Marshall said a 100-day plan for organizational effectiveness has about four weeks leftNBAE/GETTY IMAGES
The Mavericks "quietly have begun a major front office shakeup," and Senior VP/Ticket Sales & Services George Prokos has "been suspended," according to sources cited by Eddie Sefko of the DALLAS MORNING NEWS. Prokos "supervised the former employee co-workers referred to as 'Pants DJ' because of the way he rubbed himself as he viewed pornography in the workplace." Prokos had been with the organization for 18 years and "has been a friend" of Owner Mark Cuban "since before he bought the Mavericks." A source also said that President & COO Floyd Jahner, who has served since '15 when Terdema Ussery left, has been "told his position is being eliminated." It is "not known" if Jahner, who has been with the club since '01, "would be reassigned or leave the organization." Mavs CEO Cynthia Marshall said that personnel moves are "inevitable when trying to make the front office a model for not just NBA teams but all businesses." The former employee "known as 'Pants DJ'" was Senior Account Exec Chris Hyde, who was the team's "top ticket salesman for much of his 15 years with the organization." Sources said that Hyde was "one of the central figures who helped create an inappropriate work environment." Three former employees said that he "showed them pornography on his computer or cellphone multiple times." Marshall said that the 100-day plan for organizational effectiveness has "about four weeks left and that the completion of that should coincide with the end of the internal investigation that has been ongoing since mid-February." As part of the reshuffling, the Mavs also are "adding responsibilities" for Exec VP George Killebrew, who now "will oversee the ticket sales department as well as continuing to lead the team's corporate sponsorship sales" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 6/2).
