{"id":145508,"date":"2025-08-14T16:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/145508\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T16:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:24:10","slug":"kent-lacob-aiming-to-make-his-own-way-after-warriors-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/145508\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Lacob aiming to \u2018make his own way\u2019 after Warriors exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">Warriors Exec Dir of Team Development <b>KENT LACOB<\/b> is adamant that his resigning from his role just before the NBA Draft in June \u201cisn\u2019t rooted in family drama,\u201d according to Marcus Thompson II of THE ATHLETIC. Lacob assures that it is \u201cthe opposite.\u201d But what was \u201ctugging at his core\u201d was \u201calways competing with the privilege\u201d of being the son of team owner <b>JOE LACOB<\/b>. Kent \u201ccouldn\u2019t live with himself if he didn\u2019t even try to make his own way,\u201d wanting to \u201cattempt to exist, professionally, outside of Joe Lacob\u2019s world.\u201d Kent: \u201cI\u2019m very curious about what else, what other type of perspective I can gain from stepping outside of that.\u201d Kent knows the ability to walk away from an NBA front-office job, with \u201cnothing lined up, is a prime example of said privilege.\u201d But the decision to leave has been \u201cbrewing over the years.\u201d Kent \u201cremains coy about his next move.\u201d His \u201cstated plan: Be open and free, see what the universe throws his way &#8212; instead of jumping into the next thing.\u201d However, Kent said that it \u201cwon\u2019t be another franchise\u201d and he \u201ccan\u2019t see landing in a corporate setting\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6548292\/2025\/08\/13\/kent-lacob-warriors-vp-leaving\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE ATHLETIC, 8\/13<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warriors Exec Dir of Team Development KENT LACOB is adamant that his resigning from his role just before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3457,1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-145508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-leadership","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115028050908236492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}