OAKLAND — Joe Lacob and Draymond Green are clear about this, even clearer than they usually are, and these are two guys who find it practically impossible to hide their truest, rawest emotions, anyway.

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Here’s the Warriors’ minicamp roster and where each player stands Lacob, the owner of the Warriors, and Draymond Green, the team’s starting power forward and centrifugal emotional force, might be the two most similarly-wired members of this franchise, and together they’re the team’s thrumming competitive engine.

They know this. They understand it about each other and themselves. And it’s a large part of who the Warriors have been, are, and will continue to be, as they get set for Game 1 of the NBA Finals — and the advent of their third consecutive ultimate meeting with Cleveland — on Thursday.

On this multi-layered team, general manager Bob Myers and coach Steve Kerr are the thoughtful, mindful architects; Stephen Curry and Andre Iguodala are the calm locker-room authorities and counselors; Kevin Durant is the new and vital ingredient.

And Green and Lacob are the Warriors’ heart-on-sleeve litigators, instigators and full-throttle fire-starters.

Which is why, now, a year after Green’s series-turning suspension in Game 5 of the Finals against Cleveland, Lacob doesn’t hesitate to maintain his 100-percent support of Green’s actions back then.

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“It never even crossed my mind to be mad at him,” Lacob said last week of Green’s flick at LeBron James in Game 4 last year that earned him his fourth Flagrant Foul point and an automatic one-game suspension.

“He’s a tremendous competitor. I just love the guy. He’s just a fantastic competitor, plays so hard, just a great smart player and I support him.”

The Warriors, of course, were up 3-1 in the series before Green was suspended, then lost Game 5 at Oracle Arena with Green watching with Myers from a suite at the Coliseum next-door, and lost Games 6 and 7 with Green back in action.

As a tribute to Green, Lacob famously wore Green’s jersey while sitting courtside during Game 5… a gesture that this year was copied by Wizards owner Ted Leonsis when forward Kelly Oubre was serving a playoff suspension.

“I didn’t really think about it at the time, just was obvious I should do that,” Lacob said of donning Green’s jersey at such a controversial time.

Green and Lacob were close before that game–often texting each other motivational messages and sharing the bond of two people whose lives started out far from where they are now.

But that game, and the rumbling aftermath, absolutely tied Green and Lacob, and also Green and Myers, together in a profound way.

You want to know why Warriors management supports Green through the occasional bump and controversy? Because they know he fights for them on the court, with everything he has, and because Lacob and Myers understand and depend on that.

“To get suspended from Game 5 and Joe wears my jersey? How many owners are doing that?” Green said. “That goes a long way.

“To be suspended, go next door, (Myers) comes sits with me the entire game? That stuff goes a long way.

“But our relationship has definitely evolved over the years. No. 1, you figure out how similar personalities you have and you identify more and more with each other.”

Lacob is still bothered by the circumstances and timing of Green’s suspension and–very Draymond-like–isn’t bashful about saying so.

Most especially Lacob points out that Green was not called for a foul when he tapped James’ groin late in Game 4, but was retroactively given a Flagrant-1 by league discipline czar Kiki Vandeweghe when everybody knew that one more point would trigger the suspension.

“I certainly was not happy about him being assessed a flagrant foul by the league after the fact, a day after he was not even assessed a common foul by the referees on the floor,” Lacob said.

“I have a problem with that. And the league knows that. And I did and I still do. I don’t agree with that particular rule or ability for the league to do that.”

In the moments after clinching the West finals over San Antonio, Lacob said he thought the Warriors were the better team in last year’s Finals. Does Lacob think the Warriors lost the series because of the suspension?

“Well, I’d rather not go there,” Lacob said. “Certainly it contributed, it enabled to happen what did happen. But the Cavaliers certainly deserved to win the series.

“I never meant to imply otherwise. They came back from 3-1, all credit to them and they are the champions.”

But you wanted the Cavaliers…

“What I said… I didn’t really care who we played truthfully just wanted to get there, for the opportunity to win a championship,” said Lacob, noting that he previously was a minority owner of the Celtics and would’ve had interest in playing the Celtics in these Finals, too.

“And I really don’t want to speak for our players or anybody else, or coaches, just me personally, I guess I slightly would’ve preferred playing the Cavaliers only because I feel we lost to them last year and I personally feel like it’d be nice to have the opportunity to get it back from them.”

Lacob’s son, Kirk, a Warriors assistant GM, jokingly calls his father “the Draymond” of team management, and Joe Lacob considers that a large compliment.

Competitive. Edgy. Demanding. Occasionally misunderstood. Maybe sometimes a little annoying.

Yeah, Draymond gets all of that.

“My relationship with Joe is great,” Green said. “You know, obviously it’s evolved over the years. I think we’ve got that same kind of fire, same type of passion.

“Bob’s the same way–Bob just is not as outspoken as Joe and I, but he’s the same way. Just that same type of burning desire to be the best, to win every game, to be right on every single play.

“Joe and I are a lot more outspoken than Bob, but when you really to know him, he’s the exact same way.”

Green is the kid from Saginaw, Mich., who worked his way to become a star at Michigan State then Green’s raw athletic skills didn’t measure with many in his draft class, so he slipped to the 35th overall pick of the 2012 draft. The Warriors are very thankful of that.

Lacob was a middle-class kid who built his fortune taking some great risks in the venture capital world, won the bidding to the Warriors right from under Larry Ellison, and declared immediately that the Warriors would win titles, when they were, at the time, one of the worst franchises in sports.

“In my case, I’m not the most athletic player, I don’t have the greatest jump shot,” Green said. “I don’t have the greatest ball-handling. Like I don’t have Steph’s jumpshot or KD’s length and athleticism and ability to score or Steph and Kyrie (Irving)’s handle or Steph and Klay (Thompson)’s jumpshot.

“I don’t have those things. But a part of what’s made me good is my desire, just my burning desire to win and to be great.

“And when you look at that with Joe, not to say Joe’s not smart, he’s very smart. But mores o than his smarts what has gotten him over the edge is his burning desire to be great, and so his burning desire to be great at everything he’s done is what’s gotten him over the top.

“There’s a lot of smart people. He’s smart. But that’s what not got him over the top — it’s being smart plus having the desire that not many other people have.”

Green sees that in Lacob, Lacob sees that in Green, and if you’re looking for either man to critique the other for a rabid competitive streak, you will be waiting a long, long time.