Dallas Mavericks hit by shocking report

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Dark secrets have emerged from the Mavericks front office.
AN EXPLOSIVE report has exposed the Dallas Mavericks front office as being an unsafe work environment for female employees.
The bombshell news was brought to light by Sports Illustrated ’s Jon Wertheim and Jessica Luther and paints a bleak picture of the NBA organisation.
While former Mavericks team President and CEO Terdema Ussery, who resigned in 2015, is the man most associated with the complaints, he’s reportedly not alone as more than a dozen former and current employees describe a workplace as having a “culture rife with misogyny and predatory sexual behaviour”.
Ussery worked at the organisation for 18 years before leaving to join Under Armour, a company he only stayed at for less than two months.
The organisation had reportedly descended into becoming “a real life Animal House” according to one former employee.
In one crude exchange, Ussery is said to have sat down alongside a recently-hired employee in the media dining room and started a conversation based on what she had planned on the weekend.
Unaware of what he meant, the employee asked for clarity on the comment and what came next caught her completely off-guard.
“You’re going to get gangbanged, aren’t you?” Usserly reportedly said.
The Sports Illustrated report states that on multiple occasions female employees raised complaints to the then head of H.R. Buddy Pittman, but no action was taken.
“I felt trapped, frozen, scared,” an employee said.

Usserly responded to the claims made during his tenure with the organisation and not only did he slam the “false” accusations, he also pointed to other employees who engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct.
“I am deeply disappointed that anonymous sources have made such outright false and inflammatory accusations against me,” Ussery said in a statement to SI.
“On multiple occasions I and other senior executives at the organisation raised concerns about other employees who had engaged in highly inappropriate sexual conduct.”
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who prides himself on being a hands-on owner, stated he was not aware of the sexual misconduct allegations until the article surfaced.
Many have been quick to question how a man who claims to be so hands-on couldn’t have known about the atmosphere within his own offices.

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