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來源: The Athletic
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另外名記者Sam Amick自己也有寫一篇 措辭更加強烈 但我只有手機懶得翻了XD
 
內容:
The NBA punished Robert Sarver Tuesday after the conclusion of a 10-month-long i
nvestigation of the Phoenix Suns and Mercury owner. Sarver has been suspended fo
r one year from having any role with the two organizations, and has been fined $
10 million.
 
NBA在長達10個月的調查之後星期二懲罰了太陽與水星隊老闆Robert Sarver。他被從兩隊的
管理層停權一年並罰金10M。
 
The suspension came after the NBA hired a law firm to look into allegations of r
acism and misogyny by Sarver in an ESPN article published last November. The inv
estigation, performed by white-shoe law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katzn N
ew York, looked into his 18-year tenure at the helm of both franchises. The leag
ue published a 36-page report of its findings, documenting a long list of transg
ressions by Sarver.
 

 
Sarver, the report found, used the N-word “at least five times in repeating or
purporting to repeat what a Black person said — four of those after being told
by both Black and white subordinates that he should not use the word.” He dispa
raged women in the workplace, including telling a pregnant woman she would not b
e able to do her job after she became a mother, and engaged in “unequal treatme
nt of female employees.”
 

 
The investigation painted a picture of a hostile workplace, headed by Sarver, wh
o would embarrass employees and make them feel uncomfortable with behavior that
ranged from what the investigation called “sophomoric” to discriminatory. But
fault did not lie with Sarver alone; the investigation found that the Suns organ
ization was a “difficult place for women to work, particularly if they have you
ng children” and that executives occasionally treated women differently there t
han men.
“Sarver believed workplace norms did not apply to him and viewed common convent
ions as to what language he should use and what conduct he should avoid as a for
m of challenge,” the report found. Additionally, the report notes that “witnes
ses said that Sarver’s workplace actions often seemed intended solely to provok
e a reaction from employees — to embarrass them or assert dominance over them.?
 
 

 
Here is an FAQ as to what we know so far about Sarver and the Suns, as a result
of the NBA’s investigation.
 
這裡是關於NBA調查結果的FAQ
 
What did the NBA find in its investigation?
 
NBA在調查中發現了什麼?
 
The report, commissioned by the league, outlined a troubling pattern of behavior
 by Sarver that included his use of racial epithets; that he “used language and
 engaged in conduct demeaning of female employees;” that he made crude jokes ab
out the physical appearance of women — including female employees of the Suns;
that he twice made male employees uncomfortable by getting naked or showing his
genitals; and that more than 50 “current and former employees reported that Sar
ver frequently engaged in demeaning and harsh treatment of employees… that on o
ccasion constituted bullying under workplace standards.”
 

 
The report did not deduce a definitive reason for his actions, but its authors w
rote that “Sarver often acted aggressively in an apparent effort to provoke a r
eaction from his targets; Sarver’s sense of humor was sophomoric and inappropri
ate for the workplace; and Sarver behaved as though workplace norms and policies
 did not apply to him. Witnesses observed that Sarver “lacked a filter” and“
thrive(d) off” saying and doing things to make others uncomfortable.”
 

 
How did the law firm obtain this information?
 
法律事務所如何取得這些資訊的?
 
Investigators at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz began work in Nov. 2021 and reac
hed out to every employee currently employed by the Suns, to more than 150 forme
r employees, and had 20 former employees reach out on their own. The investigato
rs ended up speaking with 320 people — including Sarver and 12 Suns minority ow
ners. The Suns waived any nondisclosure agreements in effect after being asked b
y the investigators. They reviewed more than 80,000 texts, emails, and documents
 from Suns employees. They also watched 51 archived Suns employee meetings. The
Suns cooperated in full, the report said. “Early in the investigation, the inve
stigators learned that the Suns’ HR department had historically maintained poor
 records, and, accordingly, the HR files received by the investigators were limi
ted in number, incomplete, and disorganized,” the report said.
 

 
Sarver was interviewed and his work and personal emails were reviewed. As was hi
s phone, which was “forensically imaged and reviewed for materials responsive t
o the investigators’ requests.”
 
Sarver有被訪問且他的工作與個人ema都有被檢視過。也如同他的手機,”法醫式的投射並負
責任的依照調查者的要求檢視這些證物。
 
Why does the NBA have the authority to punish Sarver?
 
為什麼NBA有這個權威可以處罰Sarver
 
The investigation found that Sarver’s actions were in violation of the Suns wor
kplace policy and the NBA Constitution. The latter gives commissioner Adam Silve
r the power to investigate issues that could impact the NBA in a negative way to
 impose punishment in the best interest of the league.
 
調查發現Sarver的行為違反太陽與NBA機構的職場政策。後者給主席Adam Silver以他造成NB
A負面影響為由處罰他的權力以獲取聯盟的最大利益。
 
What exactly did Sarver do?
 
Sarver實際上做了什麼?
 
Sarver used the N-word at least five times, including in a 2004 recruiting meeti
ng with a free agent, during a team-building exercise, and at least twice retell
ing an incident with a player’s family member. “As early as 2004, Sarver was m
ade aware that he should not use the N-word even when repeating another perso’
s use of it,” the report said. After Sarver used the N-word during the 2012-13
team-building exercise in front of players and some coaches and front office sta
ff, summarizing what a player had said, a team representative told him he could
not say the word.
 

 
In October 2016, after a game against the Warriors, Sarver complained to a Black
 Suns coach that a Black Warriors player was allowed to say the N-word without p
unishment. The report recounted the interaction: “Why does (the Warriors player
) get to say (N-word, N-word, N-word, N-word, N-word)?!” After the coach said,
“You can’t f—ing say that,” Sarver replied, “I can’t say (N-word, N-word,
N-word)?” Sarver then sent an email to the NBA league office complaining about
the officiating during game, mentioning several other instances, but also “he p
urported to quote the Warriors player as saying the N-word spelled out with an ?
a” at the end,” according to the report.
 

 
The investigation found that Sarver “engaged in inequitable and demeaning condu
ct toward female employees, including bullying.” He told one pregnant female em
ployee in 2008 that she could not continue in her role coordinating an event bec
ause when the event was to occur she would have already given birth. “Witnesses
 recalled Sarver saying, in substance, that the employee could not perform the a
ssignment because she would be “breastfeeding” and her “baby needs their mom,
 not their father,” the report said. The woman became upset and cried. Another
employee who had witnessed the event later told Sarver that he had not handled t
hat situation properly; Sarver and a lawyer later called that witness and the la
wyer told her Sarver didn’t do anything wrong and “Sarver then criticized the
witness for questioning Sarver’s judgment.” The pregnant woman kept her job.
 

 
In 2011, a week after he screamed at a female employee because he was unhappy wi
th a video she had produced, causing her to cry, Sarver entered her office and c
losed the door and “said in substance, ‘Why can’t we get along? What’s wrong
 with you?’ When the female employee began to cry, Sarver then said in a raised
 voice, ‘Why do all the women around here cry so much?'” Soon after, Sarver he
ld a lunch for Suns and Western Alliance Bank employees (he is its CEO) and all
employees were women. “Two Suns attendees perceived Sarver’s arrangement of th
e lunch to be a response to the video incident described above, to reflect Sarve
r’s opinion that female Suns employees were insufficiently tough and/or “cry s
o much,'” the report said. “And was intended to enable the female bank employe
es to explain to the female Suns employees how to handle Sarver’s demands. The
same attendees perceived the lunch as uncomfortable and demeaning.” Sarver admi
tted the lunch was arranged but said it was to “facilitate networking between t
he entities,” according to the report. Investigators wrote that they believed t
he lunch was for the purposes stated by witnesses, not Sarver.
 

 
The report outlines six times when Sarver made vulgar or sexual jokes to employe
es. It found he sent around pornographic material to male Suns executives, inclu
ding a video and photos of a naked woman.
 
報告指出Sarver至少6次對員工開了低級或是色情的玩笑。他被發現會給太陽男性管理層傳?
情物品,其中包含一支與多張裸露女性的影片與照片。
 
He made male employees uncomfortable, as well. While a male employee was on his
knees giving Sarver a fitness check, Sarver dropped his underwear and exposed hi
s genitals. In 2016, the report said, Sarver stood naked in front of an employee
 after taking a shower in the coaches shower.
 

 
On several instances, the report found that Sarver made demeaning or inappropria
te comments about women in the Suns organization, including about the bodies and
 attractiveness of Suns dancers.
 
在多個狀況下,報告發現Sarver對太陽女性員工開羞辱性與不恰當的評論,其中包含了太陽女
舞者的身體與吸引度。
 
Sarver commented about the “sex lives, bodies, and sexual orientation” of play
ers, including at least once about a player’s partner. “In another instance, w
hen the Suns were recruiting a free agent in 2015, Sarver made a joke that the t
eam should have players impregnate local Phoenix strippers so they would feel co
nnected to the area, giving the Suns a potential edge in free agency recruitment
.”
 

 
More than 50 employees said Sarver yelled or cursed at employees as a way to man
age them, including in a way that would be considered bullying under the Suns wo
rkplace policy, according to the report. Sarver denied yelling at employees to i
nvestigators but admitted he may have “raised his voice” after they gave him s
pecific examples.
 

 
The report states several times that there was “no finding that Sarver’s condu
ct was motivated by racial or gender-based animus.”
 
報告多次坦言Sarver的行為是被種族與性別敵意所驅動
 
Employees expressed concerns and issues with the Suns organization as a whole, t
ying some of them to Sarver’s leadership, but to which the report said it could
 not directly find a connection. The Suns’ human resources department had poor
record keeping and the report said that investigators had trouble corroborating
allegations of racial and gender discrimination in the organization’s hiring be
cause of this.
 

 
“The investigation finds that the Suns organization has been a difficult place
for women to work, particularly if they have young children, and that Suns execu
tives have on occasion treated female employees differently because of their gen
der and/or pregnancy. The investigation also identified a few reports of unwante
d touching and sexual harassment by or of Suns employees, some of which were mis
handled by the team.”
 

 
The investigation also found instances of executives engaging in “anti-gay sent
iment.”
 
調查也發現太陽高層數次涉入”反同言論”
 
The report outlines the ways in which the Suns’ HR department has been overhaul
ed since 2021 after it undermined the trust of Suns employees and broke their co
nfidence in previous years.
 
報告細數了太陽人資部門自2021年起因太陽員工過去幾年來對其信任的崩壞的重建方式。
 
What do the Suns say?
太陽隊的聲明
 
大意就是太陽與水星全力配合並有在改善工作環境
 
Phoenix Suns
 
 https://i.imgur.com/YBcPBsW.jpg
 
What does Sarver say?
 
Sarver的聲明
 
大意就是我尊重聯盟判決 我道歉 但這些我都沒有做錯且否認部分報告。
 
 https://i.imgur.com/HTCc3oF.jpg
 
Why didn’t Sarver get fined more?
 
為什麼Sarver只被罰這樣的錢
 
The $10 million is the most that the NBA could fine him under its rules.
 
1000萬美金是nba可以對他裁罰的法定上限
 
What happens next?
 
接下來還會發生什麼
 
Sarver can’t have anything to do with the NBA or WNBA, the Suns or Mercury, or
his duties as a team governor for the next year. He can’t even attend games. He
 has to undergo a training program for respect and appropriate workplace conduct
.
 
Sarver下一年不能與NBA或WNBA以及他球隊擁有者的身分有任何關係。他不能出席比賽。他?
要接受職場尊重與恰當行為的訓練。
 
What does Adam Silver say?
 
Adam Silver說了什麼?
 
He released a statement with the NBA’s ruling.
 
他釋出了NBA判決的聲明
 
“The statements and conduct described in the findings of the independent invest
igation are troubling and disappointing,” Silver said.
 
Silver說“獨立調查中發現的言論與行為是有問題且令人失望的…
 
“We believe the outcome is the right one, taking into account all the facts, ci
rcumstances and context brought to light by the comprehensive investigation of t
his 18-year period and our commitment to upholding proper standards in NBA workp
laces. I am hopeful that the NBA community will use this opportunity to reflect
on what this great game means to people everywhere and the values of equality, r
espect and inclusion that it strives to represent. Regardless of position, power
 or intent, we all need to recognize the corrosive and hurtful impact of raciall
y insensitive and demeaning language and behavior. On behalf of the entire NBA,
I apologize to all of those impacted by the misconduct outlined in the investiga
tors’ report. We must do better.”
 

 
Why didn’t the NBA strip the Suns away from Sarver like they did with Donald St
erling?
 
為什麼NBA沒有對Sterling一般把太陽從Sarver手中拿走呢?
 
That’s a good question. It seems now that the Sterling incident might have been
 a one-time case, impacted by the large amount of attention paid to the very pub
lic nature of what Sterling said and all the attention it brought down on the le
ague, especially during the playoffs. It was clear in the aftermath that Silver?
s decision was not universally supported by other NBA owners. This time, the NBA
 handed down a penalty in line with what the NFL gave Daniel Snyder last summer
— $10 million and taking away day-to-day control — after the Washington Comman
ders faced allegations of sexual harassment and workplace misconduct.
 

 
註:華盛頓司令老闆2009年時問女員工是否能性交並企圖脫掉女員工衣服。對,就這麼一件。
 
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