The New Orleans Pelicans have hired Danny Ferry as a special advisor. Ferry was last in the NBA as the General Manager for the Atlanta Hawks. In September 2014 Ferry took an indefinite leave of absence due to comments he made about free agent Luol Deng. Although he ultimately resigned his position in June 2015 Ferry was cleared of any wrongdoing after an extensive investigation.
The investigation, which included 19 witness interviews and reviewed the contents of more than 24,000 emails, made clear that the offensive language was not Ferry's and none of Ferry's remarks or behavior during the call were motivated by racial or ethnic animus, or by a person's country of origin.