An ex-Timberwolves employee is out of jail on a supervised release after being arrested on a felony burglary charge for allegedly stealing 'strategic NBA information' from a team executive, according to a court filing Thursday that obtained by ESPN.
) is a senior writer for ESPN Digital and Print, focusing on the NBA. He has covered the Lakers, the Celtics and previously worked for The Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times.employee is out of jail on a supervised release after being arrested and charged with felony third-degree burglary for allegedly stealing thousands of internal files, including"strategic NBA information," from a team executive, according to a court filing Thursday that obtained by ESPN.
Sarkar must also avoid any property owned, operated or managed by the Timberwolves, and he cannot leave the state of Minnesota.According to a criminal complaint, also obtained by ESPN, Sarkar was fired from the team in February after taking a hard drive from the Target Center office of Gupta, a Timberwolves executive vice president who oversees the team's analytics department.
Another employee was able to recover the hard drive from Sarkar, and the team determined, after a computer forensic analysis, that Sarkar had accessed more than 5,000 files and downloaded them onto another device. When questioned by police, Sarkar said that, as a member of the coaching staff, he had the hard drive"to put some stuff on it," but he forgot to return it.
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