How Steph would emulate Warriors’ Lacob, Guber if he owns NBA workforce

How Steph would emulate Warriors’ Lacob, Guber if he owns NBA workforce initially appeared on NBC Sports activities Bay Space

Steph Curry is a busy man.

He already has loads occurring as a participant, coming into his sixteenth season with the Warriors, however he additionally has a number of pursuits and ambitions off the courtroom, similar to his notably profitable golf sport, his large Underneath Armour partnership, and his current foray into tv and movie.

That is not all. Curry instructed NBC Sports activities Bay Space final yr that he’d ultimately wish to personal an NBA workforce after he retires as a participant, and he additional voiced that enthusiasm Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Road.”

“I’ve seen [Michael] Jordan do it,” Curry stated of the NBA legend, who was the Charlotte Bobcats/Hornets’ majority proprietor for 13 years. “You’ve gotten guys within the league now which are taking the mandatory steps to be respectable gamers on the subject of the [NBA] probably increasing in a pair years.

“So, for me, that is undoubtedly on the desk.”

So, what would Steph Curry, the proprietor, be like? His mindset seems to be a product of his enjoying setting underneath Warriors homeowners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber.

“I believe I might do a reasonably good job of serving to maintain how nice the NBA is correct now and the issues that I’ve realized over my profession and what it takes to run a championship group,” Curry stated. “The Lacob and Guber household … you see the way you deal with the gamers top notch and the funding it takes to create that first-class expertise so we really feel taken care of, and that enables us to hoop at a really excessive degree.”

Curry additionally acknowledged the significance of supporting not solely the group’s gamers but additionally the encompassing neighborhood.

“Oakland and San Francisco is my adopted residence,” Curry stated. “I have been on the market for 16 years. You must be genuine to the neighborhood as nicely, and the fan base that you just characterize that fills the seats.

“Creating that connection is as vital as placing the ball within the basket. You may’t have one with out the opposite.”

Warriors followers need not fret, although. Curry is not speeding to wrap up his enjoying profession to grow to be a workforce proprietor.

“Clearly, I do know that I’ve much more left to perform on the courtroom earlier than I transfer into some other position throughout the league,” Curry added. “However I undoubtedly need to be part of the possession panorama.”

It is fairly secure to say if Curry is wherever close to nearly as good of an proprietor as he’s a participant, he’ll be fairly profitable in that enterprise, too.

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