Chris Cohan, the Warriors’ owner from 1995 to 2009, molded the Warriors into the laughing stalk of the NBA. During his tenure as owner of the team, the Warriors had two winning seasons and only one playoff appearance. He shunned the loyal fans that refused to shun his team, taking advantage of their loyalty by spending the minimum amount to maximize his profit. He wasn’t willing to risk spending money to put together a front office qualified enough to assemble a winning team. In 2007 the Warriors did make the playoffs, but that wasn’t due to Cohan’s efforts. Chris Mullin, a former Warriors player, was the general manager at the time, a position he had never held before, so he came cheap. He put made some genius moves to put together that winning team, after struggling in that position for the years prior with the team. But after the short success, he was fired due to Cohan’s misguided loyalty to another member of the front office with a conflicting philosophy. Cohan’s lack of effort to put a winning team together was a slap in the face to the most loyal fans, maybe in all of sports.

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