Warriors co-Owner Peter Guber "expressed regret to team employees" late yesterday for "listing 'hoodish' as a language he planned to learn in reply to an email commending the franchise for having five international players on this season's roster," according to Marc Spears of YAHOO SPORTS. Guber said that he "meant to type 'Yiddish,' and did not realize his mistake until it was pointed out to him by a Warriors official." Guber's e-mail, which was "sent from his phone ... came after the NBA announced in a news release earlier Monday that the league's 30 teams will have a record 101 international players from 37 countries and territories on opening-night rosters for the upcoming season." Guber, who is a part of the group buying the new MLS team that will play in L.A. in '17, responded to the e-mail by writing, "I’m taking rosetta stone to learn Hungarian Serbian Australian swahili and hoodish This year. But it's nice." Guber's initial e-mail was "sent throughout the franchise and construed as 'offensive' by at least one team employee." Guber wrote, "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" (SPORTS.YAHOO.com, 10/28). CBSSPORTS.com's Zach Harper writes outside of "Australian not being a language and English being the national language of Nigeria, this does seem like an honest mistake." Harper typed "Yiddish" into his phone, but there "wasn't an autocorrect that came up." Harper: "When I typed 'hoodish' into my phone, 'hooding' and 'hoodies' were the two autocorrect possibilities that came up, but that can be different based on your history of typing. More than likely, it was simply mistyped and not some deep seeded racially insensitive comment." However, following the Donald Sterling and Danny Ferry incidents, "any little slip-up, intentional or not, is going to be met with immediate reaction" (CBSSPORTS.com, 10/28).
