Warriors co-owner Peter Guber wrote to team employees Monday that he regretted if anyone was offended by his unintentional use of “hoodish” in an email, according to Yahoo Sports.
The Warriors confirmed the authenticity of Guber’s response to an email from vice president of communications Raymond Ridder, who had celebrated in an email that a third of the team’s roster to begin the season — Andrew Bogut, Leandro Barbosa, Festus Ezeli, Ognjen Kuzmic, Nemanja Nedovic — were international players.
“I’m taking rosetta stone to learn Hungarian Serbian Australian swahili and hoodish This year. But it’s nice,” Guber wrote in an email response obtained by Yahoo Sports.
Guber, who is Jewish, later wrote that he meant to type “Yiddish” in his phone rather than “hoodish.”
“Someone just brought to my attention that an email I responded to earlier contains the word ‘hoodish,’ which I don’t even think Is a Word, and certainly not the one I intended to use,” Guber wrote in an email obtained by Yahoo Sports. “I intended to type Yiddish. Either my mobile fone [sic] autocorrected or it was typed wrong. In any event I regret if anyone was unintendedly [sic] offended.”
“Peter’s email clarifications to employees late last night are self-explanatory,” Ridder said Tuesday. “He noted the word he intended to use and thought he used and regretted if anyone was unintentionally offended.”
Guber did not immediately reply to a message seeking comment.
The emails from Guber came at a time when other NBA owners have seen consequences come from making racial statements. after Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson announced last month he would sell his controlling interest in the team and apologized for focusing on race in an August 2012 email.
The NBA also banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life in April after a recorded comments surfaced of him asking a friend not to bring black people to games or publicly associate with them. The news led to talk of a boycott of games as the Warriors were playing in a first-round playoff series against the Clippers, a team that was eventually sold.
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