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The NBA Isn’t Nearly as Progressive as It Thinks It Is

A new ESPN investigation into the Phoenix Suns’ toxic racist, sexist culture under owner Robert Sarver exposes the NBA’s racist rot.

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Things got dicey for Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver real quick. In a recent investigation by ESPN’s Baxter Holmes, the longtime reporter interviewed over seventy Suns employees past and present, the vast majority of whom described Sarver as “brutal to work for.”

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