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West in 2011, photo by Prphotos
Birth Name: Delonte Maurice West
Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., U.S.
Date of Birth: July 26, 1983
Ethnicity: African-American, European, possibly Piscataway Native American
Delonte West is an American professional basketball player. A point guard and shooting guard, he played for Saint Joseph’s in college; and for the Boston Celtics, the Seattle SuperSonics, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Dallas Mavericks, and the Texas Legends of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and Fujian Xunxing and Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He is 6′3″.
He is said to have African-American, Piscataway Native American, and European ancestry. Reports are that his mother is dark-skinned while his father is light-skinned. He is described as the lightest in his family, with his brothers being of darker complexion.
Delonte has two children with his former wife Caressa Madden.