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In December of last year, Kendall Ware filed a lawsuit against the University of Vermont that said Anthony Lamb raped her while both were students there in 2019. But well before the lawsuit, allegations that Lamb had committed sexual assault while he was a student at UVM had been swirling on social media. That’s what Bob Myers was asked about in October. In response, Myers said that he checked about the sexual assault case with the NBA league office and the other teams, the Houston Rockets and the San Antonio Spurs, which had previously signed Lamb. The Warriors never reached out to Ware or her lawyers, before or after the lawsuit was filed, the San Francisco Examiner reported Friday.
Neither the Rockets nor Spurs — nor the NBA league office — have reached out to Ware or her representatives, a lawyer for Ware told SFGATE. In an interview, Karen Truszkowski, one of Ware’s lawyers in the lawsuit against the University of Vermont, emphasized that Ware’s lawsuit was about the university’s serial mishandling of sexual assault cases, not Lamb’s NBA career.
Golden State Warriors forward Anthony Lamb sexually assaulted a fellow student when he was at the University of Vermont, according to allegations in a lawsuit filed by three women against the school. The plaintiffs, in the suit, stated they were suing the university because “deliberate indifference to student-on-student harassment, sexual assault, and drugging created a discriminatory and sexually hostile environment in which female students faced a heightened risk of sexual assault and, once assaulted, lacked any meaningful avenue of redress.” Lamb was not named as a defendant in the suit. “The allegations made against me in 2019 that have recently resurfaced are patently false,” he said in a statement. “I have always been fully cooperative regarding the alleged incident, and have welcomed any investigation into the matter. Simply put, I have never committed sexual assault.”
A former University of Vermont athlete is suing the college for allegedly mishandling a rape allegation against a now-NBA player while they were both students at UVM. The federal lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Burlington Wednesday accuses professional basketball player Anthony Lamb of raping a then-UVM swimmer in 2019. Lamb, 24, is now a forward for the Golden State Warriors.
The Milwaukee Bucks have added a two-time America East player of the year to their herd for the summer. Former University of Vermont star Trae Bell-Haynes received an invite from the franchise to join its NBA Summer League squad in Las Vegas next month. Bell-Haynes, who led the Catamounts to a 27-8 record and NIT appearance in his final season, was one of 40 players invited to the NBA Global Camp, a pre-draft showcase, in Italy earlier this month.
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“I didn’t say anything, because when that stuff happens, I kind of just, I go and bottle up — where I go into turtle mode and don’t say anything and just internalize everything,” Lin added. A Southern California native and son of Taiwanese immigrants, he went on to cite other incidents of racist treatment, such as at a game at the University of Vermont. “I remember, because I had my hands up while the Vermont player was shooting free throws — their coach was like, ‘Hey ref! You can’t let that Oriental do that!’ I was like, what is going on here?” Lin said. “I have been called a c—k by players in front of the refs; the refs heard it, because they were yelling it [like,] ‘Yeah, get that out, c—k!’ And the ref heard it, looked at both of us and didn’t do anything.”
Marqus Blakely’s agent, Sam Porter, confirmed in a phone interview this afternoon that Blakely has signed a two-year contract to play for the Los Angeles Clippers and elaborated on the deal. With only a portion of the former University of Vermont standout’s contract guaranteed, Porter said Blakely will only get the full amount if he makes the team after the Clippers hold preseason camp this fall. Porter declined to specify how much guaranteed money Blakely will receive. “It was enough that it was worth us passing up six-figure offers from teams in Europe,” Porter said.
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