Just days after posting a video of Sixers rookie Jahlil Okafor getting into a fight and punching a man outside a Boston nightclub late one night last week, TMZ has has obtained a second video which it claims shows Okafor getting into another physical altercation later that same evening.
New video allegedly shows Jahlil Okafor punching a second man in Boston
TMZ has obtained footage of another Okafor fight.
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“A witness tells us it was Okafor who ‘hit the guy with a haymaker,’” writes TMZ. “Boston PD is investigating the incident with officials telling us charges are likely to be filed.”
Boston Police are also reportedly investigating the first fight from that evening, which was seen in a video posted by TMZ last Thursday. It showed a man, who TMZ claimed was Okafor, getting into a verbal argument with several other individuals. The argument got physical and the man is seen punching someone else.
“Okafor was being heckled from the moment he left the club,” TMZ said a representative from Okafor informed them of his first fight, “and felt threatened because people swarmed him on the street.”
The representative added that Okafor was with a teammate, who a heckler had gotten physical with. However, the story told to ESPN, who along with the Philadelphia Inquirer confirmed that it was indeed Okafor in the video, differed a bit.
"Apparently, they said, 'The 76ers suck and you guys are all losers. You'll never win a game,'" a source told ESPN's Jeff Goodman. "I was around the corner when it happened. I saw him a minute after he knocked the dude out. I think the guy was just talking shit. Saying the Sixers suck."
The teammate with him was fellow rookie Christian Wood, according to the Inquirer. The two were out following a Sixers loss to the Celtics.
The Sixers and the NBA both released statements last week stating that they were aware an investigation was taking place but both declined to elaborate.
No charges have been filed, but on Friday Boston Police did acknowledge that they were “actively reviewing” the case. In its statement Boston Police added that a man had filed a police report Friday morning stating he was the victim of assault outside the Storyville nightclub the previous evening. According to that man’s version of events, Okafor and another man approached the victim’s group for the phone numbers of some of the women with them.
On Sunday, following a separate report from the Inquirer that three weeks ago Okafor had been pulled over for driving 108 miles per hour on Philadelphia’s Ben Franklin Bridge, Okafor took to Twitter to issue an apology.
“I hold myself to a higher standard than anyone else ever could and I’m not proud of some of my decisions over the last few months,” he wrote. “I own my choices both personally and now publicly. At this point I am cooperating and respecting the process I have to go through. Going forward I don’t want to be a distraction for my team and am grateful for the support and guidance those close to me are giving. I am 100% focused on my responsibility to the League, my teammates and fans.”
That same day Sixers head coach Brett Brown, who was part of the brain trust that selected Okafor third overall in this summer's draft, expressed his frustration with the situation.
“I think the repetitiveness on the announcement exacerbates the problem,” he said to the media. “It’s like any 19-year-old kid, you are trying to find ways to help him He’s knows he’s made mistakes and we know he’s made mistakes. As an organization we will deal with them as we need to and should.”
Neither Okafor nor the Sixers have commented on this second video.
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