Police open investigation into Primo; Pop speaks

SAN ANTONIO -- Police person begun investigating allegations that erstwhile San Antonio Spurs defender Joshua Primo exposed himself connected aggregate occasions to a erstwhile squad therapist during counseling sessions.

Dr. Hillary Cauthen filed a suit against the Spurs and Primo, claiming the 19-year-old exposed his genitals to her 9 times during aggregate sessions.

In summation to the civilian ailment that was filed Thursday successful Bexar County, which includes San Antonio, Cauthen filed a transgression ailment against Primo.

The Bexar County Sheriff's Office told The Associated Press it "has made interaction with the unfortunate progressive successful the Joshua Primo incident." The sheriff's bureau called it a "preliminary probe into the allegations" against Primo.

In her lawsuit, the team's erstwhile show scientist said the Spurs did thing to subject Primo oregon code her concerns "despite her galore complaints astir Primo's improper intersexual conduct."

Cauthen said she had informed and requested a gathering with Spurs wide manager Brian Wright aft what she described arsenic Primo's archetypal incidental of indecent vulnerability successful December 2021. She said her petition for a gathering successful January was postponed by Wright until March, during which clip Cauthen continued to counsel Primo contempt her concerns.

Cauthen said her relation with the squad was marginalized successful the months that followed, culminating successful her declaration not being renewed successful August.

Cauthen said she was angry, confused and bittersweet that Primo had not faced immoderate subject for his actions until the Spurs released him an hour earlier their Oct. 28 location crippled against Chicago. Primo cleared waivers connected Monday but has not signed with different team.

In a connection released soon aft Cauthen's quality conference, Spurs CEO R.C. Buford said the franchise disagrees "with the accuracy of facts, details and timeline presented today."

San Antonio manager Gregg Popovich, speaking earlier Friday night's crippled against the Clippers, said helium could not remark connected erstwhile helium was archetypal informed astir Primo's alleged behaviour and what actions the Spurs did oregon did not instrumentality due to the fact that it is present a ineligible matter. Popovich did accidental the Spurs person agelong worked to support a steadfast enactment environment.

"I would lone adhd that anybody that has observed the Spurs implicit a precise agelong play of clip knows that an accusation similar this would beryllium taken precise seriously, without immoderate uncertainty whatsoever," Popovich said. "No equivocation, the Spurs enactment would beryllium connected apical of it. I americium perfectly assured that the men and women connected the managerial unit that dealt with and are dealing with this did truthful purposefully, efficiently, promptly and did it with the utmost attraction for everybody concerned, the accuser, the accused, the radical successful the organization, to marque definite that everybody inactive felt comfy and safe. I'll conscionable permission my comments astatine that."

Popovich has been an outspoken advocator for civilian rights and for assorted societal causes. The assertion that the Spurs turned a unsighted oculus to Cauthen's accusations has troubled the team's fans.

"The lone happening I would accidental to the fans is to see the connection I conscionable made astir however we've handled things implicit galore years," Popovich said. "As acold arsenic the details, I deliberation they cognize intellectually, similar we each do, that it's successful the hands of the lawyers. We can't accidental anything. That beauteous overmuch cuts everything off. I would ideate that implicit clip details are going to travel out, they ever do. Everybody has to conscionable hold for that."