Jon Wertheim’s feature SI story on a culture of sexual harassment in the Dallas Mavericks front office raises a number of important legal issues.
Allegations against Mavericks undermine NBA efforts to promote gender equality
Sexual harassment allegations against the Mavericks will certainly draw the attention and ire of NBA commissioner Adam Silver. The 55-year-old commissioner has made gender equality and enhancing leadership opportunities for women key priorities of his administration. This has been shown on a number of occasions since Silver became commissioner in 2014.
A few years ago, for instance, Silver moved the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte to New Orleans because of the league’s objections to North Carolina enacting a statute, HB2 (better known as “the bathroom bill”), that limited anti-discrimination protections.