Joe Lacob takes a stab at Donald Sterling for being cheap, calls out Keith Smart for not playing Jeremy Lin last year

"We knew to get him as a restricted free agent we'd have to load up that contract as much as we possibly could, so short of amnestying Andris Biedrins [the Warriors' underperforming center who is owed a combined $27 million over the next three seasons] -- which I know people criticize us for, but we still stand by that decision -- we wanted to do everything we could and we did," Lacob said. "We went to DeAndre with what most people would say was a contract that overpaid him, recognizing that you had to do that. We had good reason to believe, knowing that [Warriors assistant general manager] Bob Myers was [Jordan's] agent before, that there was a chance that they wouldn't match because, of course, that's Donald Sterling's history."

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"I was criticized, and we were criticized, a lot last year for not having a quote-unquote, backup point guard, on the roster," said Lacob, who hired current coach Mark Jackson rather than re-sign Smart in the offseason. "Jeremy Lin was the backup point guard, and then we brought in Acie Law and [Smart] didn't play Jeremy but played Acie Law, which I thought was not great. That was something he and I disagreed on.