Here is the beginning of my Thursday column about the Warriors and their draft choice:
The Warriors got to keep their first-round draft pick.
Savor that thought.
The NBA held its draft lottery on Wednesday — the lottery is as complicated and arcane as the Electoral College, I’m just saying. In the past when they made those pingpong balls start jumping and hopping, the balls would have come up wrong for the Warriors and the Warriors would have lost their pick to Utah — you know how that worked, right? — and some member of the Warriors staff would have sat there stiff and lifeless on television looking terminally depressed.
Watching that scene, you would have been reminded, yet again, this franchise is cursed.
But no one looked crushed.
To read the rest of my column, please click here.
Mugsy
Good column, but I’ll quibble with one point: even though you tempered it, Lacob is in no way a “legitimate basketball mind.”
He THINKS he is, and that’s what is scary. He is not a legitimate basketball mind. He is a clown. He should pull a Jed York and get out of the way and let real basketball people make the decisions. The Logo must laugh inside every time Lacob suggests something to him, since Lacob’s only job w/regard to the front office should be to ask the Logo if he takes his coffee with cream and sugar. Lacob should focus instead on trying to get his pipe-dream of a stadium built in SF.
May 30th, 2012 11:08 pm
Lo Sbandato
Really, Lowell? Your analysis is worse than Lacob’s moronic public statements. So they got to keep “their” pick. It’s the 7th pick, or one pick worse than Epke Udoh (and four worse than the legendary Mke Dunleavy), in a mostly average draft. Of all the supposed “brains”, only one has any real history of draft success, and that’s West (on a side note, when did Larry Riley suddenly transform into a basketball expert?).
Serious, this “victory” is like hitting a jackpot on penny slots that means you break even rather than go home down $200. Given the W’s draft history, they should be trading down.
June 1st, 2012 4:20 pm
Albert Park
Lowell, what is a “3″ in basketball terminology?
June 2nd, 2012 4:55 pm
CohnZohn
The 3 is the small forward.
June 2nd, 2012 5:32 pm