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Police now investigating incident involving Okafor

Boston police are now investigating a street fight involving Philadelphia 76ers rookie Jahlil Okafor early Thursday, according to a statement issued Friday evening.

According to the statement, a man filed a police report Friday morning stating he was the victim of assault and battery outside the Storyville Nightclub on Exeter Street in Boston at around 2 a.m. on Thursday morning. The man said that Okafor and another man approached his group and asked some of the women for their phone numbers. When the women declined, a verbal altercation ensued, following by a physical scuffle.