Stephen A Smith had a passionate reaction the other day as some are saying the NBA should move away from using the word "Owner" in describing the people who own a team. https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status/1148311164679524353
For the record, I asked our guys to stop using "Redskins" several years ago where they could. In some places where we're using all the team names, we still do. But I ask our writers, myself included, to use Washington wherever we can.
But back to "owner".
Last year I quietly asked our guys to use the word GM ( @General Malaise ) or General Manager instead of Owner. I'm not militant about it. It's just something I casually asked our guys to do. It's not "official policy" whatever that is.
My thinking is it's very often it's a white guy that's running a fantasy team that's very often made up of a lot of black players. It just seemed like an unnecessarily bad look. When it's just as easy to write GM or General Manager. And like with Washington, it's not an absolute thing. In DFS, "Percent Owned" is a standard phrase everyone looks for. We'll use the term there as without it, people think we don't have the info they're looking for.
But Stephen A.'s post made me think. We'll still continue to use GM or General Manager as it's so easy. But I was wondering what you guys thought about using the word "owner" for Fantasy General Managers.
And for now, let's leave the real NBA and NFL owners out of the talk.
For the record, I asked our guys to stop using "Redskins" several years ago where they could. In some places where we're using all the team names, we still do. But I ask our writers, myself included, to use Washington wherever we can.
But back to "owner".
Last year I quietly asked our guys to use the word GM ( @General Malaise ) or General Manager instead of Owner. I'm not militant about it. It's just something I casually asked our guys to do. It's not "official policy" whatever that is.
My thinking is it's very often it's a white guy that's running a fantasy team that's very often made up of a lot of black players. It just seemed like an unnecessarily bad look. When it's just as easy to write GM or General Manager. And like with Washington, it's not an absolute thing. In DFS, "Percent Owned" is a standard phrase everyone looks for. We'll use the term there as without it, people think we don't have the info they're looking for.
But Stephen A.'s post made me think. We'll still continue to use GM or General Manager as it's so easy. But I was wondering what you guys thought about using the word "owner" for Fantasy General Managers.
And for now, let's leave the real NBA and NFL owners out of the talk.
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