A Manhattan judge warned the National Basketball Association Thursday that its former security director might have a slam dunk with at least part of his civil rights lawsuit.

Warren Glover sued the NBA saying that he was tormented and then fired in 2011 for years of complaints about the routine sexual harassment of female coworkers.

After listening to lawyers argue about whether she should dismiss the case outright, State Supreme Court Justice Lucy Billings warned the NBA lawyers that ultimately, "the plaintiff will sustain some claims" and she encouraged both sides to settle the five year old case rather than head to trial next year.

Billings comments came after NBA lawyer Kevin Perra said his client had agreed to go into mediation with Glover who is represented by Randolph McLaughlin.

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Billings also turned up the heat on the NBA to settle by saying she didn't think that most of the depositions and other evidence collected for the case should remain sealed.

Debra Cohen, another Glover lawyer, told reporters later that the secret depositions provide many more examples of egregious, sexist and misogynistic behavior by NBA managers.

So far, the only evidence released has been two photographs the association used to train recruits: one of a full breasted woman with her head replaced by Osama bin Laden and another of a scantily clad obese woman laying on top of a skinny man in bed.

"The NBA has a great deal to be concerned about," McLaughlin said.

In court, McLaughlin told the judge that Glover, a former NYPD lieutenant commander, was denied raises, plumb assignments, good bonuses and a promotion and was ultimately fired because he objected to the illegal treatment of women from 2004 until 2011, when he was axed.

"He did what he thought was right. He was treated like he was no longer a member of the boys' club," McLaughlin said.

Glover told reporters that he learned to respect women from his father, who raised him without a mother, and the NYPD.

"He always taught me the importance of doing the right thing," Glover said of his father. In the police department, he said, he learned that "responsibility comes with positions that you hold and you can't step away from that."

Glover said he was happy that the judge indicated he could win some of his claims but he added: "I've already won because a lot has been brought to the public."