{"id":36983,"date":"2025-05-16T12:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T12:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/36983\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T12:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T12:13:11","slug":"suns-sued-by-employee-over-discrimination-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/36983\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns sued by employee over discrimination, harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">A current Suns employee \u201csued the team\u201d in U.S. District Court in Arizona on Tuesday, \u201cciting allegations of discrimination, harassment and retaliation.\u201d The lawsuit is the \u201cfourth filed against the Suns by a current or former member of the organization in the past seven months.\u201d Suns\u2019 director of safety, security and risk management Gene Traylor, who joined the team in January 2023, is the plaintiff in the case. He alleges the team \u201cdiscouraged him from taking protected leave after he was diagnosed with cancer.\u201d In response, the Suns \u201cdenounced\u201d Sheree Wright, one of two attorneys representing Traylor (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45167194\/suns-being-sued-employee-fourth-seven-months\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45167194\/suns-being-sued-employee-fourth-seven-months\">ESPN, 5\/15<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A current Suns employee \u201csued the team\u201d in U.S. District Court in Arizona on Tuesday, \u201cciting allegations of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,10880,6,2065,472,4045,604],"class_list":{"0":"post-36983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-legal","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-phoenix-suns","13":"tag-phoenixsuns","14":"tag-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114517456140674967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}