Former WNBA GM sues team, claims firing was ‘retaliation’

Former Los Angeles Sparks general manager Penny Toler is suing the WNBA team, saying she was fired for complaining about inappropriate sexual relationships involving the team president and a managing partner, not for using a racial slur in a postgame tirade.

Toler, 53, said her Oct. 4 termination had to do with “retaliation after raising complaints about the workplace conduct” of former president Christine Simmons and managing partner Eric Holoman, “who were engaged in an extra-marital affair” — a relationship Toler said made doing her job difficult.

Toler had been with the franchise as a player or GM since it was founded in 1997.

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