Tamika Tremaglio, the National Basketball Players Association executive director, shared that Suns and Mercury owner Robert Sarver should not be allowed to be in any “managerial” role following the NBA’s investigation into the workplace misconduct.
On Tuesday, the NBA announced that Sarver would serve a one-year suspension and a fine of $10 million as punishment to the investigation’s findings. However, as company sponsors, players—LeBron James and Chris Paul—and Suns minority owner Jahm Najafi have weighed in on the NBA’s discipline of the investigation, Tremaglio is calling for Sarver to be banned from the NBA.
“We are absolutely calling for that,” Tremaglio told ESPN’s Malika Andrews on NBA Today. “We do not want him to be in a position where he is managing and engaging with individuals ... or our players. We are absolutely clear from our findings in the report that we do not want him to be in that position.”
