Robert Covington Rumors

Former Trail Blazer Robert Covington took the witness stand Wednesday in the rape trial of former teammate Ben McLemore, testifying that he saw a woman trying to arouse McLemore while the two were on a couch in Covington’s Lake Oswego home in the predawn hours of Oct. 3, 2021. The woman testified last week that McLemore raped her as she lay under a blue blanket incapacitated after a night of drinking at Covington’s home.

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Covington acknowledged that he wasn’t in the living room after he had gone to his bedroom and didn’t see all that may have occurred between McLemore and the woman accusing McLemore of rape. “It’s none of my business. I literally watched something happen and because they’re adults, I removed myself,” Covington said. Asked whether he was concerned that a woman had been passed out drunk on his living room couch for hours, Covington said he was not. Her friends had been checking on her, and he said he got her to drink some more water, he said.

Oregonian

A woman told a Clackamas County jury on Wednesday that former Trail Blazer Ben McLemore raped her as she lay incapacitated after a night of heavy drinking at the Lake Oswego home of another former Blazer, Robert Covington, in the fall of 2021. The woman, who was then 21, said she did not know McLemore, 32, before the night of Oct. 2 when she and three friends arrived at Covington’s house for a party.

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Former Portland Trail Blazer Ben McLemore is scheduled to go on trial this week on allegations that he raped a woman at a Lake Oswego home, with testimony expected from at least one old teammate, Robert Covington.

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Noah Levick: Kelly Oubre Jr.'s up to eight steals. First time a Sixers has had eight since Robert Covington on Nov. 27, 2015. PHI dropped to 0-17 then w/loss to HOU. Started Covington, Grant, Okafor, Canaan, Sampson. T.J. McConnell, who'd go on to have 10-stl. game in 2021, came off bench.

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Covington said he had chances to play this season — but didn’t specify where — and said slowly ramping up for this USA training camp and qualifying window was the better option for him. “This is a great opportunity just to show people that I’m healthy,” Covington said. “I’ve got four or five years left of basketball in me.”

New York Times

With you trying to get back to an NBA team, what do you think you can bring to a team? Robert Covington: The same thing I bought to everything that I’ve been on. Ain’t nothing changed. Someone that can give energy on the other side, the defensive side, can come in space the floor, move the ball, do the little things that won’t show up on the stat sheet, what made me very effective.

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Throughout your career, you were involved in five trades, including a couple that involved Jimmy Butler and James Harden. How did your thought process change when you first got traded to your most recent one? Robert Covington: I learned that people can say one thing and do another, it’s just the business side of it. They gotta do what’s best for them. My first trade really hurt and hit me because I heard about it for so long. Because I know it’s the business side and the person that I was in trade talks for is somebody that I knew could benefit the program. And if that was the case, I just wanna be prepared so I can prepare for my next phase. And it didn’t happen that way. I harped on that for a little while and I felt some type of way about it at first but then it got to the point where I go because it’s the basketball side of it, and that is how the business goes.

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What situation would you say was the most adversity you faced in the league? Robert Covington: The Clippers. Playing time and just not knowing if I was gonna play. So that was the hardest thing, but I still embraced it and just waited for my opportunity, and when my opportunity showed and came, I was ready.

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Who was your favorite coach you played for? Robert Covington: Brett Brown. He made it more than just basketball. He taught us about life, taught us about different things. Just to help us go through that tough phase that we were in, in The Process years. He’s one of my favorite coaches. The things I learned from him and the coaching staff, my player development coach, Lloyd Pierce, will stay with me forever.

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When you speak now about trying to come to terms with things and then at the same time trying to get back in the league, and then when you look back at how your career began, coming in with a chip on your shoulder just trying to get on a team. Do you see a lot of similarities there? Robert Covington: What transpired in Philly last year does not signify anything about what it is right now. What happened in L.A. does not signify anything right now, even though I didn’t play, I sat back as a great teammate and just did what I was supposed to. I was myself and no matter what things have transpired, I just stay true to myself and just keep working.

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Law Murray: One of Paul George's concerns while he was still with the Clippers last season was being a "Glue Guy" after Batum and Covington were traded Batum said today that PG wanted Nico to stay in Philly -- For now, PG has to remain a #GlueGuy in 76ers lineup pic.x.com/JHSWXF25qO

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Tucker told The Athletic after Saturday’s game that he is with the team “for now,” suggesting that he hasn’t been thrilled with his status. It’s another event in a thread of an unideal union between Tucker and the Clippers since last year’s trade that sent Batum, Marcus Morris Sr., Robert Covington, KJ Martin and draft compensation to the Philadelphia 76ers for James Harden, Tucker and Filip Petrušev.

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Robert Covington: This debate is ridiculous 🤦🏽‍♂️

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