Ex-Coach Luke Walton Discussion

This is..wow, kinda blown away. I’m an innocent until proven guilty, don’t jump to conclusions kind of person, but I don’t know about this one, not a lot of reasons I can see she’d be making this up.

 

Is it theoretically possible? yes. Is it likely? common sense says no.

Whenever such a story comes out YEARS after it has happened...it is BS to me until proven otherwise. Another gold digger trying to get a piece of the pie.

What stopped her from filing this lawsuit 3 years ago? Or when they met again and he made sexual comments towards her?

 

This isn't funny if true but I had to LOL after reading your comment.

 

I take it you've never had to deal with a loved one in this position. If not, I understand your take. I hope you never have to deal with it, but if it happened to someone you know, it would be insanely obvious why people wait or never report these things.

 

You are correct in your assumption. I don't disagree that maybe I don't get it thoroughly. But my thinking is as follows:

She wasn't "raped" as the report says. So I would assume the psychological damage is rather "limited" if that makes sense. You can get over it sooner probably than years.

Also if a victim NEVER comes out with the story, I understand it because it is hard to deal with questions with regard to your sexual life, privacy etc. Your name gets thrown out there and whenever someone googles your name, thats the first, second and last thing that pops up. So I do understand if someone doesn't want to deal with the sh**storm after the accusations are out there. Thats logical and makes sense to me.

But when you come out crawling 3-4 years later, it defeats the purpose and its fishy to say at least and raises an eyebrow. It doesn't mean she is lying, but she doesn't get the benefit of the doubt, nor should she (in dubio pro reo). If she can prove that it happened, good for her and it means Luke is a terrible human being. If she has some unsubstantiated claims which is likely to be the case, do we give her the benefit of the doubt? The law typically says no with good reason.

The probability that she is saying the truth isn't any higher than Luke being innocent.

 

I’ll wait to hear more. I don’t like the terminology in these cases. Sexual assault is a huge range of cases, and what he’s accused of is neither the most severe nor the least severe in that range. Perhaps it’s closer to the less severe though. All that said, sometimes people take time to process what happened. And after a time they realize they cannot continue to heal without confronting and/or seeing the offender face justice. In other cases it takes time to process. It’s honestly hard to come forward and accuse someone - because there will be those who don’t believe you and even some who will blame you.

Maybe high profile cases are different. But in most cases there’s no reason to fabricate a story.

 

Weren’t there rumors that Magic had done something like this and that’s why he stepped down?