As everyone knows, those two words are "bespectacled" and "besuited." Yet they are used to describe the former Boston Celtics guard in a Slam magazine profile.
In the profile, writer Tzvi Twersky attempts to dispell some myths about West, his bipolar disorder and his 2009 gun arrest. West tells Twersky he is trying to become a spokesman for his psychological disorder.
"Parents come to me and say, 'Thank you. My son's bipolar and nobody understands him, and it just means so much for you to speak on it,'" West says in the story. "I hear that so much from people, it's unreal."
There's also a longer explanation for that '09 incident outside Washington, D.C., when West reportedly was pulled over carrying a Beretta 9 mm handgun, a Ruger .357 magnum, a shotgun in a guitar case and a Bowie knife.
The circumstances as described in the story are much less provocative than the headlines.
"I'm not proud of it," West tells Twersky, "but it looks way worse than it was."
The NBA free agent shares a number of other little-known facts about his private life and insists he's not looking for sympathy. All he's really looking for, it seems, is a new contract.
