{"id":349404,"date":"2025-12-16T18:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349404\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:03:10","slug":"dearica-hamby-aces-agree-to-dismiss-pregnancy-discrimination-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349404\/","title":{"rendered":"Dearica Hamby, Aces agree to dismiss pregnancy discrimination lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Las Vegas Aces and WNBA forward Dearica Hamby mutually agreed to dismiss her lawsuit against the team, according to a filing with the U.S. District Court in Nevada on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Hamby, who currently plays for the Los Angeles Sparks, filed the suit against the Aces and the WNBA<\/a> in August 2024, alleging unlawful workplace discrimination and retaliation regarding her pregnancy with her second child. In the lawsuit, she alleged \u201cnotable\u201d changes in how the Aces treated her after publicly announcing her second pregnancy in the fall of 2022, and said that the team subsequently traded her in January 2023 as a result of her pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Hamby, 32, also claimed in the lawsuit that the WNBA did not sufficiently investigate the Las Vegas franchise after she first came forward with allegations of discrimination following her trade.<\/p>\n

In May, a federal judge dismissed Hamby\u2019s lawsuit against the WNBA, saying she failed to prove the league didn\u2019t sufficiently investigate the Aces. However, the judge said her lawsuit against Las Vegas could continue.<\/p>\n

The Aces and Hamby agreed on Thursday to dismiss the case with prejudice, meaning she can\u2019t refile the same claim against the team. Each party is responsible for its attorneys\u2019 fees.<\/p>\n

Hamby told Front Office Sports<\/a> last week, \u201cI stand by what I said\u201d in the original complaint, and that \u201cthe case is resolved.\u201d She said she could not comment further on the case.<\/p>\n

The Aces did not immediately respond to The Athletic\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

After Hamby\u2019s 2023 trade, she came forward with her allegations of discrimination, and the WNBA investigated her claim. The probe ultimately led to the WNBA rescinding the Aces\u2019 2025 first-round pick for impermissible player benefits and suspending coach Becky Hammon for two games<\/a> for violating the league\u2019s \u201cRespect in the Workplace\u201d policies.<\/p>\n

In the lawsuit, Hamby alleged that during a January 2023 phone call, before her trade, Hammon told her she was a \u201cquestion mark.\u201d Hamby also alleged that during the call, Hammon did not deny Hamby\u2019s assertion that Hamby was being traded because she was pregnant.<\/p>\n

Hammon denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI handled Dearica with care from day one when she told me, and she knows that,\u201d Hammon said at a May 2023 news conference. \u201cOnce I made the phone call that the decision has been made to move her \u2014 you know, that\u2019s when everything kind of fell apart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hammon said the Aces made a \u201cmath and business\u201d decision to trade Hamby because it \u201ccould get three bodies in for her one contract.\u201d Las Vegas traded Hamby to the Sparks for the rights to Amanda Zahui B. and an exchange of 2024 draft picks.<\/p>\n

Hamby won the 2022 WNBA championship with the Aces before her trade. The team has gone on to win two more titles in three years.<\/p>\n

Hamby, a three-time All-Star, averaged a career-high 18.4 points, 7.9 rebounds and 3.3 assists in 44 regular-season games with the Sparks in 2025.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ben Pickman contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Aces and WNBA forward Dearica Hamby mutually agreed to dismiss her lawsuit against the team,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,3460,82,575,630],"class_list":["post-349404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-sports","tag-sports-business","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}