As the NBA nears the fourth month of its investigation into the Phoenix Suns and majority owner Robert Sarver, the team is working toward creating a confidential internal hotline in the coming weeks for employees to report complaints, team sources told ESPN.
On Monday, a Suns executive explained to colleagues that the reason for creating the internal hotline is because "no one actually uses the NBA hotline at all," the sources told ESPN. (Other NBA teams also have internal hotlines.)
The Suns did not respond to a request for comment.
In 2018, in the wake of Sports Illustrated's reported allegations of harassment and violence toward female employees inside the Dallas Mavericks organization, the NBA created a confidential hotline for team and league employees to voice concerns of improper conduct.