Atlanta Hawks' shooting guard Thabo Sefolosha is an indispensible part of his team's NBA championship run, so the season-ending injury that prevented him from the playoffs was a massive hit to Atlanta. In an interview with GQ, he revealed what really happened in April.

It was a harmless night out with Sefolosha and teammate Pero Antic dropping by a club in New York. When fellow NBA player Chris Copeland got stabbed outside the same nightclub, the police shut down the place and directed all the people outside. Cops claimed Sefolosha was uncooperative and aggressive, and proceeded to force him onto the ground violently.

In the interview with GQ, Sefolosha elaborated on the incident saying an officer was being hostile towards him as they were guided out of the club.

"I told him we were listening to him: 'You are the police, but you don't have to act like you're the toughest guy on earth,'" Sefolosha continued. "He said, 'With or without a badge, I can fuck you up.' ... I'm the last guy who gets physical with anybody, especially the police. At the same time, I felt singled out for no reason. He was much shorter than me. I said, 'You're a midget, and you're mad.' I voiced my opinion, but I kept moving."

The NBA guard went on to say five to seven officers continued "provoking" him. When Sefolosha took out cash for a homeless man, one officer told him he's going to go to jail and pushed Antic to the ground when he tried intervening. Then the group began grabbing at Sefolosha.

"Somebody kicked my leg, more than once, from the back to force me to the ground," he revealed. "I knew something had happened as soon as they did it; I'm an athlete, so I know how my body should feel. They were stepping on my foot, too, I guess to try to keep me there. I didn't feel like there was anything I could do to calm it down. I tried to show them I was cooperating. I tried."

By the time he and Antic were put in a cell at the precinct, his leg had gotten worse. The injury ended up derailing his season and he said, "I like to think that maybe with me, we would have had a chance to win a title. I think I would have done a great job on LeBron."

After being exonerated of his charges, Sefolosha decided to file a civil lawsuit against New York City, NYPD and the officers, a previous interview with ESPN revealed.

"If there's six people jumping me outside of the club, I scream, 'Police, police!'" he told GQ. "If the police are doing this to me, who you want me to turn to?"