In an interview with Shams Charania of The Athletic, Jahlil Okafor admits that after his trade to Brooklyn last December, a Nets staffer (who neither identify) suggested that he had been dealing with depression and anxiety. The 22-year-old admitted that he didn’t deal with the diagnosis until after the season.
Now with New Orleans, Okafor described how the staffer surprised him with the description of his mental state.
“I didn’t know I was dealing with depression and anxiety myself,” Okafor told The Athletic. “When I was in Brooklyn after the Philly trade, I started to talk to somebody there.