{"id":379838,"date":"2026-10-22T16:48:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379838\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T16:48:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:48:47","slug":"brooklyn-nets-ex-vp-says-he-was-fired-for-taking-parental-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379838\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Nets Ex-VP Says He Was Fired for Taking Parental Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Brooklyn Nets executive is accusing the NBA organization of firing him because he took parental leave.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Whalen, who was the vice president of cybersecurity, was terminated 16 days after taking leave to care for his newborn son, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/WhalenvBrooklynNetsLLCetalDocketNo126cv06771EDNYOct212026CourtDoc?doc_id=XUV6TBPSMJ89BP0AVB4A6NOUJJ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">complaint<\/a> filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn Nets LLC, which does business as Brooklyn Sports &amp; Entertainment, has also been hit with claims in recent years from other staff alleging they were fired for speaking about <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/brooklyn-nets-settle-claims-of-firings-over-social-justice-talk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social justice issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whalen joined the Nets in 2024 as a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Brooklyn Nets executive is accusing the NBA organization of firing him because he took parental leave.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,3007,21721,9,24,63,139359,139360,139361],"class_list":["post-379838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-cybersecurity","tag-employment-discrimination","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-parental-leave","tag-performance-appraisals","tag-retaliatory-discharge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}