On Friday, the executive director of the NBPA called for a lifetime ban from the NBA for the owner of the Phoenix Suns, who was suspended for a year for making racist and misogynist comments.
In an interview with NBA Today, Tremaglio said that they were calling for alifetime ban. We don't want him to be in a position where he is managing or engaging with people who are interacting with our players. The findings in the report show that we don't want him to be in that situation.
Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James and Phoenix Suns point guard Chris Paul had expressed their disappointment with the NBA's punishment of Sarver on social media.
While we understand that there has been a thorough investigation and that the NBA was able to follow through on that, we want to make it very clear that we don't want to see that happen.
In addition to the one-year ban, Sarver was fined $10 million after the NBA released its findings from a 10-month independent investigation into allegations of workplace abuse during his tenure as managing partner of the Suns.
An investigation was commissioned by the NBA in the wake of allegations of racism and misogynistic behavior by the owner of the team.
It's not clear if the NBA's punishment toward Sarver will change after she spoke to Adam Silver.
"I'm not sure how open Silver is in wanting to make the change." It is our hope that it will be clear that Mr. Sarver shouldn't be in a position to be a manager. We've heard from others. I think there's no expectation from him to come back.
The player was asked if there had been any discussions about boycotting games.
We haven't had those discussions yet. All of us are ready for a season. Our players are upset about what has happened. Their hearts go out to the families and people who have had to endure this for a long time. They know they have a job to do and they are excited about moving forward with the season.
"We don't want our players to be in a position where they are unsafe or individuals that they are around are unsafe, that's for sure," said Tremaglio. The tone at the top was set by Mr.Sarver. It is detrimental to the success of our players and the safety of our players if we have individuals impacting the game in that way.
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