[From ESPN]

The NBA never spoke with a woman who says then-New Orleans Pelicans center Jaxson Hayes hit her in a 2021 incident that led to his arrest on domestic violence charges.

Hayes, who now plays for the Los Angeles Lakers, also was not disciplined by the NBA after his no-contest plea on misdemeanor charges of false imprisonment and resisting an officer, despite a league policy that says such a plea "will conclusively establish a violation." For his plea in the criminal case, Hayes was sentenced to community service, one year of weekly domestic violence classes and three years' probation.

Waukeen McCoy and Laura Stone, attorneys for Hayes' former girlfriend, Sofia Jamora, said they remember receiving a call from a person in the NBA's legal department investigating the incident. McCoy says he returned the call and left a message but never heard back again.

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