Former Mavericks general manager Donnie Nelson reportedly filed a lawsuit against the team on Thursday. In it, he alleges that owner Mark Cuban fired him last summer as retaliation after Nelson reported that Cuban’s chief of staff sexually harassed and sexually assaulted his nephew during a 2020 job interview, according to ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr.
Nelson also alleges that Cuban offered him $52 million to sign a confidentiality statement and withdraw a wrongful termination claim.
The lawsuit alleges that Cuban’s “right-hand man,” Jason Lutin, assaulted Nelson’s nephew—a man who is in his 20s—during All-Star Weekend in Chicago in 2020.