Former NBA player Mike Bibby is having a rough 2019 so far after a teacher accused him of sexual misconduct and the details surrounded the allegations are pretty intense and scary.
Via AZ Central:
Mike Bibby, a former NBA player and the head basketball coach at Shadow Mountain High School, is under investigation after allegations of sexual abuse and harassment from a Shadow Mountain teacher.
The teacher alleges in the restraining order that in February 2017 she was walking outside toward her classroom when she spotted Bibby driving on campus. She did not know him personally, she wrote.
He gestured toward her. She walked to the driver’s side of the car as he swung open the door and jumped out.
According to the order, Bibby picked her up “around the hips” and carried her into the driver’s seat, her head on the console and her legs splayed out the open door as he laid on top of her. She smelled alcohol on his breath, she wrote.
He started to rub his body and genitals on her, groping her, she wrote, and he told her, “What I could do to you.”
She slid out from underneath him and moved toward the main doors of one of the school buildings, and he followed, she wrote in the restraining order.
As two staff members looked on, he held her around her waist, hugged her, rubbed his erect penis against her, and made sexually explicit statements, she wrote. She said she tried to push him away.
She wrote that she was “in shock, in fear, intimidated by his actions, afraid of him as he smelled of alcohol.”
The teacher told Bibby, according to the restraining order, that he was “out of line” and that he had sexually abused her. He responded that he had been drinking that day and told her she was a “beautiful and nice person,” according to the document. He told her he wanted to date her.
She said she wasn’t interested and for him to stay away. He asked her if she was going to “tell” and she said no because she was thinking of his players.
Because of these damning allegations, Mike Bibby will no longer serve as head boys basketball head coach at Shadow Mountain. The Paradise Valley Unified School District confirmed Monday that it was undergoing an internal investigation and police are also investigating claims against the 40-year-old coach.
“He is no longer eligible to volunteer as our coach pending the outcome of the investigations,” wrote Becky Kelbaugh, a spokeswoman with the school district, in an emailed statement to the Arizona Republic.
Bibby is an alumnus of Shadow Mountain, where he played on the school’s first state title winning team in 1996. The following year, Bibby would win a National Title as a member of the Arizona Wildcats.
