It seemed like no good news had been surrounding Jahlil Okafor recently, but the rookie's lawyer spoke to WIP this morning and told them that Okafor was not the person who delivered the punch knocking someone out in the second altercation outside a Boston nightclub. Thanks to some technology that was able to slow down the footage, evidence showed that it wasn't the Sixers center that landed that blow.
“Fortunately for us, and obviously Jahlil and the story that he told me came true, which was it wasn’t him that hit that man,” Smith said. “We were able to slow down the video to a 75-percent rate and when you do that, you clearly see there’s another individual assailant who struck that person and knocked him out before Jahlil is even involved in the scene.” [Philly.com Sports]
Earlier this week, the unnamed victim who was knocked out told his attorney that he was positive that Okafor was indeed the one that knocked him out to the ground and is threatening a lawsuit.
Okafor will serve the second game of his brief suspension on Saturday when the Sixers play the Nuggets at 1pm. The Sixers center has to forfeit over $82,000 of his $4.6 million salary for his suspension.
