Backlash to the #MeToo movement is a new twist to the backdrop as the NBA and Sacramento Kings investigate a sports reporter’s sexual assault allegations against Luke Walton
The NBA and the Sacramento Kings have launched a joint investigation of newly hired head coach Luke Walton after a former sports reporter filed a civil suit accusing Walton of sexual assault, dating back to a 2014 incident when Walton was an assistant coach for the Golden State Warriors. As we await more facts to be known in what’s looking like a classic “he said, she said” case, both sides have come out firing, with Walton’s defense team employing familiar tactics of publicly discrediting the accuser while simultaneously imploring the media not to try this case in public.
In a statement Tuesday morning, Mark Baute, Walton’s attorney, called the accuser “an opportunist, not a victim” and vowed to “prove this in a courtroom”. After the woman held a press conference to detail the accusations, Baute doubled down on this strategy. “Yesterday’s press conference was a poorly staged attempt to portray the accuser as a viable spokesperson for an important movement,” Baute said in a statement on Wednesday. “Her lawyers want to create a public circus to distract from their complete lack of evidence to support their outrageous claims.”
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