Warriors center Andrew Bogut has had the most complicated road to recovery the NBA has seen since Greg Oden. This week brought more bad news and a revelation that the Warriors did not disclose the true nature of a surgery he underwent in April. The San Francisco Chronicle reported this week that Bogut underwent microfracture surgery on his left ankle earlier this year, even though the Warriors initially said the surgery was a minor arthroscopic procedure. http://nba.si.com/2012/11/29/andrew-bogut-ankle-injury-microfracture-surgery-golden-state-warriors/
The trade was March 13. The surgery was April 27. Warrior management lied that it wasn't microfracture surgery until the paper figured it out 7 months later. Astounding. How did management expect to keep it a secret? Was the motive to sell tickets? Or to try to trade him to a sucker team? Did the Bucks delay surgery until they could trade him to the Warriors? Who played whom, and why?
I think it was a combination of two things. One being selling tickets like you say here. The other is that massive portion of the fanbase was furious that we traded Monta for Bogut and this culminated in a tremendously awkward Lacob boo-fest at the Mullin jersey retirement ceremony last season. Much of this was simply that moronic GS fans believed Monta was a real star while Bogut was an average starting level center, but they were also pissed that we traded Monta for a player who was done for the year, effectively giving up on the season all together. Lacob and the front office's vision was that Monta was taking us nowhere and we needed a good big long term. The only way we could have ever pulled Monta for Bogut was if Bogut was injured. Did the Bucks hide that he was damaged goods? Did the Warriors know and pull the trigger anyway? Who knows. But revealing the microfracture would have given credit to the dumbasses crying for Monta and made Lacob and co. look like dumbasses. On the surface these fans are probably thinking they were right all along at this point. However GS is 9-6 thus far and this is largely because they're top 5 in rebounding and top 5 in defense. That trade ended up allowing us to get Harrison Barnes and Ezeli (he was picked with the pick from the Spurs when we swapped Stephen Jackson for RJ). Its a damn shame about Bogut's health and the front office cover up but I still make that trade all day.
I was going to say that they should have at least let the secret quietly seep out during the summer, when they could control the timing, but you've convinced me that it came out when it would produce the least bad public relations, right when their winning percentage is peaking.
