We traveled to Palo Alto — Joe Lacob’s home turf — for this conversation, and he showed up at the conference room we booked at the Simpson Thacher law firm by himself, no entourage in tow.

What followed was a good, relaxed, interesting podcast episode, going from his thoughts about this Warriors season to Kevin Durant’s rise to the team’s future salary structure to how he’s viewed by other owners and thoughts about potentially making another big transaction this summer.

We also talked about the team being known as a social and political thought-leader, from Steve Kerr to Stephen Curry, and about Curry’s value to the franchise.

I also asked Lacob if he might ever run for president. I surprised him with that one.

One more topic: I asked Lacob if he was still interested in buying the A’s and what his thoughts were when the team’s plans for the Laney College site pretty much blew up.

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