{"id":523618,"date":"2026-09-15T11:59:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/basketball-player-chad-baker-mazara-sues-coach-for-alleged-racist-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:59:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:59:44","slug":"basketball-player-chad-baker-mazara-sues-coach-for-alleged-racist-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/basketball\/basketball-player-chad-baker-mazara-sues-coach-for-alleged-racist-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball player Chad Baker-Mazara sues coach for alleged racist attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Los Angeles.- The basketball player of Dominican descent, Chad Baker-Mazara, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles against the University of Southern California (USC) men&#8217;s basketball coach, Eric Musselman, whom he accuses of having engaged in an explosive confrontation involving insults and racially charged comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baker-Mazara filed the lawsuit this Monday, alleging that Musselman lashed out at him in the locker room after the game USC played on February 28 against Nebraska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dominican played 19 minutes in that game, but had to leave the court in the second half after suffering an injury. USC ended up falling 82-67 to Nebraska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the lawsuit, when the team returned to the locker room, Musselman began yelling at his players. Baker-Mazara maintains that he tried to address his teammates by saying \u201cHey guys!\u201d, but that the coach reacted explosively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the court document, Musselman allegedly shouted at the player: \u201cShut up! You are one of the worst teammates anyone could have!\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lawsuit describes the episode as an insult-laden, racially charged tirade. Baker-Mazara also maintains that the incident occurred shortly before he was removed from the Trojans team in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The accusations were filed by the player within a judicial process and have yet to be evaluated. The lawsuit, by itself, does not determine that the events occurred as reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles.- The basketball player of Dominican descent, Chad Baker-Mazara, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles against the University of Southern California (USC) men&#8217;s basketball coach, Eric Musselman, whom he accuses of having engaged in an explosive confrontation involving insults and racially charged comments. Baker-Mazara filed the lawsuit this Monday, alleging that Musselman lashed out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":523619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35743],"tags":[44831],"class_list":["post-523618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-chad-baker-mazara"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2cds","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-15-at-11.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Ana Laura L\u00f3pez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.45.56-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Basketball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-15-at-11.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}