“In my wildest dreams – and I have had some pretty big dreams and some wild dreams in my life — I never saw this coming,” Marshall said at a Mavericks press conference at American Airlines Center.

“While I grew up playing sports supporting my three children in their sports endeavors and can often be down cheering for my favorite sports teams, all of that is very different from receiving a call from the owner of an NBA team with a passionate – and I can’t express that enough – with a passionate and heartfelt invitation to contribute to sports and the community in a unique way.”

Marshall retired as senior vice president-Human Resources and chief diversity officer at AT&T in 2016.

She joined Pacific Bell in 1981 and held several leadership positions in business operations, human resources, network engineering and planning, and regulatory/external affairs, including senior vice president-Human Resources.

Currently, Marshall is running a consulting firm she founded that specializes in leadership, diversity and inclusion, culture transformation and optimization of people resources.

According to WRAL TechWire, the Dallas Morning News reported Mavericks owner Mark Cuban's decision to hire Marshall on Friday “in a capacity that will help lead the revitalization of the franchise," the newspaper said.

Sports Illustrated reportedly broke the story of"more than a dozen current and ex-employees characteriz[ing] the Mavs’ hostile work environment—ranging from sexual harassment to domestic violence—as an ‘open secret,'” the magazine said.

“It’s wrong. It’s abhorrent. It’s not a situation we condone,” Cuban told the magazine. “I can’t tell you how many times, particularly since all this [#MeToo] stuff has been coming out recently, I asked our HR director, ‘Do we have a problem? Do we have any issues I have to be aware of?’ And the answer was no.”

As President, AT&T North Carolina, Marshall was directly responsible for the company’s regulatory, legislative and community affairs activities in the state while overseeing AT&T’s operations of 7,000 employees from January 2007 through late 2012.

She also served on the Board of Directors for numerous organizations, including the Foundation for the Carolinas and the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology, and Science.