WNBA star Dearica Hamby sues league and former team alleging discrimination and retaliation over pregnancy
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Los Angeles Sparks forward Dearica Hamby filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the WNBA and the Las Vegas Aces alleging her former team and head coach Becky Hammon withheld agreed-upon benefits and questioned her commitment to the team after learning Hamby was pregnant.
Hamby, a multiple-time all-star who won a championship with the Aces in 2022, signed a multi-year contract extension with the team that June. The lawsuit says the Aces promised Hamby "certain benefits and inducements outside of the contract," including covering private school tuition for her young daughter Amaya and providing housing accommodations for Hamby's family.
Hamby discovered she was pregnant the next month, the lawsuit continues. Hamby alleges in the suit that, when she told Hammon and Aces management and then publicly announced her pregnancy during the championship parade that September, there were changes in the way she was treated – including being ordered to vacate the team-provided housing and the team backpedaling on the tuition payments.
