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Dilapidated Utah Jazz forward Elijah Millsap instructed Tim Reynolds of the Connected Press he is skeptical the franchise will habits a glorious investigation into his allegations group executive Dennis Lindsey mentioned bigoted remarks in the center of an exit interview in 2015.
The Jazz retained outside counsel to habits an investigation this week after Millsap tweeted that Lindsey threatened he would “chop your Sunless ass.” Lindsey stays a member of the group as executive vice president of basketball operations and denied making this form of comment.
“Clearly, I do know my truth,” Millsap instructed Reynolds. “Some outside counsel or somebody, all they’ll attain is factual are trying to hump it up and construct it me look as if I’m lying. I did it most steadily to free myself from the torture of maintaining things in, to free myself, now not to construct Dennis Lindsey feel inferior and never to construct him look admire a racist. I don’t feel he is a racist, however I attain know what he mentioned to me.”
The younger brother of feeble Jazz forward Paul Millsap, Elijah performed 67 video games over points of two seasons in Utah from 2014-16 whereas averaging 4.2 points and a pair of.8 rebounds in 16.2 minutes per game. He performed two video games with the Phoenix Suns in 2016-17 however hasn’t made it encourage to the NBA since.
Millsap believes negative feedback coming from Utah will personal impacted his NBA alternatives since his time with the group.
“These guys, they’d the choice to portray of us the truth about who I was,” Millsap instructed Reynolds. “And to boot they didn’t attain that. That’s disgusting to me.”
The 33-year-broken-down would per chance well well now not reach up with an that would satisfy him now that the NBA has joined the investigation.
“We take allegations of discrimination seriously, so attain we also take the due course of rights of those which will likely be being accused, which is why we attain chunky investigations,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver mentioned. “And on this case, the investigation is being conducted in partnership and in coordination with the Utah Jazz.”
