The NBA's New Policy On Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, And Child Abuse Is Here. The NBA’s new policy on accusations of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse—negotiated last year as the league came to an agreement with the players’ union, and formally approved in December—will come into force on July 1. But according to a report from ESPN’s Zach Lowe published last Friday, the league saw no need to stay within the four corners of a policy that isn’t yet in place, and already has tried to either strongly discourage teams from signing or effectively ban two players who have been accused of sexual- assault or domestic- violence accusations. This—and the fact that per Lowe’s reporting, the union has pushed back and won part of an arbitration hearing related to all of this—is the background to and context for the Philadelphia 7.

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Brandon Austin, the former Providence, Oregon, and Northwest Florida player. Austin’s travels aren’t a coincidence. Both of his transfers followed investigations of possible sexual assault involving him. Austin has never been criminally charged. In one case—at Providence—a university disciplinary board voted to bar him from campus, according to a local newspaper report, but the decision was overturned by a university vice- president. That vice- president still wanted to place him on disciplinary probation, which would have stopped him from playing basketball for a time, and at that point he transferred to Oregon.

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In the second case, he was found responsible for sexual misconduct, according to an attorney, suspended, and later transferred to Northwest Florida. He helped Northwest Florida win a JUCO championship and since then appears to be trying to break into the NBA. The NBA’s new policy has a lot to recommend it, and incorporates a lot of what critics of sports leagues, including me, have been asking for.

There’s counseling, a panel that includes independent experts, and a hotline for families. But whether or not the policy will make a big difference is hard to tell. Untangling Austin’s playing career—and the NBA’s apparent attempts to make sure that it didn’t extend to the highest level—is as good as any illustration as to why. Providence Friars. Austin started out at Providence in 2. Philadelphia area. Before playing a game for the Friars, though, the team announced in November that Austin and fellow freshman Rodney Bullock were suspended indefinitely, then later for the whole season for “not upholding their responsibilities as student- athletes.” No other details about what they did were released.

It would later come out, via documents provided to the Providence Journal, that a disciplinary board had voted on Nov. Austin from campus until the spring of 2. During that time, he couldn’t have played basketball. Nobody outside of the university administration, though, knew any of this. The PJ article was published more than a year later. So in January, 2. Austin left the team, and coach Ed Cooley put out a statement: “We wish Brandon success with his basketball career and with his academic future.” Austin transferred to Oregon, and Ducks coach Dana Altman was quoted in a press release about his talk with Providence before making the decision.

Altman said he consulted with Providence coaches before accepting Austin as a transfer, and they alleviated any character concerns.“That’s always something that we consider very strongly,” Altman said. The first details of what had been alleged came out on March 1. Wall Street Journal reported that Providence police were investigating a report that a female student said she had been raped by two basketball players: Austin and Bullock. Go North Movie Watch Online. The university investigation had started in November; the police report was filed a few weeks before the WSJ report came out.

Bullock’s lawyer, Bill Lynch, talked to the WSJ. He said the Providence College investigation of the complaint was carried out by a former member of the Rhode Island State Police who leads such inquiries for the school. I’m getting too old to believe in coincidences,” he said. As universities do, Providence didn’t say much and insisted the reason why was student privacy. Providence spokesman Steven Maurano later put out a statement saying he would “recommend against drawing any conclusions that our (on- campus) process ended with a finding that our student- athlete was found responsible for sexual assault.” None of the articles in the WSJ, PJ, or AP at the time news about the police report quote Austin. By that point, though, he had transferred away. A grand jury eventually declined to charge Bullock and prosecutors said since there was no charge for Bullock they decided to not charge Austin either.

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Ducks announced that point guard Dominic Artis was transferring and Austin and junior guard Damyean Dotson were no longer participating in team activities. Later that day, Eugene, Ore., police released a police report showing that the three were part of an investigation of possible forcible rape. According to the police reports, the student told police that they were at a party at an apartment and she had some peach- flavored alcohol. One of the basketball players lead her into a bathroom where, first, they asked her to shake her butt. Then Austin grabbed her phone, and Dotson forced her to bend over, she told police. She said that Austin then pulled down her shorts and put his penis in her vagina while Dotson put his penis inside her mouth. This lasted a few minutes because then someone walked into the bathroom, she said.

They all left the bathroom, per the police report, and at one point Artis got her a glass of water. Then she got pulled back into the bathroom where all three “had me suck their dicks.” Then it stopped, she didn’t know why, but she later was pulled into a cab with the men and taken back to an apartment. Artis went out into the living room to play a video game. She sat on the couch next to him and started to cry, which made everyone except Austin leave. Artis asked her if she wanted to go to sleep; she said yes, so she went to his room with him and curled up on his bed.

In the morning, Artis gave her some clothes and called her a cab to take her home. When police talked to Artis and Dotson, they told officers that the sex was consensual. They added that they’d had oral and vaginal sex with the student that morning as well before she left to go home. Police interviewed the student again and she said that she did remember oral sex with Artis and “fooling around a little.” In another interview, she added that the day afterward had gone over to Joseph Young’s apartment. She had consensual sex with Young later on that day, she told police.

Police talked to her roommate, who said the student hadn’t seemed intoxicated to her at the party. Another person told police that she had tried to stop the student from getting in the taxi with the basketball players, telling her “all the guys wanted from her was sex,” but the student still went with them. That person wasn’t certain if the student was drunk or not. Police kept investigating and had the student record her phone conversations with two of the basketball players. First, she recorded a phone call with Artis, in which he said from his perspective she had been a willing participant and they stopped when to him it was clear she wanted it to stop. Dotson said something similar during his call—by his recollection, they stopped when she wanted them to stop. He also, twice, mentioned his mother and sister.

Austin was represented by lawyer Laura Fine Moro. He didn’t speak to them directly, but Moro gave investigators a statement on his behalf. The police reports describe it as similar to what Dotson and Artis said. The same day that police released their report, the local district attorney’s office told the Oregonian that it would not bring charges. The district attorney’s office listed only Dotson as a suspect when it wrote April 1.