When Kevin Durant signed with the Golden State Warriors it really turned the competitiveness of the NBA upside down. The Warriors were already the best team in the NBA, but now they had only gotten a lot better.
Many of the owners and front offices around the league weren't very happy and team owner Joe Lacob had to pay for it at the owners meeting.
“That [NBA] owners meeting, the July after we got Kevin, was a difficult one,” Lacob said via ESPN. “I felt really personally persecuted by the other owners.”
The NBA is popular as ever, but it still isn't good for the league when the last four years the Finals have featured the two same teams, the Warriors, and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Lacob isn't concerned about what the rest of the league thinks and wants to make one thing clear, his only concern is winning.
“We can't worry about that,” he said. “Our job is to win. Our job is to do the best for our fans and for our partners and our organization.
“The truth is, we've got to keep doing it. You can't just rest on your laurels. We have to start working on next year right now.”
Warriors assistant manager Kirk Lacob doesn't understand why teams who can't beat the Warriors first impression is to complain, rather than go and try and make a team that beat them.
“When somebody else wins or does well, my dad doesn't think, ‘Oh, that's so unfair,'” said Warriors assistant general manager, Kirk Lacob. “He immediately goes to, ‘How can we beat them?'
From the sounds of these comments, the Warriors aren't planning on making any changes for next season, and won't be letting up for the rest of the league.
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