The NBA on Tuesday suspended Robert Sarver, the owner of the Phoenix Suns and Mercury, for one year and hit him with a record $10 million fine after an investigation uncovered racist and sexist workplace conduct, officials said.
, for one year and hit him with a record $10 million fine after an investigation uncovered racist and sexist workplace conduct, officials said.
The $10 million fine is the maximum allowed under league rules, the NBA said, and it is the biggest financial penalty ever handed down to one person in pro basketball history.hronicling long-standing allegations of racism and misogyny within the Phoenix basketball operation. He was also found to have “engaged in instances of inequitable conduct toward female employees, made many sex-related comments in the workplace, made inappropriate comments about the physical appearance of female employees and other women,” the NBA found.He also “engaged in demeaning and harsh treatment of employees” that “constituted bullying,” the league found.
At a team-building function in 2012-13, a Black player used the word and Sarver repeated it, prompting a team representative to tell him"that he could not use this word," the NBA findings said.106-100 win over the Suns on Oct. 30, 2016 The NBA probe couldn't confirm a detail of the ESPN report, when Sarver is alleged to have said in 2013 that he preferred hiring Black coaches because"these [N-words] need a [N-word].”Sarver has a long history of making sexually inappropriate comments and engaging in conduct that offended women who work for the team, according to the report.
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