Atlanta Hawks GM, Danny Ferry made a comment that put the entire Hawks organization under investigation and led to the discovery of the racial Bruce Levenson email. It all started when the Hawks convened to discuss free agency in early June. When Luol Deng was being discussed, Danny Ferry read aloud a racially offensive comment that was written in a scouting report that raised some eyebrows, according to Hawks co-owner and CEO Steve Koonin.
Via Atlanta Journal Constitution,
“Instead of editing it, he said the comment,” Koonin said. Following the meeting, Koonin said members of the Atlanta-based ownership group raised a red flag regarding the comment and said: ‘This is wrong. This should not be said. It’s not appropriate in any world but not a post-(Donald) Sterling world.”
This led to an internal investigation that ended with Levenson volunteering the racially charged email to the NBA. Ferry will face disciplinary action for his comments.