Oklahoma Basketball Player Kicked Off Team After Second Arrest Since May 1st

Akolda Manyang, a 23-year old senior center for the Oklahoma Sooners, was arrested for assault and robbery Wednesday morning. Manyang and friend Tadros Deng allegedly “assaulted a cab driver while also stealing the keys to the cab driver’s personal vehicle.” The two young men were drunk and didn’t know where they wanted the cab driver to drop them off. Via the Post Bulletin:

"When the cab driver ordered them out of his vehicle, the two men smashed the driver’s clipboard on the ground, assaulted the driver and chased him around the parking lot before he fled to the safety of a hotel lobby and the two suspects fled before being arrested."

Manyang was also arrested for assault on May 1st in Norman, Oklahoma. He was suspended following that incident. He has now been kicked off the team.