Former Timberwolves guard Bryn Forbes was arrested early on Wednesday morning in San Antonio, Texas on a misdemeanor family violence charge, according to Dillon Collier and Ben Spicer of KSAT.com.
As Collier and Spicer outline, a preliminary police report stated that Forbes and a woman he’s dating were out together when he became upset. They drove home and got into an altercation that became physical, according to police. The woman was struck several times by Forbes, police say — she required medical attention and he was taken into custody.
The case remains under investigation, per KSAT’s report. According to Taylor Pettaway of the San Antonio Express-News, Forbes was arrested on suspicion of assault with bodily injury but hasn’t been booked into the Bexar County Jail.
Forbes, who spent the first four seasons of his professional career with the Spurs, has bounced around the NBA in recent years, playing for the Bucks, Spurs (again), Nuggets and Timberwolves. He signed with Minnesota last summer and appeared in 25 games this season for the club, averaging 3.6 PPG on .361/.304/1.000 shooting.
The 29-year-old’s minimum-salary contract and his dip in three-point shooting (he’d made 41.3% of his career attempts entering this season) made him the logical odd man out when the Timberwolves acquired two players in exchange for D’Angelo Russell at last week’s trade deadline and needed to open up a roster spot. Forbes was waived on Thursday and is now a free agent.
Given his ability to knock down outside shots, Forbes was a candidate to get a look from playoff contenders this season, but that seems unlikely to happen now. Any team with interest in Forbes will certainly hold off until there’s more clarity – or a resolution – on his legal situation.
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