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Former Portland Trail Blazers player Sebastian Telfair sentenced to prison

It’s June 24, 2004. Sebastian Telfair had the whole world at his fingertips. With the No. 13 overall selection, Telfair would go on stage and throw on a Portland Trail Blazers cap. His natural talent was enough to make NBA scouts swoon, but he could never stay out of trouble. This time, hell be serving 3.5 years in prison for carrying a loaded gun in his vehicle back in 2017.

Joseph Spector of USA Today was the first to break details regarding Telfair’s fate with the law.

Former NBA player Sebastian Telfair, a Brooklyn native, sentenced to three and a half years in prison for gun possession, says @BrooklynDA pic.