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Report: Thabo Sefolosha provoked by NYPD before arrest

An SI.com source tells a conflicting story about former Oklahoma City Thunder guard Thabo Sefolosha than the one in the New York Police Department's police report from his arrest last week.


SI.com says a source close to Sefolosha is claiming the real story differs from the police account -- which says an officer "observed the defendant Thabo Sefolosha run in an aggressive manner towards the direction" of another officer. From SI.com's Greg Hanlon:

"According to the source, it was the officer who was the initial aggressor. The source said that while officers were dispersing dozens of people near the scene, one officer focused on Sefolosha, 'and then he continues to track him down the block like a D-back tracking a receiver.