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[You Play to Win the Game]

Jazz land Conley. That's big.

[You Play to Win the Game]

They sent Grayson Allen, Kyle Korver and Jae Crowder back to Memphis, as well as the 23rd pick in this year's draft, and a protected pick next year.

https://www.espn.com...ey-jazz-3-picks

[SportsGuy]

Nice deal for both sides.

If you are Memphis, you get rid of the contract and add 3 young assets. Nice deal.

Seems like Utah gave up a lot but there were a lot of suitors for Conley.

[mweb08]

Two likely late picks for Conley and a couple mediocre vets is not too bad a price for Utah. Allen is pretty worthless, but a guess he's like a scratch-off lottery ticket for the Grizz.

[mweb08]

The Memphis pick that Boston owns has taken a hit with this year's lottery and now draft.

[mweb08]

Meanwhile, Dame dropped a diss track on Marvin Bagley.

https://twitter.com/...3398554625?s=19

[SportsGuy]

Can anyone sell me on why Middleton should get a max contract?

[SportsGuy]

Btw, I hate the way the NBA does contracts.

[B00E00N00]

The Greek Freak wins the MVP:

 

https://www.espn.com...in-mvp-40-years

[Mark Carver]

Ok... they are now 'governors'.

 

NBA commissioner says league moved away from the term ‘owner’

 

https://www.foxnews....bnnTIv0TXdgXSMw
 

[SportsGuy]

Ok... they are now 'governors'.

 

NBA commissioner says league moved away from the term ‘owner’

 

https://www.foxnews....bnnTIv0TXdgXSMw
 

Dumbest story ever

[Mackus]

I would prefer steward, but not for the same reasons they are moving away from owner.  

[You Play to Win the Game]

Dumbest story ever

Maybe if your ancestors were "owned" at a point in time, you'd feel differently. I completely respect this decision and am a big admirer of Adam Silver for not being afraid to implement meaningful, thoughtful change. 

[SportsGuy]

Maybe if your ancestors were "owned" at a point in time, you'd feel differently. I completely respect this decision and am a big admirer of Adam Silver for not being afraid to implement meaningful, thoughtful change.

No, it’s stupid.

They own a business. They own a team. They don’t own the players. I have not heard an owner call a player his property. That would be wrong. The fact remains that they do own the team, therefore they are an owner.

So, the owner of the bank you work for shouldn’t be called an owner because minorities work there?

What about any other business where minorities work there? Should those people who own the business not be called owners?

[JordanKough]

No, it’s stupid.

They own a business. They own a team. They don’t own the players. I have not heard an owner call a player his property. That would be wrong. The fact remains that they do own the team, therefore they are an owner.

So, the owner of the bank you work for shouldn’t be called an owner because minorities work there?

What about any other business where minorities work there? Should those people who own the business not be called owners?

 

Defending the idea that we allow a group of people that are predominantly privileged and white be called "owners" of a predominantly black league simply because the definition is true and it's what you've always done is a really poor practice. 

 

As for your analogy, if 90% of the people that worked at banks were black, then yes, we should stop calling them owners, too. Unfortunately, I'm guessing that when it comes to hiring practices of banks, we'd likely find that the ratio of employees is less proportionate to the people of color in our country compared to those that work there (particularly at the star player or equivalent in a bank type high manager type level). And no...people that work at the bank don't call the people that own them "owners" either. They call them CEO or Board of Directors. So your silly strawman falls flat in a number of ways.

 

There is a reason business leaders are rarely referred to as owners and frankly it's because it can be construed as offensive. I own my own consulting firm but I don't say I'm on an owner, I say I founded it, or that I run a business. And I wouldn't want anyone that works for me to call me "the owner" either. You can disagree without calling this concept stupid. 

 

I'm not going to say anything more about this because politics isn't part of this board but this comment felt so absurdly out of touch to me that it needed to be explicitly responded to. 

[SportsGuy]

Lol

[PD24]

Draymond Green started this by saying the term owner was disrespectful, and in Draymond Green's twitter bio it says he is the owner of a company. Hilarious stuff!!!!! 

[DJ MC]

The league's ownership council has been the "Board of Governors" for a while, if not all along. I'm also guessing most teams in most sports don't have an "owner" anymore, just like most don't have a "general manager": they have been going with more businesslike titles.

 

This seems like just another place where a person wants to make a point, and people with agendas blow it far out of proportion.

[SportsGuy]

Woj is reporting that the Celtics are the front runner for Kemba

[Mike B]

Woj is reporting that the Celtics are the front runner for Kemba

Good replacement for Kyrie.

They may be better with Kemba.