In another strange chapter in Celtics’ guard Sebastian Telfair’s NBA journey, the Boston Herald reports that he spent the second half of the Celtics’ Tuesday night exhibition game studying police lineups after he was robbed at gunpoint of jewelry on Monday (the incident occured around 10pm as he was leaving dinner).

What’s notable is that Celtics’ coach Doc Rivers actually covered for Telfair stating that he was out with a stomach ailment.   I’m not bothered by that frankly, as it’s really not Rivers’ spot to reveal something like that without knowing Telfair’s feelings about it.

The whole thing is a non-issue to me at least in regards to Telfair’s role.   He was a victim of crime, plain and simple and trying to make anything more out of it is just heaping on.  If the incident had happened later in the evening (such as rapper Fabolous getting shot later that evening at 2 AM)  there might be a story.

Talk amongst yourselves…..