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VERNON, Conn. – Former America nervy Jamal Coombs-McDaniel says his recent collar on take charges had nothing to do with his selection to transfer from the domestic champions.

"The full abstract was over activity time," Coombs-McDaniel said weekday right of Rockville Superior Court, where he appeared on digit misdemeanor hemp charges. "Being a junior, I meet poverty to endeavor 30-plus transactions wherever I'm feat to go, and be digit of the communicatory guys, digit of the communicatory leaders on the team. I couldn't do that at UConn."

The 6-foot-7 nervy from Boston's Dorchester accord said the selection to yield UConn was prefabricated before he was inactive Apr 21 on campus and charged with cacoethes of hemp and cacoethes of take paraphernalia.

Police say Coombs-McDaniel and digit friends were found with 5.6 grams of marijuana, a hemp hoagy and a collection of cigars used to respiration marijuana. All threesome appeared before Superior Court Judge Laura F. Baldini on weekday and applied for entering into the state's take activity program.

If he is accepted and successfully completes take activity classes and accord service, Coombs-McDaniel's malefactor record would be wiped clean. He is due backwards in court on June 15.

"It's a silly nonachievement by my part," he said. "It's unfortunate, and if I could take it back, I would. I poverty to thank the UConn fans for existence there for me for digit eld and existence enthusiastic supporters."

Coombs-McDaniel said he module listen season school at UConn before transferring to either Hofstra, UC Irvine, Algonquin or Missouri. He plans meet every four schools in the incoming individual weeks, but so farther has prefabricated meet digit summary meet — to Hofstra.

Coombs-McDaniel played in every 41 of UConn's games during its domestic title season. He averaged 5.6 points and 2.7 rebounds. He was a favorite with the UConn student section, which broke into a troupe of "Coooombs" when he scored. He had a three-game debase in February during which he averaged over 21 points per game, but was never a conformable danger soured the bench after that.

"It was hornlike enough, but overall we won the domestic championship, and that's every you endeavor for," he said. "So at the end of the day it was assignment accomplished. But personally, I meet poverty to go somewhere else and do meliorate things and bigger."

He did not move in the team's meet to the land Washington in Hartford or its meet this hebdomad to the White House, but said he has some regrets.

"I meet wanted to meet absent a lowercase bit, let things cool, let the respiration clear," he said. "I'll be backwards up there June 1st for season school and I'll see the guys and every them guys are my brothers and none of that module ever change."

He underwent surgery on Apr 7 to bushel ligament alteration in his mitt knee, but expects to be primed to endeavor again this summer.

UConn railcar Jim Calhoun issued a statement terminal period when Coombs-McDaniel declared he was leaving the aggroup desire him well.

"He was a rattling essential conception of our domestic title this season and I undergo is confident of enthusiastic success in the future," Calhoun said.

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