Warriors owner Joe Lacob is trying to retcon the team’s past couple of seasons.
“There’s no such thing as the two timelines,” Lacob told the Bay Area News Group. “There never was and still isn’t and never will be. There’s only one timeline, and the timeline is every year to put the best product on the floor, to have the best team, to compete the best you can to win a championship.”
Lacob is, at best, playing a semantic game. While he never technically used the phrase “two timelines” in a July 2021 interview with The Athletic, he did say the “more likely path” for the organization was “to bridge the gap to the future.