TMZ posted surveillance video of the 2021 domestic violence incident, prompting the NBA to reopen its investigation.
The NBA has reopened an investigation into a 2021 domestic incident involving Lakers center Jaxson Hayes after TMZ on Saturday posted a video of the altercation between Hayes and his then-girlfriend Sofia Jamora.
“As a result of the media report and video posted on Saturday, we are reopening our investigation,” a league spokesperson said in a statement to the Southern California News Group on Sunday morning.
The 5½-minute security camera footage that TMZ obtained and posted, which came from a Ring camera, is timestamped July 28, 2021, starting at 1:35 a.m.
The footage showed Hayes, who was playing for the New Orleans Pelicans at the time, arguing with his ex-girlfriend and appearing to pull Jamora out of a doorway while she was saying, “Stop. Let go of me.”
Hayes replied, “[Expletive] wrong with you?”
Around 1:57 a.m., after Jamora and Hayes appeared to go upstairs in the Woodland Hills residence where the incident took place, Jamora could be heard repeatedly saying “Stop touching me.
