As the NBA approaches the fourth month of its investigation into the Phoenix Suns and owner Robert Sarver, the team is working to create a confidential internal hotline for employees to report complaints, sources told ESPN.
On Monday, a Suns executive explained to colleagues that the reason for creating the internal hotline is because “nobody uses the NBA hotline at all,” the sources added to ESPN. (Other NBA teams also have internal hotlines.)
The Suns did not respond to this information.
In 2018, following Sports Illustrated allegations of harassment and violence toward female employees within the Dallas Mavericks organization, the NBA created a confidential hotline for team and league employees to voice concerns about inappropriate conduct. .
In the ESPN story published in November, which outlined allegations of a sometimes toxic and hostile workplace during Sarver’s 17-year tenure in Phoenix, NBA spokesman Mike Bass said the league had not ” received a complaint of misconduct in the Suns organization through any of our processes, including our confidential workplace misconduct hotline or other correspondence.
The NBA did not want to react to this note either.
Employees learned about the NBA hotline in a February 2018 email from Suns team president and CEO Jason Rowley.
The email noted that callers have the option to remain anonymous, but included a disclaimer: “Please note that if you make an anonymous complaint, someone could still guess your identity from the circumstances or other information you provide.
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Suns would create anonymous line for complaints about Robert Sarver