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Thunder’s Josh Giddey won’t face charges following allegations he had inappropriate relationship with minor

Thunder’s Josh Giddey won’t face charges following allegations he had inappropriate relationship with minor

Oklahoma City Thunder guard Josh Giddey won’t face charges following allegations he had an inappropriate relationship with a minor, Newport Beach police said. The department said it conducted a “thorough and exhaustive examination” into the claims, which The Athletic said emerged on social media, and “were unable to corroborate any criminal activity related to Mr. Giddey.” The police investigation is now closed. “The Newport Beach Police Department is committed to ensuring that accurate information is disseminated to the public, while also ensuring the rights of all those involved,” the department said in a news release Wednesday. The allegations against Giddey first surfaced in November. An anonymous social media user said a girl who was allegedly seen with the 21-year-old basketball player in videos and pictures was a high school junior at the time, the Associated Press reported. The post has since been deleted. Giddey declined to comment on the allegations at a November news conference during practice, telling reporters that “for right now I don’t have anything to say.” NBC News reached out to Giddey’s …

Why Is the NBA Letting Josh Giddey Play?

Why Is the NBA Letting Josh Giddey Play?

The NBA has shown in the recent past that it is willing to discipline players just for tarnishing its brand. So the league’s remarkably passive stance on Josh Giddey, a 21-year-old Oklahoma City Thunder guard, seems strangely out of place. Giddey is still playing. But he is under separate investigations by the league and by police in Newport Beach, California, amid suspicion that he had intimate contact with an underage girl in 2021. “I can’t think of many circumstances where we’ve suspended a player based on an allegation alone,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said last week on ESPN’s daily show NBA Today. “In this case, we have an allegation, a police investigation, and a parallel NBA investigation. Where there is a criminal investigation, we take a back seat.” The immediate effect of this approach has been that Giddey, who has not been criminally charged and has declined to comment on the issue, gets to keep playing while his case is adjudicated. Austin Murphy: The fall of Sports Illustrated That unsettles a number of fans; in …