Rookie forward Darrell Arthur seemed genuinely contrite during our face-to-face meeting Thursday afternoon in FedExForum.

His mom, Sandra, probably put it best when she said Darrell’s hormones were raging. It’s fairly common to have the sight of beautiful women cloud a young man’s judgment.

Fortunately for Arthur, the hotel incident (involving women and evidence of marijuana) that expelled him from the NBA’s rookie transition program apparently won’t cloud NIKE’s judgment. The major shoe company made a verbal commitment to Arthur last week and informed the former Kansas star that they will indeed honor the deal and sign him to a contract.