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Don’t cry for Joe Lacob and the Warriors’ ownership group

Don’t cry for Joe Lacob and the Warriors’ ownership group

I’m not sure how you can profess to be “light-years ahead of probably every other team in structure, in planning, in how we’re going to go about things” and complain about the rules governing the structure and planning that all NBA franchises are subject to, but Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob is sure trying. Lacob will have you believe it’s “very unfair” that the Warriors have to pay escalating taxes in order to keep a championship team together, when his unique ability to rage… Source link

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NBA fines Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob $500,000 after calling luxury tax system ‘unfair’

NBA fines Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob $500,000 after calling luxury tax system ‘unfair’

Warriors owner Joe Lacob was fined $500,000 on Wednesday after he made comments criticizing the NBA’s current luxury tax system. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images) The NBA fined Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob $500,000 on Wednesday for comments he made bashing the league’s current luxury tax system, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Lacob said on a recent episode of the “Point Forward” podcast that the luxury tax is part of a “very unfair system.” Lacob was fined as the… Source link

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Joe Lacob says Chase Center finally done

SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob says he’s not a tweeter, but if he were to send a tweet, he knows exactly what it would say. “I would tweet, ‘Tonight Chase Center is finally finished with construction,’ ” Lacob told Yahoo Sports Sunday night after Klay Thompson made his season debut after spending nearly two years recovering from ACL and Achilles tears. “We’re halfway through our third year in this building, and I feel like Klay is the final piece to the… Source link

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