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Delonte West, having missed a couple days of training camp is back, albeit with unexcused absences. West belongs to the Cleveland Cavaliers, and according to coach, Mike Brown, after having West back, he had a good practice with the team.

Currently facing issues that might affect his career, he declined meeting the press, together with general manager Danny Ferry.

The team’s Mr. Ferry will be addressing this current issue West is facing on Saturday, at the team’s practice at the University of Akron.

This current issue pertains to the time he was caught in Maryland. West was asked to pull over by the traffic police of Maryland because of a traffic violation. He, then, pulled over his three-wheeled motorcycle and upon checking, was found out that he was carrying loaded weapons. That is right! Not only one, but three loaded weapons. A couple of loaded handguns, and one loaded shotgun. These items were placed in a guitar case.

Currently facing charges of gun possessions, possible consequence that West could receive as outcome could be a league suspension.

O’Neil feels that West is quite important to the team, and according to him, they will be supporting and backing him up. He believes that not only is he vital to the team, but is a fabulous player as well.

West’s statistics has him having eleven point seven points during the regular season last year, and is considered one of the second most important players in the playoffs after LeBron James.

Post season has West playing forty two minutes, and having an average of thirteen point eight points,  four assists and three point five rebounds, in all fourteen games.

Now you can see why O’Neil is ensuring that the public and team officials be fair in coming up with a decision over West’s current dilemma, and hopefully, be able to have him play in the coming season.

The middleweight Billy Lyell (19-7, 3 KOs) overthrows top middleweight contender John Duddy (26-1, 17 KOs) by a 10-round split decision at the Prudential Center, in Neward, New Jersey. It was a shocking defeat when the final judges gave a score of 96-94, 98-92 for Lyell, and 97-93 for Duddy.

The fight is supposed to be a stepping stone for Duddy to win a title shot, considering it was theoretically to be an easy fight as well. Duddy’s movements slowed when he was thrown with several punches from the first round on.

The distance that Duddy kept trying to maintain a fight at a distance did not work out when Lyell was continually worked his way inside where he pounded Duddy with his hooks to the body and head. Duddy, then, could not just keep up with Lyell. Lyell jumped all over the slow moving Duddy to make his way for victory. He took the opportunity that Duddy could not match up with his movements and was overwhelmed by the thrown punches, which made him a terrible inside figher.

The 29-year old Duddy hoped of getting a shot at World Boxing Organization (WBO) or at WBC middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik. However, he still has a chance to get that hope of having a title shot against one of the champions due to his popularity, but he would not be able to get in position for awhile after such loss.

Last year, Duddy was also beaten by Walid Smichet. He came within an eyelash of being beaten, escaping with a controversial 10-round majority decision over the Canadian based Smichet. In fact, Duddy’s face was nearly torn apart in that fight, which required extensive stitches to repair the cuts.

And the recent game held at new Jersey is no longer new to boxing viewers when the decision was made overthrowing Duddy by Lyell due to the previous loss that Duddy had in the previous year.