Bob Myers is not pretending the job was ever simple.
The former Golden State Warriors general manager and president of basketball operations said on the Cousins Podcast with Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady that emotion never steered his decisions while he was running the team - but he also admitted that staying in Golden State longer could have changed that.
“It never did, but had I stayed in Golden State, it might have,” Bob Myers told Carter and McGrady. “Okay, like if I had to move off a clay, I might have had a hard time with that.
If, if I had been there, and like, I had to do something with Draymond or staff or something like that, that that would have been personal. Yeah.
Because of what we went through together. Guys like Iguodala Livingston guys that won multiple championships.
If I don't feel a part, then I what the hell was I do? If I don't have a relationship with those guys?
Now, there's not 10 of them.
“But there's a few guys where I would have a hard time, I think I'd still do the right thing for the organization. But it would be really hard to tell a guy like, all that that guy did for my life, my life, like personally, forget about the organization, like, which is what you're, you're, you're hired to do what's best for the organization when you're executive, but when you win, and win multiple championships with people that played and gave everything and and made my life changed my life, personally, not the organization's mine. How can I not let that affect you understand, like, so there would have been, could have been situations where it got there.”
Myers was with Golden State from 2012 to 2023, a stretch that covered the rise of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green into the core of a dynasty. The Warriors won three championships from 2015 to 2018 and then added a fourth NBA championship in 2022.
That run also made Myers one of the most trusted voices in the organization’s success, especially when it came to the biggest decisions. He said there were certain players he might have had a hard time moving off of, including Thompson, Green and even staff members tied to those championship years, while still believing he would have done what was best for the organization.
Bob Myers on if he ever let emotions interfere with his decision making as a GM:
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"It never did, but had I stayed in Golden State, it might've. Like if I had to move off of Klay, I might've had a hard time with that. If I had been there and had to do something with Draymond, or… pic.twitter.com/MHe0smJu7i
The Warriors have never traded Curry or Green, though Thompson was eventually dealt away. Even so, the expectation remains that all three will retire as members of the Golden State Warriors.
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