The National Basketball Association Tuesday suspended Sebastian Telfair for three games after the Minnesota Timberwolves guard pleaded guilty to criminal possession of a weapon.

Telfair was arrested on the gun possession charge after the car he was driving was stopped for speeding in Yonkers, New York, on April 20, 2007.

Telfair, then a member of the Boston Celtics, was charged with misdemeanor possession of a handgun and driving with a suspended license. He was sentenced last month to three years' probation.

(Xinhua News Agency October 15, 2008)