said.
The 20-year-old Stevenson, a Fresno native, faces up to three years in state prison if convicted. His whereabouts today were not immediately known. Stevenson is accused of having sex with the girl during a visit to Fresno in the past six weeks, Mitchell said. She didn’t have any other details.
“I didn’t even know he played basketball,” Mitchell said. “I have no idea what he was doing in Fresno.”
This is the second time Stevenson has run into legal troubles since he was drafted in the first round by Utah last year, the 23rd pick overall.
So if that was the second time he got into trouble I wonder what was the first?
