{"id":350801,"date":"2025-12-15T21:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/350801\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T21:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:22:11","slug":"las-vegas-aces-dearica-hamby-agree-to-end-discrimination-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/350801\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Aces, Dearica Hamby agree to end discrimination lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 Dearica Hamby and the Las Vegas Aces mutually agreed to end the WNBA player’s discrimination lawsuit against her former team<\/a>, according to court filings.<\/p>\n

Hamby and the Aces filed a joint order on Thursday, Dec. 11, saying they’ve “resolved this matter and agree to dismiss this action in its entirety with prejudice,” meaning Hamby cannot bring the lawsuit back.<\/p>\n

Each side is responsible for attorneys’ fees.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Front Office Sports<\/a>, Hamby declined to comment on the case, except to say “I stand by what I said” in the original complaint. The Aces have not commented on the resolution.<\/p>\n

The veteran forward filed suit in federal court last year alleging the Aces rescinded benefits<\/a> provided on top of her player contract, including paying for her daughter’s private school tuition, after she revealed she was pregnant in September 2022.<\/p>\n

She alleged head coach Becky Hammon questioned Hamby’s commitment to the team before she was traded to the Los Angeles Sparks in January 2023.<\/p>\n

Hamby also alleged she faced further retaliation from the team after the trade. That included not being invited to a team visit to the White House in 2023 to celebrate the previous season’s championship and the team forbidding her daughter from being shown on the arena video board during a game later that year.<\/p>\n

Hammon denied any wrongdoing, saying that trading Hamby was only done to let the team sign Candace Parker. <\/p>\n

A WNBA investigation led to a two-game suspension for Hammon to start the 2023 season and the Aces forfeiting their 2025 first-round draft pick, however.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 Dearica Hamby and the Las Vegas Aces mutually agreed to end the WNBA player’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-350801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}