In 2016, when Joe Lacob’s Warriors had just won a championship and were finishing up a 73-win regular season, the Golden State owner told The New York Times:
“We’re light-years ahead of probably every other team in structure, in planning, in how we’re going to go about things. We’re going to be a handful for the rest of the NBA to deal with for a long time.”
The quote was always going to come back someday to poke him in the nose. The only surprise is that it took six years.
