‘People who play basketball do not end up in boxing matches.’ ‘Even in the competitive nature of the games, punches aren’t thrown,’ Mahon old House before ordering him taken from the courtroom by sheriff’s deputies. But he had never seen another player throw a punch at another person’s head and leave him unconscious. Mahon told House that he had been a pickup basketball player in his younger days and participated in rough and competitive games. On Wednesday, House, 23, a former shooting guard for the West Chester Golden Rams basketball team from Boothbay, Maine, was sentenced to 30 days to 12 months in Chester County Prison with two years consecutive probation by Common Pleas Court Judge William P. Then House, instead of attending to his victim and helping him, ran from the gym. His father said that in hundreds of games played, he had received less than a handful of technical fouls.īut something snapped in House in December during a pickup game at a West Chester University gym and he threw what a prosecutor called a ‘savage’ punch at an opposing player, knocking the player out cold and leaving him on the court floor with blood streaming from his face. WEST CHESTER – In his days as a high school and college basketball player, Nathan House was never known as a hot head.
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