The Atlanta Hawks officially parted ways with general manager Danny Ferry on Monday via a team press release. The release absolved Ferry of any wrong doing for his role in the controversy that engulfed the franchise prior to the season.
Here is the team's release in its entirety:
Atlanta, GA - The Atlanta Hawks announced today that Danny Ferry has stepped down as General Manager of the team. The move follows an indefinite leave of absence Ferry began in August, at the request of the team. The leave was triggered by the unauthorized release of an audio recording containing a brief portion of a lengthy conference call with team ownership and others during which Ferry repeated and paraphrased language from a third-party scouting report that contained a culturally insensitive characterization of a player.