76ers rookie Jahlil Okafor involved in fight outside Boston club
“Saying the Sixers suck”. The report also indicated that police and K-9 units “swept the parking garage and first floor of the hotel with negative results”.
Philadelphia 76ers rookie Jahlil Okafor was caught on video punching a man outside of a Boston nightclub on Wednesday, but it appears as though he’ll come away from the incident relatively unscathed.
The victim told police two black men approached him and his friends and began talking to several female friends and tried to get their phone numbers. When the women declined, a verbal altercation ensued, followed by a physical scuffle.
After a Jahlil Okafor fight made national headlines, the Philadelphia 76ers are concerned about their rookie center, according to ESPN.
No charges have been filed, but police say they reviewing the case.
“I’m not allowed to talk about that incident”, Okafor said after Friday night after the Sixers’ loss to the Rockets.
Okafor addressed the incident with the media on Friday.
In any case, Okafor was definitely in debt and the argument was about money. “Something I’m embarrassed about”. Sixers fans can only hope this is a one-time deal and is officially past them, and that it doesn’t affect the team on the floor tonight, or any other night. But I’m not happy about it at all. Okafor was seen shouting at some individuals and thereafter shoving a man to the ground.
“It doesn’t happen often”, Okafor said of being heckled, according to the Inquirer. It’s something that I have known I’m in the spotlight.
“I’m ashamed with what I did and that’s not who I am”, he said.
The Sixers don’t have a curfew but the team asks players to make responsible decisions, Brown said.
“You guys know how much of a disappointment it would have been”, Jae Crowder said after his second three-pointer of the comeback gave the Celtics the lead with 38.5 seconds left.
According to theguardian.com, even head coach Brett Brown has become immune to the losing. “But we are still going to through the process of what we are going to do”. In fact, they now own the record for National Basketball Association futility, having lost their last 26 consecutive games.
The 76ers has released a statement following the incident.
Phil Pressey, who missed a late scoring chance for the 76ers, said: “This one hurts because we’ve been doing it over and over again”.