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Сакраменто Кингс багийн туслах атлетик дасгалжуулагч асан Кристал Ли наймдугаар сарын 11-нд Калифорнийн Дээд шүүхэд нэхэмжлэл гаргажээ. Тэрээр 2022 онд багт нэгдсэнээсээ хойш жирэмсэн болсноо мэдээлсэн цагаас эхлэн удирдах албан тушаалтнуудын зүгээс ялгаварлан гадуурхалт, дарамт шахалттай тулгарч, үүрэг хариуцлагаа бууруулах зэрэг сөрөг хандлагатай нүүр тулсан гэв. Ли 2025 оны зургадугаар сард ажлаас халагдсан бөгөөд уг нэхэмжлэлд бэлгийн дарамт, өшөө авалт, хууль бусаар ажлаас халсан зэрэг ноцтой үндэслэлүүдийг дурджээ.
Нэхэмжлэлд дурдсанаар, багийн Тамирчдын эрүүл хариуцсан ахлах захирал Жас Рандхава түүний жирэмслэлтийг шоолж, хүүхэдтэй болсны дараа амьдрал нь сүйрнэ гэх мэт доромжилсон үг хэллэгүүдийг удаа дараа ашиглаж байжээ. Мөн Кристал Лиг амаржихаас нэг сарын өмнө багтай хамт зочлон тоглолтуудад явахыг хориглосон бөгөөд тэрээр 2023 оны долдугаар сард эргэн ирсэн ч багийн зүгээс түүний оронд өөр дасгалжуулагч томилж, албан тушаалыг нь бууруулсан байна. Түүнчлэн багийн ерөнхий менежер Скотт Перри гомдол гаргасан Лиг “гомдоллогчдыг тэвчихгүй” хэмээн анхааруулсан талаар нэхэмжлэлд тэмдэглэжээ.
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A former athletic trainer for the Sacramento Kings is suing the NBA team for allegedly firing her due to her pregnancy.
In her lawsuit, filed Aug. 11 in California Superior Court, Crystal Lee contends that from the moment she informed higher-ups she was pregnant, she faced discrimination for becoming a mother. The suit outlines several instances where team officials dismissed her concerns and reduced her responsibilities before ultimately firing her in June 2025. In addition to pregnancy discrimination, the suit also includes allegations of sexual harassment, retaliation and wrongful termination.
Lee joined the Kings in 2022 as an assistant athletic trainer, a role she says required her to be on-call at all times. Despite her popularity with the players, the lawsuit said, news of her pregnancy prompted Jas Randhawa, her boss and the team’s Senior Director of Athlete Health, to mock her.
“When she told him she was pregnant, he laughed and told her, ‘You’re f—ed,’ an opinion he reiterated when he later opined, ‘Your life is ruined after you have kids,’” the lawsuit said. “He also made comments disparaging caretaking obligations more generally and the inconvenience Randhawa believed they posed.”
In a statement Thursday, an attorney representing the Kings denied any wrongdoing and pushed back on Lee’s criticism of the team’s culture.
“The Sacramento Kings categorically deny these allegations and reject the characterization of the organization and its workplace reflected in these claims made by a disgruntled former employee,” Alexis Gabrielson said in the statement. “The Kings take allegations of discrimination and harassment seriously and are committed to maintaining a workplace where all employees are treated with dignity and respect.”
Randhawa is named as a defendant in the suit, which accuses him of repeated demeaning behavior and of demotions that minimized Lee’s role. The Kings said they will not comment further as the case proceeds.
A month before she began maternity leave, Lee said she was told she would not be traveling with the Kings for road games, despite her doctor saying she was fit to do so. She returned from leave in July 2023 — three months before the team’s Oct. 25 opener — but in September, the Kings hired a new assistant athletic trainer to replace her at away games.
Those decisions came in conjunction with Lee’s demotion “to a position that, according to its job description, left travel to the discretion of the Kings’ staff,” she alleges.
Lee said she asked Randhawa and Joel Noland, the team’s head athletic trainer, to let her go back to traveling with the team once she returned, but was told she was not needed. She further accuses them in the lawsuit of preventing her from professional development opportunities and refusing to let her attend the NBA combine. Later, she was again demoted to a role that mainly consisted of clerical work, according to Lee.
When she complained about the situation to Kings general manager Scott Perry, he “merely told her that ‘complainers will not be tolerated’ the lawsuit said. Lee said she then took her complaints to human resources. Two months later, in June 2025, she was fired.
The lawsuit also claims the Kings did not provide lactation accommodations. It goes on to accuse Doug Christie, a former Kings assistant coach who took over as interim head coach in December 2024, of sexual harassment. The suit also alleges a son of former Kings head coach Mike Brown repeatedly harassed Lee while he was working as an intern for the team.
Lee is seeking a jury trial and monetary damages. Court records show the case is set for an “initial case management conference” on June 8, 2027.
