This time, Joe Lacob was summoned to Larry Riley’s office.



In the office of the then-Warriors general manager was the basketball operations staff — Jerry West, then an executive board member and the front office’s resident basketball genius, Bob Myers, the general manager-in-training, then-assistant GM Travis Schlenk and Kirk Lacob, the prodigy assistant and owner’s eldest son.



Back in March 2012, all of those in the room had already unanimously decided to make the move. They needed the boss to sign off. So they were there to tell the Warriors owner and CEO in no uncertain terms that he needed to green light this trade. He also remembers West telling him he would get killed for trading Monta Ellis.



In that meeting, Lacob had the epiphany. Even though he was injured at the time and still had a surgery ahead of him, Stephen Curry was the one. All of these basketball minds were certain.



“I remember Kirk, my son,...