We all expected the Warriors to perform at a high level this year, but they’ve exceeded the expectations of many. They have the best record in the West and seem likely to make a deep run.
Because the core is so young, it stands to reason that management would want to keep these guys together. In order to do that, they may need to pay the luxury tax by going over the $80.7 million threshold next season. Owner Joe Lacob is fine with this. Winning a championship will certainly make that decision easier.
Are you prepared to go into the tax next summer to keep this team together?
-LACOB: Committed or not committed, I don’t think we have any other choice. Numbers would dictate–anyone can look at them–that we’re very likely in the luxury tax and very likely very substantially, next year.
And you know what? We’re OK with that. I tell Bob all the time; he keeps asking me, ‘Are you sure?’ We’re prepared to do whatever it takes to win a championship; I’ve said that before.
You want to do it when the timing is right. Maybe the timing’s right, right? We’re pretty good. And so, I think we need to take advantage of that and go for it.
H/T: Mercury News
