Brooklyn Nets Sued For Discrimination By Two Fired Team Attendants Who Say They Lost Their Jobs For Being Vocal About BLM Movement
Nov. 16 2021, Published 4:12 p.m. ET
The Brooklyn Nets are being sued for discrimination by two former team attendants who claim they were fired because of their continued support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
According to court documents obtained by Breaking Celebrity News, Edward Bolden, Jr. and Juwan Williams, who are Black, have filed a lawsuit against the NBA team alleging they lost their jobs after their white supervisor Joe Cuomo warned them to quit discussing "police brutality" and other "social justice conversations" with the Nets players.
"The players’ voices on these issues were tolerated because of the power they held on the Nets, but Plaintiffs’ voices were not," the lawsuit states. Bolden and Williams claim Cuomo "did not agree with the protests proffered by athletes, and he made his view known, privately and more publicly."
Bolden and Williams, who both worked several years with the Nets, allege Cuomo instructed them that "they were not to engage in any communications regarding discrimination and social injustices against Blacks in America while at work."
As part of their argument, the former employees say they watched as Cuomo "mentored and helped non-Black Team Attendants secure other positions within the Nets’ organization or with other NBA teams." When Bolden and Williams expressed interest in moving up the ranks, they were allegedly shot down every time.
When the pandemic hit, their lives changed. "March 8, 2020, and that was the last day that Bolden and Williams would ever work at the Barclay Center," the documents say.
They point out they were not asked to be a part of the Net's "bubble" when the season resumed in July 2020 d