Shelburne and Bontemps
The Lowe Post
ESPN
4.7 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 94 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And now the low post. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome to the low post podcast at the end of a truly shocking and dramatic week in |
| 0:08.9 | the NBA that began two days ago really when Robert Sarver announced in a very Robert |
| 0:13.5 | Sarvery way that he is going to sell the Phoenix sons and the Phoenix Mercury after the |
| 0:18.1 | NBA initially banned them for a year and find them 10 million bucks because an investigative |
| 0:22.8 | report by an outside law firm that found what we'll call now for now broad workplace |
| 0:29.4 | misconduct. |
| 0:30.8 | That report as you surely know corroborated much of if not all of Baxter home story for |
| 0:37.0 | ESPN in November 2021. |
| 0:38.9 | Baxter interviewed dozens and dozens and dozens of current and former son staff members who |
| 0:43.8 | revealed to him just how toxic the sons and Mercury internal culture had become under |
| 0:49.1 | Sarver and things that Sarver himself as the boss and the tone center of that culture |
| 0:54.6 | said and did. |
| 0:57.6 | Some of which included but certainly not inclusive of using racial slurs commenting on the |
| 1:03.8 | bodies of female staffers and all sorts of potential incidents of gender discrimination |
| 1:10.3 | that when Baxter and I ran them by several high powered attorneys almost a half dozen |
| 1:17.4 | of them. |
| 1:18.4 | They all agreed that if not for statute of limitation issues which apply in maybe not all the cases |
| 1:23.8 | that's unclear but certainly a lot of them a good plaintiffs attorney boy boy could they |
| 1:28.8 | put together a nice lawsuit against Robert Sarver for hostile work environment gender discrimination |
| 1:35.3 | on and on and on in that realm for some of the things that he has said about and to female |
| 1:41.4 | employees and again the statute of limitations thing is real and probably have limited those |
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