Joe Lacob isn’t the guy for slightly diminished expectations, grappling with a dynasty’s mortality or otherwise casting somber tones upon any situation involving his team, even when the Warriors have the worst record in the league.



He and Peter Guber bought the Warriors when they were terrible, blithely promised championships, delivered three of them and weren’t exactly demure about any of it.



So it was no surprise at all that Lacob seemed extra buoyant in a Chase Center hallway Saturday night, several days after the Warriors reshuffled the deck again, trading D’Angelo Russell to Minnesota for Andrew Wiggins and two draft picks and dropping below the luxury tax along the way.



The Warriors lost an entertaining game to the Lakers, Wiggins looked solid in his Warriors debut, his new teammates played with energy, and Lacob was ready to argue against anybody criticizing the Warriors for trading Russell only six months after acquiring him...