Examining the NBA’s Investigation Into Robert Sarver

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🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Rob Mahoney and Seerat Sohi react to the NBA’s investigation and punishment on Suns and Mercury governor Robert Sarver. They discuss how the investigation was framed, compare Sarver’s situation to Donald Sterling’s, consider what kind of implications the punishment sets for the future, and much more. Hosts: Rob Mahoney and Seerat Sohi Producers: Jessie Lopez and Jonathan Kermah Researcher: Kellen Becoats Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. This is Chris Ryan from The Ringer. As many of you have heard right now,
0:03.7	we lost a treasured colleague and friend over the weekend. Jonathan Charks passed away on Saturday.
0:09.7	John was 34. He leaves behind a wife and a son, and we are obviously mourning his loss and
0:14.9	sending all of our love to his family right now. If you go to TheRinger.com,
0:18.6	slash Jonathan Charks, that's J-O-N-A-T-H-A-N-T-J-A-R-K-S. You will find a memorial page for John,
0:26.8	which has links to his GoFundMe that benefits his family. The amazing writing he did throughout
0:32.3	his experience. I encourage you to go there and if you can, please support The Charks Family.
0:37.0	Briefly, I will just say that John was among the first people that we hired to work for TheRinger,
0:41.2	so he was instrumental in defining the voice and perspective of the site. He has as much to do with
0:46.4	what this place is as anyone else. Throughout his experience with Cancer John,
0:51.2	communicated eloquently about the challenges he was facing both through his writing and his podcasting.
0:56.3	You could never stop John from talking about his passions. It's one of the things I loved about him.
1:00.5	Over the last few months, whenever we would talk, whenever I reached out to see how he was doing,
1:06.0	I would try to keep it very John-focused, and the next thing I knew we would be talking about James
1:10.4	Harden or Better Call Saul. He really loved this stuff. He loved talking about it, celebrating it,
1:16.7	debating it, illuminating it. We're going to keep putting out our pods and writing while we grieve,
1:22.4	but we wanted to let folks know that John was in our hearts and that his family was in our thoughts.
1:26.6	Thanks for listening.
1:56.6	Hello and welcome to TheRinger NBA Show. I'm Rob Mahoney. I'm here with Seer at Soki,
2:18.4	and we're here to talk about a landmark day in the NBA, and I say that at a frustration of what
2:23.3	the NBA chose to do with that landmark. Seer at the NBA's investigation into Robert Sarver and
2:28.6	the workplace misconduct in the Sun's organization is over. We're done. The findings were pretty robust,
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