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ESPN Senior Writer- Michael Voepel is a senior writer who covers the WNBA, women's college basketball and other college sports. Voepel began covering women's basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996.
The WNBA followed up on an allegation that a Seattle Storm assistant coach cursed at a Las Vegas Aces player after the teams' game Sunday, Seattle general manager Talisa Rhea confirmed Thursday.
A source did not say who made the allegation or whom it was against. The Aces beat the Storm 75-70 at Climate Pledge Arena. It was the teams' second meeting this season; the Storm won the first 102-82 on May 25 in Seattle.
Rhea said Thursday that the WNBA's probe of the comment remains active.
"We're aware," Rhea said. "It's an alleged comment and the league is looking into it and that's really the extent of it. It's not an investigation into our organization, and it's with the league, so we're just waiting. That's all the information we have and can share at this time."
After last season, longtime Storm player Jewell Loyd filed a complaint against Seattle's coaching staff, sources told ESPN. Subsequently, she requested a trade and was sent to Las Vegas in a three-team deal Feb. 1.
The Storm hired a law firm to investigate the accusations of harassment and bullying by the team's coaches regarding player performance. The completion of that investigation was announced in December with no finding of any violations.
Storm coach Noelle Quinn told reporters in February, "I believe that the organization did the right thing. Throughout this entire process, the communication level was tremendously high. I felt supported in a lot of ways and I know my staff felt supported as well. With anything like this, it is important to take the right steps and our organization did that."
ESPN's Kevin Pelton contributed to this report.
