The Celtics are releasing guard Sebastian Telfair days after he was arrested in Yonkers, N.Y., and charged with carrying a loaded gun in his car.Team managing partner Wyc Grousbeck said Telfair, coming off a disappointing first season with the Celtics, wouldn't be back with the team. Telfair pleaded not guilty to felony second-degree possession of a weapon and was released Friday on $7,500 bail.
"The facts and circumstances of his case have not been determined, but he does not have a Celtics locker and we do not anticipate that he will," Grousbeck said in an e-mail Tuesday. He didn't say how the final year on Telfair's contract would be handled.Telfair's attorney, Ed Hayes, told The Associated Press the Celtics are rushing to judgment.Hayes said the gun found in Telfair's SUV was registered to Telfair's common law wife and that Telfair was borrowing the SUV she normally uses.While with Portland in February 2006, Telfair was questioned after a handgun registered to the same woman was found in his luggage aboard the team's plane at Hanscom Field in Bedford, Mass.Charges against Allen dismissed: Judge James Linn dismissed charges of aggravated battery against Celtics guard Tony Allen on the second day of a trial stemming from a fight in August 2005 outside a Chicago restaurant. Allen still faces a civil suit.
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