The Dallas Mavericks organization is in turmoil with the release of a Sports Illustrated investigation portraying them as a “corporate culture rife with misogyny and predatory sexual behavior.” Earl K. Sneed, one of the primary subjects in the report, said during an interview with ESPN Dallas radio show on Tuesday.

As noted by Dan Devine of Yahoo! Sports, this was Sneed’s first public comments after a statement he released following his firing from the Mavs in response to the SI report from Jessica Luther and L. Jon Wertheim.

Earl K. Sneed, a Mavs.com beat writer, was arrested in 2011 and went to jail for a domestic dispute after assaulting a girlfriend.

In a revealing interview, Sneed said that after he got out of jail, he proceeded to the Dallas Mavericks facility to meet with the bosses where he was permitted to report back to work on the same day.

“Shortly after I got arrested, immediately when I got out, the team was actually flying to Salt Lake City,” Sneed told Jean-Jacques Taylor and Will Chambers. “Immediately when I got out, I went to the office and I sat in Terdema Ussery’s office, and he said, ‘Hey, after everything that’s happened today, I don’t know what you want to do. I don’t know if you need time apart, or time away, to clear your head.'”

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According to the police report, Sneed “sat on top of her and slapped her on the face and chest.” He also told his then-girlfriend, “I’m going to [bleeping] kick your ass. Today is gonna be the worst day of your life.”

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Ussery served as team president and CEO at the time but has a “reputation as a serial sexual harasser of women.”

“I said, ‘I just want to work. I just want to get back to work,'” Sneed added. “And I flew, and I met the team in Salt Lake City, and I got back to work.”

This story just adds to the huge mess that the organization has gotten itself into from the hiring of Ussery and retaining Sneed despite his deplorable behavior.

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Expect more stories to come out of the woodwork in the following weeks.