The Lakers superstar detailed his disappointment with the NBA’s punishment of Sarver (one-year ban, $10 million fine), writing “our league definitely got this wrong” in a series of social media pos…
On the same day NBA commissioner Adam Silver defended his decision to suspend Phoenix Suns’ owner Robert Sarver for one year, others strengthened calls for harsher penalties.The Lakers’ star tweeted his disapproval of Sarver’s suspension and $10 million fine on Wednesday afternoon, saying, “Our league definitely got this wrong,” and, “There is no place in this league for that kind of … behavior.
After a November 2021 ESPN report highlighted instances of racist and sexist comments by Sarver last year, the NBA conducted a formal investigation which found that the 60-year-old had mistreated employees, used racial epithets and made sexually inappropriate jokes and comments in the workplace. Sarver, who also owns the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, will not participate in any league business or enter any league facility in the next year.
“Ultimately we made a judgment – I made a judgment – that in the circumstances in which he had used that language and that behavior, that while, as I said, it was indefensible is not strong enough,” Silver said. “It’s beyond the pale in every possible way to use language and behave that way, but that it was wholly of a different kind than what we saw in that earlier case.”
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