He had two other circumstances using the N word while quoting someone else or not directing it at someone else which I think were also both deniedĪ woman says he uses language like "I own you" but does not make direct quotes or stories about it Watson said he used the N word when quoting someone else using the N word, which Sarver denies and Watson says there were no other witnesses Watson and other basketball people said he was explosive and yelled at them Just trying to get this in terms of context of the accusations:
I would have thought for something that had pre-denials and lots of discussion that there would have been something much more evidence based and much more explosive. There didn't seem to be any smoking gun here for anything other than Sarver being a huge a-hole. My initial impression was this was not nearly as big a deal as I expected it to be. I started getting some fatigue, but will finish it later. I only have read about 2/3rds of the article in depth. How exactly is this an unreasonable opinion? All I'm saying is that ESPN went too far with the hype in advance instead of letting their reporting speak for itself. I'm not defending Sarver, who is clearly a scumbag and should have sold the team years ago. After that era, it takes a lot for a sports owner's behavior to shock me. I'm a Clippers fan who remembers the Sterling years vividly. I'm not sure if this is going to be enough to get him to sell the team, but hopefully he does for the good of the Suns and the league, because he's a bad owner with or without this article. Don't get me wrong, it's still not a good look for him or the organization, but ESPN still hyped it up a little too much. Instead we get a profile of a socially-awkward boomer who's casually racist, not as funny as he thinks he is, and has creepy sexual habits. MartinToVaught wrote:With all the hype about this article, I was expecting the type of **** insane antics that Sterling used to do. "You can't f-ing say that," Watson said again. "You can't say that," Watson, who is Black and Hispanic, told Sarver. "You know, why does Draymond Green get to run up the court and say ," Sarver, who is white, allegedly said, repeating the N-word several times in a row. "It's embarrassing as an owner."Įarl Watson spoke of an incident in October of 2016 in which Sarver used racist language. "The level of misogyny and racism is beyond the pale," one Suns co-owner said about Sarver. Employees recounted conduct they felt was inappropriate and misogynistic, including Sarver once passing around a picture of his wife in a bikini to employees and speaking about times his wife performed oral sex on him.
Some told ESPN that he has used racially insensitive language repeatedly in the office. Interviews with more than 70 former and current Suns employees throughout Sarver's 17-year tenure describe a toxic and sometimes hostile workplace under Sarver. ESPN's Baxter Holmes published a report on Thursday detailing a culture of racism and misogyny within the Phoenix Suns.