Kentavious Caldwell-Pope won his second championship ring in 2023. The 6-foot-5-inch shooting guard is currently a role player on the Denver Nuggets team and is a contender to win the title once again.
Caldwell-Pope has previously won a championship when he was the starting shooting guard on the 2020 Los Angeles Lakers team that won the finals in the NBA bubble. Caldwell-Pope isn’t exactly a regular in the news but over the year he’s had his fair share of controversies.
In 2017, due to eyewitnesses at a game and multiple reports, it was revealed that Kentavious Caldwell-Pope was playing games for the Lakers while wearing an ankle monitor. An ankle monitor is a bracelet-like device that transmits information about its wearer to a remote monitoring center.
Detainees are consistently behind a fixed boundary and are not permitted to go out anywhere beyond their jurisdiction or attempt to. However, if a detainee is permitted to play in the NBA, he can do so by wearing an ankle monitor to confirm to the police his whereabouts.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope was found guilty of driving under the influence in 2017
In the 2017 offseason, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope known as “KCP” signed a deal with the Los Angeles Lakers to the tune of $18 million. He started the season playing very well off the bench and soon became a crucial part of the rotation as a spot-up shooter for LeBron James to pass to.
However, some of that good fortune took a hit in March of 2017 as KCP was stopped by police while driving 75 mph in a 25 mph zone. They suspected that he was under the influence of alcohol but that was not the case, as he was found guilty of permitting someone else to drive under his influence.
KCP really gotta hoop with that GPS ankle bracelet smh pic.twitter.com/c3o9kRi6K3
— Swoosh🏁 (@JohnnyHSD) December 26, 2017
This charge meant that KCP had to serve a one-year probation sentence. If his probation conditions were violated this would mean 25 days spent in jail, with an additional 93 days to come if violated a second time. Due to Caldwell Pope’s social status and sizeable paycheck, he filed to serve his 25-day jail time in California’s Seal Beach Detention Centre, which was a hotspot for wealthy law offenders looking for leniency.
Due to these conditions and his work as an NBA player, Caldwell-Pope was allowed to attend practice games as well as play in home games on the condition that he would wear an ankle monitor at all times.