The dust had scarce settled on the Golden State Warriors’ firing of head coach Mark Jackson Tuesday afternoon before Joe Lacob—the franchise’s majority owner—sounded off to select members of the Bay Area press.
Here’s a bit of what he had to say, via the San Jose Mercury News’ Tim Kawakami:
Mark, I mean, he’s a very compelling guy. And we spent over an hour and a half with him this morning.
You always wonder whether you’re doing the right thing, right? It’s not a simple thing.
Look we decided it really last night, this morning was when the decision was made. And met with Mark. We didn’t want to mess around–once we’d made that decision, we’d done our due diligence, spent a very hard 48 hours after the season, we made a decision.
Lacob made it clear that, despite having just fired a coach who won 51 games in a historically great Western Conference and came within one bad game of upending a Los Angeles Clippers team that looks every bit the part of a Finals lock, he’d prefer you not think of him as a “tough ogre ...
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Warriors Owner Joe Lacob Says He’s Not ‘Tough Ogre,’ Defends Firing Mark Jackson
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