Rick Welts, the gay president and chief operating officer of the Golden State Warriors, will step away from the organization at the end of the 2020-21 season, he and the team announced April 8.
The team noted in a news release that Welts guided the NBA franchise to one of the most successful decades in NBA history from a business operations perspective.
Welts has been a member of the NBA for nearly five decades, including this most recent stint with the Warriors, which began in 2011, several months after he publicly came out as gay in a New York Times article while serving as president and CEO of the Phoenix Suns.