Boston Celtics guard Jabari Bird appeared in Brighton Municipal Court on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to new charges of witness intimidation and threatening to commit a crime. Both counts are from the same September domestic violence incident.
Bird faces charges of strangulation, assault, and kidnapping from said September incident, where he reportedly choked a woman in his Brighton residence twelve times during the assault. He was arraigned and released on $50,000 bail in September.
The 24-year-old has not been with the team since his arrest, but is still under contract while the NBA continues their league investigation.