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NBA Stopped Using the Term 'Owner' Years Ago (https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=323567)

NBA Stopped Using the Term 'Owner' Years Ago

NBA players are the biggest ****ing pussies LMAO LMAO LMAO

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Adam Silver on NBA using 'Governor' in place of 'owner' title: 'We moved away from that term years ago'

Silver said he is sensitive to 'owner' and that the league is continuing to move away from that term

As NBA teams make some major moves over the offseason, a potentially less-noticeable change is already occurring throughout the league.

According to commissioner Adam Silver, the NBA is continuing to move away from the use of the term "owner" to describe those with controlling interest of teams in favor of the terms "Governor of the team" and "alternate Governor."

The change was made due to concerns that the term "owner" can be viewed as racially insensitive in a league where the vast majority of players are African-American and the majority of owners are Caucasian. While the league itself stopped using the term years ago, individual teams are now starting to follow suit; something Silver was asked about.

"I don't want to overreact to the term because, as I said earlier, people end up twisting themselves into knots avoiding the use of the word 'owner,'" Silver said, via TMZ Sports. "But we moved away from that term years ago with the league. We call our team owners 'Governors' of the team and 'alternate Governors. So I think it makes sense. As I said, I don't want to overreact ... but I'm sensitive to it, and I think to the extent that teams are moving away from the term, we'll stick with using Governor."

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green is an example of a prominent player that has recently spoke out against the league's previous use of the word owner.

"You shouldn't say owner," Green said on an appearance on HBO's The Shop. "[It should be called] CEO or Chairman. When you think of a basketball team ... you think of the players that make that team."

To follow along with this trend, the Philadelphia 76ers recently changed the title of their owners to managing partners, and Steve Ballmer is listed as chairman on the Los Angeles Clippers official website. Other teams will likely follow in the near future.

Perhaps they should consider the term, 'capitalist overlord'.

Nah, they are owners

Shouldn't this have been a DC thread? Seems like it will get there soon enough anyways.

time to get outraged!!!!!

If you think an NBA player making millions and millions - getting paid directly from the team owner is like slavery - that is offensive to slaves. Ive heard players talk about the slave mentality that owners have or bla bla bla. And the crazy thing is people eat this shit up. Can you just imagine if a real life slave heard them say that - how ****ing pissed off they would be? The slave is out there getting whipped, working in horrid conditions against their will for no money and then comes home to read about millionaires complaining that THEY are being treated like slaves. Just unfathomable.

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Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 14319817)

Perhaps they should consider the term, 'capitalist overlord'.

I like that.

Or maybe "Head Honcho" or "Supreme Leader"

There are a bazillion better things to worry about. An owner owns the team. The team employs players through a mutual contract.

They own the team, not the players. This is just shit people do when they need to bitch about something. The owner of Walmart has white employees too, is it ok to use the word owner when the employees are white. Moronic shit. :shake:

I submit "God Emperor" to the list of suggestions.

It’s a league of black players with a fan base heavily black and Hispanic. If they don’t like the word slave it’s their prerogative and the commissioner should do what they request.

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Originally Posted by JakeF (Post 14319861)

The NBA can and will use whatever words they like. They don't give a **** what you think and they shouldn't.