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Hey, as one well-connected source theorized, with San Francisco losing the 49ers soon, there is some increased motivation for the politicians to make life easier than normal for incoming sports developments. However… That other SF option–the AT&T Park/Mission Bay Project controlled by the Giants–is still there, and still further along with the permits and development than anything else. San Jose Mercury-News

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Warriors co-owners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber said their driving motivation is to build an arena that would help them establish a winning basketball team. Yet they fully understand that the Bay Area, unlike other sports-mad regions, is unwilling to dip into public treasuries or raise special taxes to subsidize such a venue. They are counting on the appeal of the San Francisco site to make the project work. "This is a gamble," Lacob said. "This is a risk of large proportions." The city's contribution will be relatively modest. Lee said the team would receive a "very friendly" long-term lease for the piers on which the arena will be built. Those piers, just south of the Bay Bridge and owned by the Port of San Francisco, have become so unstable that they have been deemed unfit for uses more intensive than their current role as a parking lot. San Francisco Chronicle

Golden State Warriors, Joe Lacob, San Francisco 

The owners apparently have come to see the NBA's free-agency market as something of a real-estate game. Because the league's salary cap allows little variation in how much a premier player can earn on any team, a star might be more easily swayed by location, location, location. "We went through a year of negotiations in free agency and we whiffed," Lacob said at a Monday meeting with Chronicle reporters and editors, in advance of Tuesday's news conference announcing the Warriors' plans for a waterfront arena near the Giants' ballpark. "It does appear that it matters to major free agents where they play." Guber, via conference call, added: "The scarcest resource is the talent. If there is a not a world-class venue, that is a factor." San Francisco Chronicle

Golden State Warriors, Joe Lacob, San Francisco 

Warriors owners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber, who have owned the team for 18 months, have made no secret of their desire to move to San Francisco. The team has held three major press conferences in San Francisco and neither has denied interest in relocation from Oakland. The plan would be to build a state-of-the-art arena at Piers 30-32, currently being unused at the time. The goal would be to move into the building by the start of the 2017-18 season. The press conference is expected to be held at this site. CSNBayArea.com

Golden State Warriors, Joe Lacob, Owners, Peter Guber 

Following up a report from the Merc’s Warriors fan blogger, Adam Lauridsen… I asked Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob if the team has decided that the Piers 30-32 site in San Francisco will be their home starting in 2015. Lacob’s answer, via email: “We are not prepared to make any announcements at this time,” Lacob said. Not exactly a stirring denial of Lauridsen’s report, and you can bet Lacob knows it isn’t close to a denial. San Jose Mercury-News

Golden State Warriors, Joe Lacob, San Francisco 

The Golden State Warriors are close to making a deal to move to San Francisco, a source told ESPN the Magazine's Ric Bucher on Sunday. The team wants to make the move and is committed to making it happen, the source said. San Francisco mayor Ed Lee sent a letter Friday saying the city would work with Warriors executives to bring the team to San Francisco in time for the 2017-18 season. ESPN.com

Golden State Warriors, Joe Lacob, San Francisco 

The new committee was hand-picked by Stern and consists of two owners, four GMs and three coaches. When they come up with rules changes, those will go directly to the 30 owners for their consideration and vote. The members are: owners Dan Gilbert (Cleveland) and Joe Lacob (Golden State); GMs Bryan Colangelo (Toronto), Mitch Kupchak (Lakers), Kevin O’Connor (Utah) and Sam Presti (Oklahoma City); and coaches Rick Carlisle (Dallas), Lionel Hollins (Memphis) and Doc Rivers (Boston). New York Daily News

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Jonathan Givony: NBA owners (Joe Lacob), coaches (Carlisle, L. Frank) GMs and execs (too many to count) here at the #NetsCombine. Big time opportunity. Twitter

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The NBA on Wednesday announced the members of the league’s new competition committee, including Utah Jazz general manager Kevin O’Connor. The announcement follows a decision by the league’s board of governors last month to change the committee’s composition. The committee will now include two owners, four general managers, three head coaches and one representative from the NBA Players Association. Joining O’Connor are fellow GMs Bryan Colangelo (Toronto Raptors), Mitch Kupchak (L.A. Lakers) and Sam Presti (Oklahoma City); owners Dan Gilbert (Cleveland Cavaliers) and Joe Lacob (Golden State); and coaches Rick Carlisle (Dallas Mavericks), Lionel Hollins (Memphis Grizzlies), and Doc Rivers (Boston Celtics). Salt Lake Tribune

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Golden State Warriors owners Peter Guber and Joe Lacob were spotted grinning and chatting in Civic Center Plaza on Tuesday, the latter even munching on lunch. Asked why they were visiting San Francisco, a jovial Lacob quipped, "For the hot dogs." San Francisco Chronicle

Golden State Warriors, Joe Lacob, Peter Guber 

They met with Mayor Ed Lee to further discuss moving the basketball team to San Francisco to play in an arena at Piers 30-32. Lee has traveled to Los Angeles to meet with Guber and make his case and sent a letter Friday signed by all 11 members of the Board of Supervisors in attempt to lure the Warriors here from Oakland for the 2017 season. San Francisco Chronicle

Golden State Warriors, Joe Lacob, Peter Guber 

It's too early to call the arena a slam dunk, but it's safe to say the mayor and the Warriors are playing for the same team. And wouldn't it be ironic if the 5-foot-5-inch Lee was the mayor to secure a professional basketball team? San Francisco Chronicle

Golden State Warriors, Joe Lacob, Peter Guber 

San Francisco has stepped up its campaign to lure the Golden State Warriors, potentially complicating Oakland's effort to turn the Coliseum area into a sports and entertainment megaplex with new facilities for its three professional teams. In a Friday meeting with team owner Joe Lacob, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee presented a letter signed by city supervisors, business leaders and state representatives, pitching the San Francisco waterfront as a "spectacular opportunity for a state-of-the-art sports and entertainment facility." Contra Costa Times

Golden State Warriors, Joe Lacob 

It was a hire that came without a press conference or press release, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t intriguing. Back in March, Warriors owner Joe Lacob and his ownership group made another outside-the-box hire, something they’ve certainly not shied away from over the past two years. On March 1, the Warriors hired attorney David Kelly as a Warriors’ vice president and general counsel. Kelly had been a partner at the law firm of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, where he had worked for almost eight years. He did transactional work for sports teams there, including putting together sponsorship deals with the Bulls and White Sox. CSNBayArea.com

Golden State Warriors, Joe Lacob 

The Warriors went 5-18 after Golden State owner Joe Lacob publicly talked about wanting to keep the first-round pick on Bay Area radio station KNBR, saying on March 20, "We think we can get our pick back." According to the Contra Costa Times, the owner reportedly claimed the Warriors and Jazz had discussed options as to how Golden State could retain its pick. In March, Jazz general manager Kevin O'Connor gave a "no comment" about that report. This week, he didn't want to delve into the Warriors' late-season slide that made Friday's tiebreaker possible. "It's none of my business what they do," O'Connor said. "I've got absolutely no control over that. Zero." Deseret News

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That the Warriors replaced general manager Larry Riley with protege Bob Myers comes as no shock. The big surprise is the timing. Why now? According to multiple team sources, a few factors came into play. The coming draft, and all the ensuing prep work. The pending free agent season, which kicks off July 1, and the Warriors’ need to woo someone though armed with nothing more than a mid-level. Contra Costa Times

Golden State Warriors, Larry Riley, Joe Lacob, Bob Myers 

But perhaps the biggest factor, per the sources, was Myers’ as assistant general manager. It was part of the plan for Myers to succeed Riley when they lured Myers from the player agent side of the business a year ago this month. But at the time, co-owner Joe Lacob said Myers was in line for the job after Riley retired “in a few years.” Contra Costa Times

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It’s been 12 months. In that time, Myers, according to sources, has proved to Lacob he is ready now. Lacob is impressed with Myers’ connections around the league, his negotiation skills and the relationships he’s built in the organization. Contra Costa Times

Golden State Warriors, Larry Riley, Joe Lacob, Bob Myers 

Lacob, Riley and Myers sat down and discussed the transition. According to one source, Riley wanted to see through what he started. But the source said Riley understood the move and was grateful the Warriors kept him around. Contra Costa Times

Golden State Warriors, Larry Riley, Joe Lacob, Bob Myers 

Q: Joe, why make the move now? -LACOB: You come towardss the end of the year, you start to reflect and you say, ‘OK, where are we? What are we going to be going forward?’ And it just became apparent to me and the others that I confide in that Bob was ready to do the job. I didn’t know, we didn’t know when we hired Bob. You never know for sure… until you’ve worked with someone, you never really know. Working with Bob, he’s outstanding. He has all the capabilities to do this and be really, really good at it. We just decided that rather than wait another year or two, which was sort of the original plan, we were going to go ahead and make the move now and give Bob the opportunity to continue to prove himself and give him the authority he needs to go forward and do the job. San Jose Mercury-News

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