Before hiring Bob Myers as general manager of the Golden State Warriors, Joe Lacob also interviewed Danny Ferry and at least one other high-ranking executive.

Ferry had recently been fired as general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers and had not yet been hired by the Atlanta Hawks.

Lacob had met Myers previously after being introduced by Danny Ainge.

Larry Riley was acting as GM during the transition of ownership.

“I didn’t really like anybody I was meeting,” Lacob said. “And I kept thinking about Bob. But I thought it’d be too much risk. He wasn’t a GM, he had never worked in operations.

“That’s how I came up with the idea of coming in under Larry and at the time made a somewhat unpopular decision, like a lot of decisions I’ve made, which was to keep Larry.

“I made the decision to bring in Bob as the assistant GM and the deal with Bob was–and I had to convince him of this–let’s see how this goes, let’s get to know each other.”