Stolen Sean Elliott jerseys returned

 TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Two stolen jerseys that had been on display at a high school in honor of San Antonio Spurs star Sean Elliott were returned Monday.

 Chris Gallego, a former Cholla High School class president, told police he recently bought the jerseys from a man who was soliciting drugs outside a market near the school.

 The man had the jerseys in a plastic bag, and when he asked for money instead of drugs, Gallego said, "I handed him $20 and he just walked away."

 Gallego, 21, said he was worried he might wind up a suspect in the theft but arranged to return the jerseys to school principal Tom Scarborough over the weekend.

 "It wouldn't be right for me or anyone else to keep them," Gallego said.

 A school custodian reported the jerseys missing from a glass display case hanging inside the gymnasium which bears Elliott's name early Aug. 14. The jerseys were from Elliott's playing days at Cholla and the University of Arizona.

 "I'm half-tempted to put them right back where they were, to let people know that this is our gym," Scarborough said. "We're not going to back down."

 Elliott graduated from Arizona in 1989, the same year the high school gym was renamed in his honor.

 Elliott, 32, helped the Spurs win the NBA championship in 1999, but missed more than 60 games last season after undergoing a kidney transplant.

 He returned at the end of the season and became the first professional athlete to return after such surgery.

 Elliott, who has promised to give his former high school one of his Spurs jerseys, has not decided whether he'll return to the Spurs this season.