Warriors owner issues warning to rest of league
Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob is not here for your hot takes about how his team ruined the NBA.
In a feature by Ethan Strauss of The Athletic on Monday, Lacob addressed the backlash over the Warriors’ signing of DeMarcus Cousins this summer.
“There’s a lot of market inefficiencies in the NBA,” he said. “Other teams could have gotten Cousins, but they didn’t. There’s always going to be some sort of opportunity, some inefficiency, I believe.”
Lacob then went on to issue an ominous warning to the rest of the league.
“We’re still really hungry,” he added. “That’s what people should be worried about if they’re going to be worried about anything.”
Granted, the Dubs deserve credit for building a championship culture from the ground up. But they did indeed benefit from certain market factors (an unprecedented cap spike in 2016, Cousins’ Achilles injury hurting his value, etc.) in landing both Kevin Durant two years ago and Cousins this year.
As for Lacob, who is known for gassing up his team almost to the point that it’s off-putting, it’s certainly frightening for him to say that the Warriors are still hungry after back-to-back titles and three of them in the last four seasons. While their competitive fire seemed to wane at points last season, the addition of Cousins may be able to revitalize them and help them make the leap to a full-fledged dynasty.
H/T RealGM
