Philadelphia NBA center Joel Embiid got into an altercation with a reporter and pushed him in the locker room after the regular season game against Memphis, the Associated Press reports.
The meeting took place on Saturday in Philadelphia and ended with a score of 124:107 in favor of the guests. Embiid did not participate in the game.
After the game, Embiid got into a dispute with Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Marcus Hayes, who mentioned the basketball player’s late brother and son in his columns.
“The next time you talk about my deceased brother and my son, you will see what I will do to you,” the player allegedly told the journalist.
He continued to argue with Hayes, using profanity on several occasions. The reporter apologized, but Embiid responded that it was “not the first time” this had happened.
A team security official asked the media not to report what happened, Embiid said “they can do whatever they want.”
“We are aware of reports of an incident in the Philadelphia locker room and are opening an investigation,” an NBA representative told ESPN.
Embiid’s younger brother, Arthur, died in a traffic accident in 2014 at the age of 13.
Associated Press
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