NBA: Dallas' Hostile Workplace

According to ESPN, an eye witness said that Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner, looked intoxicated and was groping women while taking pictures. The incident was said to have occurred in 2011 and Cuban has denied these claims. The woman did not press chargers and prosecutors didn’t think there was enough evidence to support the claims. CBS News explained that the NBA league office is reviewing the allegations. There have also been reports that there has been a hostile work environment within the Mavericks' work place. In the initial Sports Illustrated report, former Mavericks CEO Terdema Ussery was accused of making sexually suggestive remarks to several women.
Ussery was investigated by the team over similar claims in 1998, two years before Cuban bought the team. He worked for Cuban for 15 years. There was a long investigation on sexual misconduct in the Dallas organization. Ussery talked about gang-banging women and put his hands on women who didn’t want to be touched. He was investigated in the summer of 1998 based on women complaints on his conduct, but he has since denied these claims. In the article it says, during his time with the Mavericks, Ussery allegedly told a woman that she would be gang-banged and put his hands on a woman's thigh without her consent. He also suggestively said to a woman: "Seriously ... Just one time."
One former Mavericks employee says that when she told her friends she had taken a job with the team, she was told to watch out for the president: "Whatever you do, don't get trapped in an elevator with him." According to USA Today, the Mavericks organization is investigating the situation and Cuban told Sports Illustrated: "It's not a situation we condone." The Dallas News said that a PBS poll explained that one-third of American women say they've been sexually harassed in the workplace and it's now spread to the Mavericks organization. Right now it's unclear where this specific situation will go in the future, but unfortunately sexual harassment has infested our society as a whole.
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