There’s a long-range target. Of course, there’s a top player they’ve targeted. The Warriors always have a target, and it’s usually one of the biggest names in the league.



I mean, why bother spending years maneuvering and planning if it’s not for a future Hall of Famer? And how can you even contemplate adding a future Hall of Famer if you don’t do the long ground work it takes to make it possible?



That’s how Warriors management lives, thinks and operates — it doesn’t matter how well the team is going now, how many titles the Warriors have won, how many superstars they’ve got on the roster or, really, how many different layers and salary-cap complications they’d have to decipher on their way to this.



The Joe Lacob/Bob Myers Warriors always have a mega target in mind, loosely timed to a future date, projected onto their whiteboards and roster imaginings. They don’t bet everything on getting...