Does his hairdo affect Cavaliers guard Delonte Wests performance?
It’s like that Samson guy from the Bible — but backward. Guy gets haircut; guy gets stronger. The guy here is Cavaliers guard Delonte West. Throughout the team’s record-shattering regular season, West went back and forth between wearing his trademark red hair in corn-row braids and sporting a combed-out Afro that got longer and longer as the season progressed. Related story: • Combing through Delonte West’s stats “In Cleveland during the wintertime, it’s not a pretty place to be,” said West after a team practice last week. “It’s cold out here. I live right off of Lake Erie, so on the cold mornings eventually you just say forget it. It’s like you’re out in the mountains somewhere. You just let it grow.” Over in South Euclid, Eva Hendricks, not much of a hoops fan, humored her boyfriend, Chris, by sitting and watching games with him. She didn’t even know how to say the Cavs star’s name. “I was actually calling him ‘Del Monte,’ like the pineapple,” she said, laughing. But when she notice
