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Former Texas basketball star C Jaxson Hayes arrested and hospitalized

Jaxson Hayes Mandatory Credit: Chuck Cook-USA TODAY Sports

According to a report from TMZ Sports on the afternoon of July 28, former Texas basketball star center and current New Orleans Pelicans big man Jaxson Hayes was arrested after “an alleged violent altercation” with the police this week. Hayes was reportedly taken to the hospital after the altercation with the cops in what is still a developing story.

TMZ Sports noted that both “Hayes and a cop were taken to the hospital” following this altercation on July 29. Here’s more on what this TMZ Sports report had to say on the matter of the arrest and subsequent hospitalization of Hayes this week.