Joe Lacob Comments on Warriors’ Future After NBA Finals Loss to Cavaliers

June 22nd, 2016 by Tyler Conway Leave a reply »
Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob didn't wallow in his team's NBA Finals collapse. He got right to work on retooling the roster in preparation for next season.

“We will scratch and claw every single day,” Lacob said, per Jennifer Elias of the Silicon Valley Business Journal. “That’s why I couldn’t wait one hour after Sunday’s loss to start getting the team ready for next year.”

Lacob, 60, has grown from a mostly tertiary figure in the Warriors' run to one of their most outspoken proponents. His comments in a New York Times Magazine profile in April ruffled some feathers—notably his comment about being "light-years ahead of probably every other team in structure, in planning, in how we’re going to go about things.”

Despite the Warriors becoming the first team in NBA history to blow a 3-1 Finals lead, Lacob remains confident in his ability to create a winner. He touted the Warriors' use of small ball—they blasted the NBA record for three-pointers in a season (1,077), led by an individual high from Stephen Curry (402)—while ins ...

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