And now the Loeb House.

Welcome to the Loeb House Podcast where the biggest story in the NBA is not about anything

happening on the court.

It is of course the story of the Phoenix Sons and Robert Sarver who ten months after our

Baxter Holmes wrote an extensive story outlining a climate of alleged sexual harassment, sexual

innuendo, use of the N word, and all sorts of other things.

After a ten month investigation the NBA initiated via a law firm after that story, the investigation

has concluded the league as a result of the investigation or an under the recommendations

of the investigation has suspended Robert Sarver from the governorship of the Phoenix Sons

for one year.

And from my understanding and Baxter Holmes' understanding, the suspension is a real thing.

He's not allowed to be involved in any way in basketball or business decisions.

This is not the kind of thing where he can create a burner email account and talk to James

Jones if James Jones would even take the emails or the calls about Cam Johnson's extension.

He's just out for a year period and find the maximum ten million dollars.

I think from the moment Baxter's story came out there was a sense that this was not going

to be Donald Sterling 2.0 that this might go away quietly, that Robert Sarver after taking

kind of a hiatus from being a real public figure with the Sons, he wasn't sitting court

side for a while, that it might very well just be something that blows over, so to speak.

And certainly the Sons themselves, I think, internally made a decision, hey, we're trying

to win the championship.

We're just coming off an NBA finals appearance.

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