NBA Player Anthony Lamb Accused of Rape in Lawsuit Against University of Vermont

NBA participant Anthony Lamb, at present a member of the Golden State Warriors, has been accused of rape in a brand new lawsuit filed in opposition to the College of Vermont that alleges the varsity mishandled quite a few rape allegations.

Kendall Ware, a former College of Vermont scholar athlete, is one in all three girls who’ve sued the varsity and its trustees for intercourse discrimination, denial of equal safety and violations of Title IX.

Whereas Ware beforehand went public along with her rape accusations in opposition to a Vermont basketball participant in the summertime of 2020 as a part of a Burlington Free Press story about her Title IX expertise, the lawsuit in opposition to the College of Vermont names Lamb as the person concerned for the primary time.

The lawsuit — obtained by Rolling Stone — particulars the alleged sexual assault that occurred on Sept. 7, 2019: Lamb and Ware, a member of the varsity’s swimming and diving staff, started courting in Jan. 2019, however broke up six months later. The subsequent faculty yr, Ware attended an off-campus occasion hosted by the Vermont males’s basketball staff, which included Lamb.

“Later that night, Lamb started screaming and insulting Ware within the driveway outdoors the home. Ware and Lamb went collectively to Lamb’s bed room, the place Ware believed that they’d be discussing Lamb’s rage that night time. Within the means of discussing their relationship and making up from the battle, Lamb started to have intercourse with Ware,” the lawsuit alleges. 

“Throughout the encounter, with out Ware’s consent, Lamb forcefully anally penetrated Ware as she repeatedly pleaded with him to cease, telling him ‘no’ again and again. Ignoring her unequivocal calls for, he advised her to ‘simply take it’ and continued to rape her. Within the aftermath, Ware felt frozen. At first, she dissociated from her physique. Then, she started to cry uncontrollably. One thought performed by way of her thoughts on loop: ‘I believe Anthony simply sexually assaulted me.’”

A month later, on Oct. 7, 2019, Ware says she reported the alleged rape and two different situations of sexual misconduct — together with one alleged incident the place Lamb filmed her throughout intercourse with out permission — to the College of Vermont’s Title IX Workplace, in line with the swimsuit.

Regardless of the following investigation into Lamb, the varsity continued to make use of Lamb in commercials selling Vermont’s sports activities. “Ware and her fellow college students requested UVM to drag the commercial, which appeared to publicly affirm that UVM didn’t care about, or didn’t imagine, its personal scholar survivors of sexual assault,” the lawsuit states.

Lamb shouldn’t be among the many defendants named on the plaintiffs’ lawsuit in opposition to the College of Vermont. A rep for the Golden State Warriors didn’t instantly return Rolling Stone‘s request for remark.

Lamb, who went undrafted after leaving Vermont in 2020, made temporary stops with the Houston Rockets and San Antonio Spurs earlier than becoming a member of the Warriors, the defending NBA champions, on a two-way contract this season. Lamb has so far performed a mean of 18 minutes throughout 18 video games this season for the Warriors.