Despite the middling success of the Golden State Warriors over the past three seasons, the truth of the matter is that we are still talking about a team that has only made the playoffs once in the past fifteen years.  That is not just a bad record, but an amazingly bad record, especially when considering the NBA, like the NHL, basically lets everyone into the playoffs. The reality is that the Warriors aren't just your run-of-the-mill bad franchise but competing with other bad franchises as being the worst franchise in sports.  We’re talking Pittsburgh Pirates bad.  We're talking LA Clippers bad.  We're even talking…gulp…Oakland Raiders bad.

In discussing the latest front-office shakeup, fingers have been pointing this way and that way but ultimately, the finger has to be pointed at the Man in Charge, one Chris Cohan, the Owner of the team for the past fifteen years. In fact, the Warriors were actually a playoff contender when he took over but stopped being so the moment he did so.  The question that should be asked then, is why is Cohan such a God-awful Owner?

It’s hard to pinpoint the exact reason because unlike most really bad owners, it's not so obvious why he is.  Cohan isn't dead like Al Davis or super-cheap like the Brown family in Cincinnati.  Nor is he an ego-maniac who thinks he knows better than anyone on how to run a team like Peter Angelos of the Orioles or flamboyantly incompetent like Mike Dolan of the Knicks or Donald Sterling of the Clippers.  Cohan pretty much stays in the background, letting the people chosen to run the team do just that-- run the team.  According to "Owning Sports Teams for Dummies" this is Rule #2 in how to be an owner, just below "Hiring the Right People." And therein lies the rub-- it’s apparent that Cohan’s problem is that he is spectacularly bad at hiring people or backing the right people (as is the case with Mullin).  His incompetence is just sheer, plain, run-of-the-mill incompetence.  It's a boring sort of incompetence and this makes his incompetence even more incompetent in that if you’re going to fail, better fail at it in spectacular fashion.  Say what you will about the Knicks, Bengals, Lions, Clippers, and cross-sidewalk rivals the Raiders, they're particular brand of failure is never boring.  Better to be a loser and fun than a loser and boring.  At least those teams have an excuse as to why they suck.  The Warriors have none