More than 70 former and current Suns employees described a toxic and sometimes hostile workplace created by Robert Sarver, the owner of Phoenix's NBA team and the WNBA's Mercury, in an exhaustive report published Thursday by ESPN's Baxter Holmes.
Among the allegations reported, are instances of Sarver using racially insensitive language, making lewd and misogynistic comments and fostering an environment in which "employees felt they were his property," writes Holmes.
"The level of misogyny and racism is beyond the pale," one Suns co-owner told ESPN about Sarver. "It's embarrassing as an owner."
"There's literally nothing you could tell me about him from a misogynistic or race standpoint that would surprise me," another former Suns basketball executive told ESPN.