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Report: Eric Bledsoe arrested for domestic violence after allegedly striking woman

Danby: Daniel Hager06/19/25DanielHagerOn3
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12-year NBA veteran Eric Bledsoe was arrested on Wednesday after he allegedly struck a woman in the face, TMZ Sports reported.

Jail records show the 35-year-old was booked on a felony domestic violence charge and is being held on $50,000 bail.

“The California Highway Patrol tells us officers placed Bledsoe into custody at around 2:30 AM following an investigation into a report of a domestic violence incident that occurred on a Los Angeles-area freeway,” TMZ said. “According to the CHP, officers’ probe into the matter led them to a gas station near US-101 … where they found Bledsoe and a woman who was suffering from “bruising and swelling to her face. Cops say the woman told them Bledsoe hit her … and after they say Bledsoe “refused to provide a statement,” they put him in handcuffs and threw him behind bars.”

Bledsoe was previously arrested on a similar charge back in 2022, when a woman claimed that he had slapped her after she had knocked his phone out of his hand following a dispute. The victim however gave “inconsistent statements about whether there was a physical altercation,” leading to the case being dropped.

The Birmingham, AL native most recently played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association and La Familia (Kentucky’s alumni team) in the 2024 “The Basketball Tournament”. Prior to that, Bledsoe spent 12 years in the NBA with the Los Angeles Clippers, Phoenix Suns, Milwaukee Bucks, New Orleans Pelicans. He was selected with the No. 18 pick in the 2010 NBA Draft by the Oklahoma City Thunder, but was immediately traded to the Clippers.

Fans of La Familia’s team in “The Basketball Tournament” had pondered Bledsoe’s exclusion from this year’s team, but it appears as if the group behind the team has dodged a bullet. In the event last season, Bledsoe averaged 14.6 points, 4.8 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game. He was one of the driving forces behind the teams first ever run to the TBT Semifinals, aided by former ‘Cats Nate Sestina, Aaron Harrison, Andrew Harrison, Willie Cauley-Stein, James Young, Kellan Grady and Xavier alum Kerem Kanter.

For now, it seems as if the two-time NBA All-Defensive team selections’ basketball career will be put on pause. Following his run in 2024’s “The Basketball Tournament”, he averaged 13.6 points, 9.3 assists and 4.9 rebounds in 31 games for the Shanghai Sharks of the CBA this past season.