BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors say Boston Celtics guard Jabari Bird choked his girlfriend multiple times, kicked her and prevented her from leaving his apartment for hours last week before he collapsed in distress.
Bird was held on $50,000 bail at his arraignment Thursday on domestic violence-related charges. Not guilty pleas were entered on his behalf.
Prosecutors say Bird choked the woman unconscious, threw her against the wall and dragged her by the ankles when she tried to leave his apartment in the city's Brighton neighborhood last Friday.
Bird spent several days in a hospital after his arrest.