Kent Lacob, son of Warriors owner Joe Lacob, is stepping down from the team’s front office after 10 years working for the organization.
The Warriors confirmed the news to the Bay Area News Group on Wednesday afternoon.
In an interview with The Athletic, which broke the story, Kent Lacob explained why he is leaving the team.
“Yeah, it’s very comfortable. And I’m incredibly fortunate to have this. Not by my own doing,” Lacob said. “But I have stepped into a world that just put me in this situation to have all this around me. I’m incredibly grateful for it. But I also don’t think that it necessarily gives me a fully robust perspective on life and what it is that I ultimately am going to want when I, like, reflect on what I did with my life.”
Kent, 32, is the third-youngest of Lacob’s children. He began his career in the NBA in 2015 as one of six members of the Warriors’ front office staff after playing college basketball at Washington University in St. Louis.
He started as the franchise’s coordinator of basketball operations, then became the general manager for the Warriors’ G-League affiliate in Santa Cruz. Lacob has spent the last two years as the Warriors’ vice president of basketball development.
He told The Athletic that he does not have immediate plans for what he is going to do next, but said that he is not interested in working for another NBA team, nor being in a “corporate setting.”
Per the Athletic, Kent Lacob resigned before the NBA Draft in June, with his father understanding his son’s desire to try to succeed outside of the family business.
“When you’re my kids,” Joe Lacob said, “you worry about the nepotism charges, and I understand it. I’ve been on the other side. I know what it’s like to look at the rich kid growing up with all of the advantages and whatever. So I understand why people say stuff like that. Now, I know my kids aren’t that way.”
Joe Lacob’s eldest son, Kirk, remains the franchise’s executive vice president of basketball operations.
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Warriors schedule news
In the group stage of the NBA Cup, Golden Sate will play at the Denver Nuggets on Nov. 7 and the San Antonio Spurs on Nov. 14, then will play host to the Portland Trail Blazers on Nov. 21 and Houston Rockets on Nov. 26, the team announced Wednesday.
If the Warriors are the top team in the group, or the Western Conference team with the best record that didn’t win a group, they will advance to tournament play starting on Dec. 9. The final will be played in Las Vegas on Dec. 16.
The full regular-season schedule is expected to be announced on Thursday.
