Sources: Pistons exec on leave amid investigation

Detroit Pistons adjunct wide manager Rob Murphy is connected permission aft the enactment commenced an probe into an allegation of workplace misconduct involving a erstwhile pistillate employee, sources told ESPN connected Thursday night.

Murphy, 50, has been retired of the Pistons' offices for astir a week connected permission aft absorption was made alert of the allegation and started a probe, sources told ESPN.

Murphy, who is from Detroit, was promoted to adjunct GM successful June aft starting arsenic the franchise's G League president and wide manager successful March 2021. He had spent the erstwhile 2 decades arsenic a assemblage coach, including 10 years astatine Eastern Michigan arsenic caput manager until 2021.

Murphy was a precocious schoolhouse manager successful Detroit too, including 4 years astatine Crockett Tech earlier moving connected to adjunct assemblage jobs astatine Kent State successful 2002 and Syracuse successful 2004.

The Pistons' probe into the allegation involving Murphy and a erstwhile pistillate worker comes successful the aftermath of the Boston Celtics suspending manager Ime Udoka for the 2022-2023 play pursuing an probe into an improper workplace narration with a pistillate subordinate.