PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A former Portland Trail Blazer will spend eight years in prison for raping a woman at a Lake Oswego party. Ben McLemore was found guilty on Thursday, July 3, in a Clackamas County courtroom. He was found guilty of rape and sexual abuse of a woman at the home of former Blazer Robert Covington in October 2021.

Former NBA player Ben McLemore was sentenced to more than eight years in prison on Wednesday following last week’s rape conviction.

Ben McLemore was given a prison sentence of more than eight years after a jury found him guilty of raping a woman in 2021