Yet Another Fresh Start for Sebastian Telfair

Posted by Kevin Arnovitz No kid in the history of high school athletics saw his young career chronicled with more fanfare than Sebastian Telfair. Ian O'Connor's The Jump, and Jonathan Hock's documentary Through the Fire both captured Telfair's senior year at Abraham Lincoln High School in Coney Island, where Telfair was preparing himself to be basketball's next great phenom. Before Telfair ever suited up in an NBA uniform -- he was drafted 13th overall by Portland in the 2004 draft -- he'd already secured a ten-digit endorsement deal with Adidas, and appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Thursday afternoon, Sebastian Telfair was introduced as a member of the Los Angeles Clippers, his fourth team in a five-year NBA career. The module on the front page of the Clippers' website highlighthing the press conference features a picture of Craig Smith -- Telfair's teammate in Minnesota, who was part of the deal between the T-Wolves and the Clippers. To ...