NBA drama breaks out over using the word ‘owner’
Mark Cuban is taking exception to Draymond Green’s comments about team owners.
Green said last week they should be called chairmen, so as not to insinuate that they own someone, in the wake of Texans owner Bob McNair’s comment that the NFL “can’t have inmates running the prison.”
Now, Cuban wants an apology.
“For him to try to turn it into something it’s not is wrong,” the Mavericks owner told ESPN. “He owes the NBA an apology. I think he does, because to try to create some connotation that owning equity in a company that you busted your ass for is the equivalent of ownership in terms of people, that’s just wrong. That’s just wrong in every which way.”
Green was one of many athletes who took to social media to express anger regarding McNair’s comment, calling it “Donald Sterling-esque” as part of a longer Instagram post.