Andre Iguoadala apparently knew the grass was greener before ever playing a game in a Warriors.
In what may turn into a tampering charge for the Warrior, the teams co-owner, Joe Lacob revealed during an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle that the Warriors and Iguodala spent the better part of their of that thrilling 6 game series flirting with each other.
Iguoadala, who was still a nugget at the time, apparently was already selling himself to the Warriors.
How did you guys talk Andre Iguodala into signing here when you were capped out this summer?: “It’s interesting, during one of the playoff games in Denver, I was sitting on the floor. It turned out per chance, that one of his cousins was sitting behind us. We introduced and got to know him during the first game. When we came back for the second game, he made it pretty clear that Andre liked the Warriors, liked the organization. Obviously, I couldn’t talk about that at the time, but when he did become a free agent, I didn’t have to sell a lot. He was pretty sold. He sees how we do things, and the word gets out among the players. We get approached all of the time by agents with really big names who say, ‘Hey, when my guy’s contract is up, we’d really like to consider playing for the Warriors, because you’re building something the right way.’ We can’t talk to them, because it’s illegal, but you can see that we’re building something for the future, and people can sense that.”
I have to believe there was some initial talks between both parties before the moratorium began on July 1st, but we’ll never know.