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.

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

McLemore will now spend 100 months in state prison as ordered by the judge. The charges stemmed from claims made in October 2021 by a 21-year-old woman regarding an incident at a