Jahlil Okafor Reportedly Suspended For Two Games

Now, as for their best player and star rookie Jahlil Okafor, he can’t come remotely close to keeping his cool as TMZ have now released footage showing his involvement in a second street fight in Boston.

The years-long guessing game over Kobe Bryant’s future drew to an abrupt end over the weekend when the Los Angeles Lakers icon finally called time on his career, announcing he would not play on after this season. Police reportedly stopped the third pick in NBA’s 2015 draft for driving 108 miles per hour across a bridge spanning the Delaware River between Philly and Camden, New Jersey. While we are disappointed with his recent actions, e have faith in him as a valued member of the Sixers.

“I’m not allowed to talk about that incident”, Okafor said Friday night after the Sixers’ loss to the Rockets. He will be eligible to return for Monday’s game against the Spurs.

The 6-foot-11, 275-pound Okafor was shown in a video tumbling to the ground as a man tried to punch him in the back of the head.

For the most part, Okafor has had a decently successful season on the floor, but his issues away from the team is a problem the Sixers were not expecting to have to deal with.

Now a Boston man has come forward and stated that Jahlil Okafor assaulted him during an altercation outside of a Boston night club.

“I own my choices both personally and now publicly”, he said in four entries.

Hopefully, all the public attention and work the Sixers are doing behind the scenes get Okafor on the right path. Otherwise, the situation will become just another headache in an increasingly tumultuous rebuilding effort in Philadelphia. “At this point I am cooperating and respecting the process I have to go through”, continued Okafor.

“We have made the determination to suspend Jahlil Okafor for two games, effective immediately”, the 76ers said in a statement. “We’re still dealing with the league and with the team, but I’m not happy about it at all”. The rookie is only 19 years old (soon to be 20 on December 15th) and has raised the question for many National Basketball Association teams, that if drafting a player after only playing a year in college is too risky.