I loved the piece, thought it sounded sincere, and a lot of times besides the "Player X" thing ESPN does (which if you haven't read them, do it now. Nascar, football, basketball, it doesn't matter what sport, its insightful.
Here is a link), it sounds like whatever is put out there was run through a PR Filter.
But this part kind of weirded me out:
I don't know if I'm prepared to answer this. You want to know who is Delonte West? I'm not going with what Nate Robinson would like me to say. He says I'm the Joker from the Batman movie. I'm not going to allow Nate to label me.
Now I bet Delonte was going for an easy example of the lockerroom camaraderie and a good natured dig at Nate. But, to me it reads like one of those party jokes that goes off like a lead balloon.