Warriors Sold: Iron Man Sheds Iron Tears
Finally.
July 15th, 2010 is a day that will live in…what’s the opposite of infamy? Famy? Awesomeness? Whatever it is, this day will live in that. Christoper J. Cohan sold the Warriors today, for the nifty lil sum of $460 million, which I think is also what Erick Dampier has made in his career.
The surprising thing is who he sold the team to. The media money was on Oracle mainest man and Iron Man 2 co-star Larry Ellison but it turns out the smart money was on two people you probably haven’t heard of if you’re not in the venture capital business or the movie business: Joseph Lacob and Peter Guber.
Jacob is a Bay Area guy, a Silicon Valley heavyweight and a longtime Warrior season ticket holder. So far, so good. He’s also been a minority owner of the Celtics, so he should have some knowledge as to how successful NBA teams are managed.
With a name like Guber Guber was destined by the 3rd grade for either great in-your-face success or a string of grisly homicides up and down the central valley. Growing up and producing the movie Tango and Cash and buying the Oakland Warriors is obviously some sweet, sweet success. Everyone who laughed at his name in grade school can now suck it.
In their first interviews the new owners said all the right things—they want to and know how to build a winner and that’s what the great and long-suffering Warrior fans deserve. They also took a parting shot at Cohan and his lil buddy Bobby Rowell by saying it really couldn’t get much worse. While all Warrior fans appreciated this quality cheap shot, all Warrior fans also know that it can always get worse.
But none of that matters now. The long, local nightmare of the Chris Cohan era is over. I was hoping Larry Ellison would buy the team and I would have settled for Bruce Jenner and Kris Kardashian. Lacob and Guber are fine. I really have no opinion on them one way or another. All I know is that they are not Chris Cohan, who I would seriously consider knifing in the kidney if I saw him leaving his house in Pacific Heights and I thought I could outrun the cops. No matter what happens next, congratulations are in order. We made it.

