MINNEAPOLIS - It was after 4 a.m. when Dante Cunningham pulled his truck back into the driveway of his suburban Minneapolis home and saw the police waiting for him.Officers put the handcuffs on the Minnesota Timberwolves reserve as soon as his feet hit the pavement. The reality of his situation and the domestic assault charges that were on their way didnt sink in until he was lying in a jail cell and the lights went out.The whole time I was like, Im OK. Im out of here. Things will be fine, Cunningham recalled. Then it went dark and I was like, This is not a joke. Im really in this.In the six months since, the charges have been dropped and police concluded Cunninghams accuser fabricated some of the allegations against him. But those six months have also seen domestic violence in sports thrust into the headlines like never before, thanks in part to the Ray Rice scandal in the NFL, and Cunningham feels as if those handcuffs have never been taken off.He is now an ex-Timberwolves forward, an NBA free agent who is living in a motorhome at a campground near Penn State, where a former college teammate is on the coaching staff and runs him through workouts. He lives in the motorhome because he enjoys it, not because hes broke, but the journeyman player who was hoping to get a multimillion-dollar contract this summer says he hasnt even gotten an offer for the league minimum because teams have told them its not worth the bad publicity that could come if they bring him in.At this point its about justice and its about clearing my name, the 27-year-old forward told The Associated Press. Clearly this adds a terrible stigma to my name. ... Now when anyone looks up Dante Cunningham, oh, wasnt he the one that was in trouble? Theres nothing out there saying there was a false charge.Cunningham helped Villanova reach the Final Four as a senior, but what really attracted NBA scouts was his blue-collar mentality. The Portland Trail Blazers drafted him in the second round in 2009 and he signed a three-year deal worth more than $6 million with Memphis in 2011 before he was traded to Minnesota the following year.Cunningham met Miryah Herron last year and lived with her for eight months in a whirlwind start to their relationship. The two had an argument April 3, and thats where their stories take wildly divergent paths.Herron told police Cunningham kicked in the door to their bedroom, choked her and slammed her head against the wall. Cunningham says he kicked the door in more than a week earlier after he accidentally locked his keys in the room. He also says the only time he touched Herron was when he grabbed her wrist to get her to stop hanging on his truck as he drove away to cool off.Cunningham missed one game while he was in jail, but the team and league did not suspend him under a collectively bargained policy of letting the legal process play out before deciding on a potential punishment.Cunningham was arrested again three days later after Herron told police that he violated a protection order by calling her from his hotel room phone and sending her threatening messages on Skype. A police investigation found Herron apparently sent the messages herself in an attempt to frame Cunningham.Herron denies that and maintains she was assaulted by Cunningham.That was not Dante that night, Herron told the AP. That sounds crazy, but honestly speaking, that was not the guy I was in love with, that was not the guy I laid in bed with every night, thats not the guy I woke up with every morning. That was not him. And I honestly blame alcohol for that.Police said alcohol was not a factor in the case. They also recommended that Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman charge Herron with making a false police report for the second incident, but he told the AP he was reluctant to do so in part because he feared a chilling effect on future victims of domestic violence.As dependable as Cunningham is on the court, hes not the kind of game-changing talent that could prompt a team to look past the incident to sign him.Cunninghams agent, Joel Bell, estimates Cunningham could have landed a deal paying him more than $4 million per season were it not for the charge. He said he was told as recently as Monday by one team that they couldnt risk the public relations trouble that could come from signing him.Two executives with NBA teams told the AP the domestic violence charge was not a deal-breaker for their teams to consider Cunningham, but it definitely made it more difficult. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly on team personnel decisions.Players union executive director Michele Roberts said she has had substantive dialogue with the league about addressing domestic violence and educating players and their families. But as a former public defender, she is also an advocate for due process.I dont, quite frankly, know what the rush is, Roberts said. Many of the teams are saying, until this is resolved Id like at least for you to not play. Im not fond of that.While Cunningham was facing the charges, he was booed by home fans and the Timberwolves were criticized for allowing him to play in games.They think Im a bad person, Cunningham said. Cmon. Im a great person. Give me that chance. Ive been stripped of that. You have to understand that. Thats terrible. Awful. And if I dont have my name, what do I have? Craig Hartsburg Jersey . Now he has a complete game. 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Marleau ranks first on the Sharks career list for points, goals, power play goals, short-handed goals, game-winning goals and shots. Wilson has always done a good job locking up his key players before they hit free agency at below market prices. Thornton is taking a slight pay cut from his expiring three-year deal that pays him an average of $7 million a year. Marleau also took a slight pay cut from the four-year deal that pays him an average of $6.9 million a year. With these deals done, the Sharks have locked up almost all of their important players before free agency starts in July. The one key remaining potential unrestricted free agent is 37-year-old defenceman Dan Boyle. The Sharks have already reached long-term deals with defenceman Marc-Edouard Vlasic, and forwards Logan Couture, Joe Pavelski and Brent Burns. 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