Jabari Bird arrested

[Eddie20]

Details leaking out:

Details in the Jabari Bird case: He is accused of assaulting his girlfriend for four hours in his apartment. He’s accused of strangling her multiple times, including once until she lost consciousness.

https://twitter.com/Tom_NBA/status/1040273862125072384

This is horrible if true. That's not even a Ray Rice situation, that's a sustained assault that the victim is probably fortunate to have survived. Jabari will be lucky to see the outside of a prison for the next several years, and should never set foot on an NBA court again.

Pretty much confirms what I heard thru a friend over the weekend.

I told people this was bad.  Real bad.

He tortured that woman.  She loses consciousness, wakes up, then he tortures her again. 

Absolutely disgusting.

I just read the incident report and here are some notes:

He choked her approximately a dozen times

Bird suffers from anxiety and suffered seizures during the incident. He fell asleep, which allowed her to leave.

A Boston Celtics employee (unknown who) forwarded a text from Bird in which Bird stated he would kill himself if she didn't return.

[gift]

Details leaking out:

Details in the Jabari Bird case: He is accused of assaulting his girlfriend for four hours in his apartment. He’s accused of strangling her multiple times, including once until she lost consciousness.

https://twitter.com/Tom_NBA/status/1040273862125072384

This is horrible if true. That's not even a Ray Rice situation, that's a sustained assault that the victim is probably fortunate to have survived. Jabari will be lucky to see the outside of a prison for the next several years, and should never set foot on an NBA court again.

Pretty much confirms what I heard thru a friend over the weekend.

I told people this was bad.  Real bad.

He tortured that woman.  She loses consciousness, wakes up, then he tortures her again. 

Absolutely disgusting.

I just read the incident report and here are some notes:

He choked her approximately a dozen times

Bird suffers from anxiety and suffered seizures during the incident. He fell asleep, which allowed her to leave.

A Boston Celtics employee (unknown who) forwarded a text from Bird in which Bird stated he would kill himself if she didn't return.

Hopefully the victim can recover as much as possible from the traumatic abuse.

Bird clearly needs some help too. Hope he gets it.

[Roy H.]

Bird clearly needs some help too. Hope he gets it.

... in prison.

[CelticsElite]

Bird suffering seizures sounds like something more is at work here. Could be prescription or recreational drugs. Could be a medical condition. Who knows. Seems there’s still more to the story that needs to come out

[18isGREATERthan72]

Bird suffering seizures sounds like something more is at work here. Could be prescription or recreational drugs. Could be a medical condition. Who knows. Seems there’s still more to the story that needs to come out

Sort of irrelevant information though at this point.  He might've had a bad reaction to medications, or something along those lines but that doesn't really change any end results.  Someone was tortured for an extended period of time, which he is apparently responsible for.  The Celtics are voiding his contract the first opportunity they can, and if it still counts against the cap they will be cutting him regardless.

The bad reaction to medication angle will only be a difference of if he spends 5-10 years in Prison, or in a psychiatric facility.

[nickagneta]

Bird clearly needs some help too. Hope he gets it.

... in prison.

Absolutely. Stuff being leaked is disgusting and Bird needs to be in jail, regardless of whether he might now be suicidal after the fact.

[Kuberski33]

Well you knew based on the way it was being handled, that it had to be bad. Don't think Jabari will be playing professional basketball anytime soon. I'm sure the Celtics want to distance themselves from him and this incident as quickly as possible.

[blink]

What a horrible story.  What the hell happened with Jabari?  You go from having a bright future making some money to set you up for the future, playing a game you love, to in jail after torturing your gf.  Did he have a history of mental illness?  Were a boat load of really bad drugs involved?

What a terrible thing to live through for the GF.  She is going to need a lot of help. 

So for the charges that will be brought, would this be an attempted murder?  or aggrivated assault / kidnapping?  this is so incredibly sad and terrible.

[bdm860]

Looks like he has released a statement.

https://twitter.com/MarcJSpearsESPN/status/1040324625740193792/photo/1

[PAOBoston]

So he goes bonkers, basically tortures the girl, then has a mental breakdown and a seizure? He's not going to be on the Cs any longer but there's definitely something else going on there, wether it's mental or pharmaceutical or whatever. Either this guy has seriously bad mental issues or he did some super hard stuff that did no go well. Not condoning his actions in any way. Just saying something has to go wrong for that entire episode to happen.

[fairweatherfan]

So he goes bonkers, basically tortures the girl, then has a mental breakdown and a seizure? He's not going to be on the Cs any longer but there's definitely something else going on there, wether it's mental or pharmaceutical or whatever. Either this guy has seriously bad mental issues or he did some super hard stuff that did no go well. Not condoning his actions in any way. Just saying something has to go wrong for that entire episode to happen.

This is extremely, extremely speculative and should be taken with huge amounts of salt but the kinds of reactions - the violence and suicidality but especially the powerful anxiety and frequent seizures followed by passing out - that are being described sound like some of the extreme cases of people overdosing on synthetic marijuana (spice, K2, etc). Especially if there's a pre-existing mental issue there.

Again there's zero evidence that this is the case, it just comes to mind as consistent with what's being reported.

[bellerephon]

It is also theoretically possible that Bird has suffered some sort of medical problem that could have triggered the seizure, a tumor for example. Such conditions can affect judgement and behavior. The description of the seizure rings true, people who have suffered a seizure do often fall into a deep sleep afterwards. This is just speculation, of course, but not outside the realm of possibility.

[nickagneta]

So he goes bonkers, basically tortures the girl, then has a mental breakdown and a seizure? He's not going to be on the Cs any longer but there's definitely something else going on there, wether it's mental or pharmaceutical or whatever. Either this guy has seriously bad mental issues or he did some super hard stuff that did no go well. Not condoning his actions in any way. Just saying something has to go wrong for that entire episode to happen.

This is extremely, extremely speculative and should be taken with huge amounts of salt but the kinds of reactions - the violence and suicidality but especially the powerful anxiety and frequent seizures followed by passing out - that are being described sound like some of the extreme cases of people overdosing on synthetic marijuana (spice, K2, etc). Especially if there's a pre-existing mental issue there.

Again there's zero evidence that this is the case, it just comes to mind as consistent with what's being reported.

Was going to say the same thing but did not want to drive the speculation train. Lots of pro athletes love their pot and could possibly convince themselves that they could handle synthetic marijuana. Look at Chandler Jones and what he did. Completely psychotic after smoking it.

But again, this is purely speculation, but the symptoms do sound like those caused by that drug.

[GreenWarrior]

I rushed to judgement earlier in this thread. it sounds like there's more going on here now, sure synthetic marijuana sounds like it could be in play here but if he has anxiety issues it opens the door to a whole other story.

also concerning is if he didn't pass out this girl is probably dead.

[Donoghus]

also concerning is if he didn't pass out this girl is probably dead.

That thought crossed my mind also.  Thank god for her.