Golden State’s majority owner Joe Lacob was widely criticized in the media for his comments saying the Warriors were “lightyears ahead” of the rest of the NBA, but their dominance over the rest of the league speaks for itself.
Lacob, Peter Guber, and the rest of the Warriors’ front office have been just as dominant on the business side of things as the franchise was recently ranked third in Forbes’ rankings of the most valuable teams in the NBA.
Golden State was ranked sixth in the 2016 edition of these rankings, then they made a jump to third in 2017 with a 37% increase in value to $2.