{"id":523650,"date":"2026-03-07T01:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523650\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T01:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:22:08","slug":"arike-ogunbowale-arrested-on-battery-charge-after-unrivaled-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523650\/","title":{"rendered":"Arike Ogunbowale arrested on battery charge after Unrivaled win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"34946ff8-281e-c57d-bb76-37fb1ebe3ec6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-wings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Wings<\/a> guard <a data-player-guid=\"a35875ce-3ef4-61d5-9a20-483b82d82ed9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/3904577\/arike-ogunbowale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arike Ogunbowale<\/a> was arrested in Miami early Thursday morning following the Unrivaled championship after she allegedly punched a man in the face at a nightclub, according to police records in Miami-Dade County. Ogunbowale was charged with misdemeanor battery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The league is aware of an incident involving Arike Ogunbowale and we are in the process of gathering additional information,&#8221; an Unrivaled spokesperson said in a statement to ESPN. &#8220;We&#8217;re in contact with Arike and her representatives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The arrest happened at 4:20 a.m. outside of the E11EVEN nightclub in Miami. According to the police report, Ogunbowale punched a man with a closed fist, causing him to fall to the ground. Footage from the nightclub captured the incident, the report said, and confirmed the man&#8217;s account.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/48107025\/stewart-drops-32-mist-overcome-plum-40-win-unrivaled-title\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r1623476_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ogunbowale was out celebrating winning the Unrivaled championship with the Mist. Ogunbowale had 19 points in the final. She is a four-time WNBA All-Star and a two-time WNBA All-Star Game MVP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Wings are aware of an incident involving Arike Ogunbowale and are in the process of gathering more information,&#8221; the team said in a statement to ESPN. &#8220;Further comments will be provided once we have more details.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings guard Arike Ogunbowale was arrested in Miami early Thursday morning following the Unrivaled championship after she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-523650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}