The Dallas Mavericks, in response to a Tuesday report by Sports Illustrated about inappropriate conduct in the workplace, issued a statement acknowledging some of the allegations.

There were no denials in the statement, which the Mavericks sent about an hour before SI put its story online.

The statement reads, in part: “The Dallas Mavericks have received information about behavior in our workplace that appears to have violated the organization’s standards of conduct.”

The statement did not include any names, but the SI investigative story said Terdema Ussery, who was the team’s president for nearly two decades before he left in 2015, was the primary figure. As far back as 1998, the Mavericks conducted an internal investigation about Ussery after several female employees lodged complaints about inappropriate workplace behavior.

The results of that probe were not released and neither then-owner Ross Perot Jr. nor Ussery commented on the findings, other than Ussery saying: “It’s been addressed.”

— The Dallas Morning News