Lacob addresses Steph’s comments about uncertain Warriors future

Lacob addresses Steph’s comments about uncertain Warriors future originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Steph Curry wants to remain a Warrior for life.

The only exception to that, he said, would be if Golden State eventually sunk to the bottom of the Western Conference and became a tanking team.

“It’s tough, right? I’ve always said I want to be a Warrior for life,” Curry told Andscape’s Marc J. Spears in a recent interview. “At this stage in my career, I feel like that’s possible. And you can still be a competitive, it doesn’t mean you guaranteed the championship. It doesn’t mean winning. Winning is always a priority, but obviously you’re realistic.

” … Let’s put it this way, it’s a longwinded way of saying that if it is a situation where you’re a bottom feeder and it’s just because you want to stay there, I’d have a hard time with that. But I don’t think that’s going to be the reality.”

Warriors owner Joe Lacob also would like Curry to remain with the only NBA organization he’s ever known. But after the emotional and franchise-altering departure of Klay Thompson, eyes have been opened and anything can happen.

But Lacob didn’t take Curry’s words to Spears to heart, and he certainly wasn’t surprised by them.

“From what I’ve heard, all he said was what you’d expect, which is, ‘I want to win.’ And if we were a really bad team, I guess he would rethink whether he really wanted to finish his career here,” Lacob said on “Audacy’s The TK Show.” “But that’s not the case and he didn’t expect that to be the case.

“And certainly from many conversations I’ve had with Steph, and I’m pretty close to Steph, we talk a lot and we have a great relationship — I think he’s very comfortable with the path of the franchise and how hard we do try to put as good of a product out on the court as we can.”

After winning their fourth title as a unit three seasons ago, the Warriors were bounced from the second round of the NBA playoffs the following year and failed to make the playoffs last season.

Curry certainly isn’t showing any signs of slowing down anytime soon, but the clock still is ticking on the…

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Publish date : 2024-07-26 22:28:49

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