Warriors distance themselves from board member's Uyghur comments


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(Photo credit: Twitter @warriors) The NBA's Golden State Warriors have distanced themselves from executive board member Chamath Palihapitiya after he repeatedly said he did not care "about what's happening to the Uyghurs" on a podcast. "As a limited investor who has no day-to-day operating functions with the Warriors, Mr Palihapitiya does not speak on behalf of our franchise, and his views certainly don't reflect those of our organization," the San Francisco team said Monday on Twitter. Rights experts, witnesses and the US government have said that more than one million Uyghurs and other Turkic-speaking Muslims are incarcerated in camps in...