canesarchitect
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My house is ****ed at me.
Progressive NBA letting the inmates run the show.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver now says that the league has “moved away” from using the term “owner,” because he is “sensitive” to the racial connotations some apply to the word.
Early in June, some voices started calling for an end to the use of the term for owners of NBA teams because some claim to be uncomfortable using the term due to America’s history of slavery.
Several teams already started employing different terms to call team owners to avoid the “racially insensitive” term of “owner,” Breitbart reported on June 3.
Several days later, activist actor and rapper Common picked up on the controversy and proclaimed “Nobody owns us.”
Now the NBA’s commissioner is speaking out in agreement on the matter.
“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 told TMZ. “But we moved away from that term years ago in the league.”
“We call our team owners ‘Governor of the team’ and ‘alternate Governor,'” Silver added. “I’m sensitive to it, and I think to the extent teams are moving away from the term, we’ll stick with using Governor.”
Silver admitted that some players have spoken up inside the league and said that the term “owner” is not a problem for them. He even noted that when Michael Jordan was able to call himself an owner, it was “the greatest thing that ever happened.”
Still, Silver concluded saying, “But, of course, Draymond Green has been very public about the fact that we should be moving away from the term … and I completely respect that.”
Silver was referring to a segment of LeBron James’ talk show, The Shop, where Warriors forward Draymond Green bristled at the term late last year.
“You shouldn’t say owner,” Green said at the time. Green added that owners should be called CEOs or majority shareholder, or some other term because it was insensitive to say a white man owns the labor of black men.
Since then at least two teams, the Philadelphia 76ers and the L.A. Clippers, have decided to dump the term
Do you own your house?
What happens if you don’t pay your property taxes, Guvna?
Great another thread telling black people how they should feel and properly react to their experiences. Audacious Paternalism all over the site today.
I have the deeds to this and other houses...
Your point Guvna???
Lol Big facts.That is correct Guvna .....I agree 100%
As Donald Sterling learned that the hard way ...you don't own your franchise...you Can be forced to sell your interest/investment if the NBA so wishes.....IF you truly "owned" it no one could tell you anything about how you operate your organization
So the "NBA Owners" were never owners to begin with
So as a franchisee......In the NBA , as an investor ...you are called whatever the NBA says you should be called
But they'll always be Guvna's to me
Projecting again. All your opinions stem from fear. Including the one you made where you suggested that “black people go back to Africa”. We got some K - K - K - A - N - E - S KKKanes over here!!!!!SOMEONE GET THIS MAN TO A SAFE SPACE DIAL 911 SOMEONE HURRY BEFORE HE GETS BULLIED OR SOMETHING HALP THIS MAN SOMEONE
I had to get all up in your business to make this point:
You may own the houses, but if you don’t pay your taxes they will Donald Sterling the whole thing right out from under you.
So maybe you’re not really an owner after all. Maybe you’re just a...Guvna.
Do you own your house?
What happens if you don’t pay your property taxes, Guvna?
Full ownership of a home is not achieved until the mortgage(s) are paid in full.
Partial ownership of a home remains as you pay down the outstanding balance from what was likely the majority owner (lending institution) at the outset.
After making millions of dollars putting a leather ball through a hole Green felt he needed to find a greater purpose to his life.
And this was it.
White supremacyTell us which words we should get rid cause words hurt.
Lebron making more money off the court than on..craziest part..and as a man I don’t think you’d go for that level of disrespectPay me what Lebron makes and you can call me your property or anything else you want to.
Full ownership of a home is not achieved until the mortgage(s) are paid in full.
Partial ownership of a home remains as you pay down the outstanding balance from what was likely the majority owner (lending institution) at the outset.
Rel, I hear you, but everyone considers the above ownership. Having said that, people own things in a country, state, county, city, township, and even HOA neighborhoods and have to abide by those governing bodies taxes. Taxes that pay for a plethora of things, so essentially it's one big HOA.