The National Basketball Players Association is looking into the circumstances that led to Thabo Sefolosha's arrest for interfering with a crime scene and to a subsequent season-ending broken fibula.
NBPA investigating Thabo Sefolosha’s arrest, broken leg during nightclub incident
The National Basketball Player’s Association is looking into the night that Sefolosha and Hawks teammate Pero Antic were arrested by the NYPD.
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Sefolosha and Hawks teammate Pero Antic were both arrested early Wednesday at a New York night club at the stabbing scene of another NBA player, the Pacers' Chris Copeland. Video has surfaced via TMZ of four NYPD officers tackling Sefolosha to the ground, but is it not clear what started the incident. Sefolosha was also charged with resisting arrest.
"The players' union is concerned about the circumstances of Thabo Sefolosha and Pero Antic's arrest and is doing its own investigation of the situation," NBPA spokeswoman Tara Greco told ESPN. "The union was fully engaged in supporting all three players in court and in the precinct this week, and will continue to stay engaged as each situation evolves."
Police held Sefolosha and Antic overnight -- reportedly without providing treatment for Sefolosha’s injured leg -- and perp-walked them in the morning.
“We feel bad for the bad publicity that we brought to the Hawks organization, the Hawks family, not by our fault,” Antic said on Friday, per the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
He added: “For now, it’s a legal matter. I will say it’s a pure example of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Sefolosha has hired known criminal defense attorney Alex Spiro to represent him.
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