Ogunbowale was arrested and charged with misdemeanor battery on Thursday, according to Miami-Dade County records.
Wings guard Arike Ogunbowale was arrested and charged with misdemeanor battery following the Unrivaled championship game in Miami on Thursday,. Ogunbowale was being escorted out of the club by the staffer due to an unrelated altercation around 4:20 a.
m. when she punched the staffer in the face with a closed fist. The incident took place hours after Ogunbowale helped lead the Mist to a championship in Unrivaled’s second season.“The league is aware of an incident involving Arike Ogunbowale and we are in the process of gathering additional information,”“The Wings are aware of an incident involving Arike Ogunbowale and are in the process of gathering more information. Further comments will be provided once we have more details,” Ogunbowale, 29, is a four-time WNBA All-Star with the Wings. She scored 19 points in the Mist’s 80-74 win over the Phanton in the Unrivaled title game on Wednesday night. A WNBA scoring champ in 2020, Ogunbowale is entering her eighth career season and is currently an unrestricted free agent as CBA negotiations between the players’ union and WNBA continue to drag on this spring.Kristen Wong is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. She has been a sports journalist since 2020. Before joining SI in November 2023, Wong covered four NFL teams as an associate editor with the FanSided NFL Network and worked as a staff writer for the brand’s flagship site. Outside of work, she has dreams of running her own sporty dive bar.
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