Phoenix Suns' owner is the new public face of everything wrong with the NBA (via thereidout Blog)
touched employees inappropriately and made inappropriate comments about employees’ appearance throughout his 18 years as majority owner of the franchise. Sarver, who also owns the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, apologized in a statement and said he took “full responsibility for what I have done.”
The NBA on Tuesday announced that Sarver will serve a mere one-year suspension and pay a $10 million fine after concluding he engaged in years of workplace abuse and misconduct toward women and Black employees. Asked why Sarver skirted harsher punishment that would have been handed down to other employees, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver made clear“There are particular rights here of someone who owns an NBA team as opposed to somebody who is an employee,” Silver said.
Let’s state the obvious: It’s hard to pry a team from its owner, as the litigious expulsion of racist ex-Clippers owner Donald Sterling proved. But that difficulty would be the NBA’s problem to handle — not ours. As are the PR issues surrounding Sarver’s continued involvement with the league, which are unlikely to end anytime soon.released a statement saying he thought Sarver’s punishment was too light.
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