Dallas Mavericks Hit By Scandal, Sports Illustrated Reports

The Dallas Mavericks were hit with a scandal on Tuesday evening involving sexual harassment and domestic violence allegation to former Mavs employees. The official story was reported by Sports Illustrated late Tuesday evening.

Scandal erupted in the NBA on Tuesday night when the Dallas Mavericks were found to be employing alleged sexual harassers, domestic abusers, and others who kept the information under the rug or away from the public eye. All of these allegations were detailed in a piece by Jon Wertheim and Jessica Luther in an investigative piece from Sports Illustrated.

You can read the original report here.

This report was a shocking revelation and hit during the All-Star weekend when many were anxious to get the NBA season back underway. The Dallas Mavericks tweeted out hours before the Sports Illustrated report was published. Here is what it said:

Both the report from Sports Illustrated and the Dallas Mavericks outline a number of employees who were involved in some way over the past 20 years. According to the report, all of these employees have either left or been fired/suspended at this point.

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Mark Cuban decided to get out in front of this process by hiring investigators to look into everything that has been alleged within the Mavs organization. The NBA will be monitoring the situation closely, according to a report released after the allegations hit.

Cuban was also interviewed by Tim McMahon of ESPN in wake of the allegations. The Mavericks owner took full responsibility for the continued employment of a Mavs beat writer, Earl K. Sneed,  with a reported history of domestic violence. You can read Cuban’s comments with McMahon here.

It is unclear if the NBA will take any action yet, but will likely wait until the investigation has concluded. The players for the Dallas Mavericks have been openly praised from all those who have reported the scandal so far, saying that the Mavs locker room acted as a ‘safe haven’ for many of the women who were being harassed in other areas of the work place.

Mark Cuban was also fined $600,000 yesterday for comments unrelated to this report.

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The Dallas Mavericks will attempt to continue on with the season throughout the investigation, starting tomorrow, February 23rd, against the Los Angeles Lakers.