The Golden State Warriors are playing the best basketball we've seen from them this season, and at just the right time. Nearly back to full strength for the first time all year, the Warriors have grabbed an early 2-0 lead in their playoff series against the Nuggets. Owner Joe Lacob isn't surprised by the success the Warriors are having in the postseason and took a shot at the Lakers while explaining how this is all part of the plan, via The Athletic.
Lacob told Tim Kawakami that “this is the team we paid for,” before taking a subtle shot at the Lakers, whose offseason spending ended up blowing up in their face.
“There are a couple teams, I’m not going to say who, there’s some other teams that went all-in on older players. And older players do get injured. That’s the thing you have to remember. Suppose we had made a trade, traded away all our youth, for I don’t know, you name the guy, and they’re injured, out for the year. Anytime you’re over 30, 32, 35, these people get injured. It’s data.”
Well, if that's not a shot at the Rob Pelinka and the Lakers, we're not sure what is. The Lakers were riddled with injuries to key players throughout the year, particularly Anthony Davis and LeBron James. LA went all-in in pursuit of another championship this offseason and fell flat on their faces. The Russell Westbrook acquisition and the overall exodus of youth talent in favor of veteran players was a proven disaster, and Lacob's comments will just rub salt in the wound of fans in LA.
While the Warriors are cruising in the NBA Playoffs, the Lakers are sitting on the couch wondering where things all went wrong. Perhaps if they focused their recruitment efforts away from a retirement home they'd be able to trot out a more capable team next season. Both teams dealt with injuries throughout the year, but the Warriors' roster proved far more capable of handling some absences than the Lakers.
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