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Brianna Turner: Fever fired a male employee for sexual harassment, players encouraged to keep quiet ⁠15%

By DOUG FEINBERG — AP Basketball Writer⁠15%

7/23/2026, 11:38:10 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Appeal to Emotion, and Recency Bias, with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 16.6% saturation with 55 hits. Analysis detected 267 faulty-reasoning hits from 332 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 30.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠15% (18,752 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 85.70% of the article peer group.

CHICAGO (AP) — Brianna Turner said on social media that her former team, the Indiana Fever, fired a male employee last season for sexual harassment. 
Turner, who was with Indiana last season but now plays for the Las Vegas Aces, also said Fever players were encouraged not to discuss the firing. 
The Fever put out a statement Thursday that didn't directly address Turner's comments. 
“Protecting our players and employees and maintaining a respectful, professional workplace is our top priority,” the Fever said. 
“Our policy is to take concerns seriously, investigate thoroughly, and act promptly when appropriate to protect the people in our organization and ensure everyone is treated with professionalism and respect. 
Fostering trust and safety in that process means we do not comment on personnel matters involving former employees.” 
Turner’s comments were part of a series of posts she made in defense of transgender athletes. 
"To date there’s been one out trans player in the league. 
They caused zero problems,” Turner wrote in the posts on X on Wednesday. 
“An issue that has caused problems though? 
Last year on my WNBA team a male staff member was fired for sexual harassment, but we were encouraged to keep quiet about it. 
That is an issue." 
She didn't provide details of the firing. 
Turner’s comments came after a former teammate, Fever guard Sophia Cunningham, had also weighed in on the issue of transgender athletes competing in women’s sports. 
"I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. 
And I’m like, ‘I never once said that,’” Cunningham was quoted as saying in a story published this week by ESPN. 
“I think that I am here to extend love. 
But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. 
And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men." 
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AP WNBA: https://apnews.com/hub/wnba-basketball 
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332 words analyzed.

Speakers

4speakers77%attributed speech77writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageBrianna Turner • 25 words • 100.0% coverageBrianna Turner • 26 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageIndiana Fever • 18 words • 0.0% coverageIndiana Fever • 30 words • 0.0% coverageIndiana Fever • 18 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverageBrianna Turner • 11 words • 0.0% coverageBrianna Turner • 13 words • 0.0% coverageBrianna Turner • 7 words • 0.0% coverageBrianna Turner • 24 words • 0.0% coverageBrianna Turner • 4 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 0.0% coverageSophia Cunningham • 11 words • 0.0% coverageSophia Cunningham • 21 words • 0.0% coverageSophia Cunningham • 9 words • 0.0% coverageSophia Cunningham • 11 words • 0.0% coverageSophia Cunningham • 24 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageAP WNBA • 3 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Brianna Turner

94%flagged-word coverage
110 attributed words43% of attributed speech49% writer coverage
0%25.0%50.0%Unattributed Quote+50.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Brianna Turner: 50.0%50.0%Biased Writer Voice-16.9 ptsWriter: 16.9%Brianna Turner: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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