Joining Cleveland Cavs owner and NBA Finals opponent Dan Gilbert at our historic "Minds Behind the Game" NBA panel on Friday in San Francisco, Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob opened up on everything from new technology in sports to his time as a peanut hawker in Southern California.
You can watch the full panel video at this link, but we thought we'd boil down the best of what he had to say with The 5 best quotes from Joe Lacob at Minds Behind the Game.
1. On the Warriors Moving To San Francisco In 2018
https://youtu.be/TMStWLcum0k
Dan: "We'll have Steph Curry by then."
Joe: (Laughs) “Is that tampering?”
2. On LeBron James' last shot in regulation during Game 1
“All I could think of was they had the last shot again -- a different team -- and he's goes right to the same spot and I'm like 'Not again!' That's all I could think of. Of course he missed it, but then the follow-up came really close..."
3. Showing off his peanut call
https://youtu.be/MvbvSqJunf8
Audience question: "Joe, can I hear your peanut call?"
Joe: "It's been a long time since I've done this. Peanuts! Peanuts here! Peanuts! Peanuts! Peanuts!"
4. On His Time And Work In The Bay Area
"The truth is there's something very magical in the water here. I told my kids as they were growing up, when they were choosing colleges, I used to tell them to go look at different places. But, you come back here and there's just something that is hard to say. It's a cultural thing that is very encouraging of entrepreneurship. Even when you talk to kids that come out of places like Stanford, they're just a different breed. I'm sure there have been other places in the world like that, but there's something about this place."
5. On Rihanna
https://youtu.be/39Mc8qIhR3o
Joe: "I want to clarify something. I did not give her the seats. Everybody was talking about this on the radio today as I was driving around the city going to different meetings. She bought seats and paid a lot of money for them, so she can root for anybody she wants. But, I thought I'd be a nice guy. So, I took my two kids and booted them down to the end and moved her next to me. Sitting next to the owner, it was a nice thing to do."
Dan: "What did she do wrong?"
Joe: "She was rooting for LeBron the whole game."
Dan: "No, I mean what did she do wrong that you made her sit next to you?"
Joe: "I thought I was being friendly. Anyways, she was rooting for LeBron the whole game. So, finally I was getting irritated and I said, 'Hey, I'm the owner of the Warriors.' She didn't care. She just kept going. So, finally I just said that's it and I moved a couple seats down. Everybody has it that I moved my fiancé next to her because she got upset that I was sitting next to Rihanna, which was not true."
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