Reasons Emerge Why Warriors' Dynasty Architect Bob Myers Could Leave This Offseason

The Golden State Warriors have built an improbable dynasty seemingly out of nowhere and the most ardent Warriors fans have general manager Bob Myers to thank for their success.

Joining the Warriors as an assistant general manager in April 2011, Myers was promoted to his current post just a year later and drafted what would turn out to be their championship core of Harrison Barnes, Festus Ezeli, Draymond Green to complement an emerging Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson.

However, there is growing concern that Myers could look for greener pastures elsewhere when his contract ends in July.

The Athletic put out a joint report from Anthony Slater, Marcus Thompson II and Sam Amick about the future of Myers and there is belief that he could be on a different team come the next offseason.

"According to sources close to the situation, Washington, Phoenix, and New York are all worth monitoring as possibilities. Meanwhile, the recent focus in front office circles, where Myers' situation has become a hot topic, is on the Clippers," the report read.

They noted that Myers' history in the Los Angeles area dating back to his college basketball career with UCLA, his law degree from Loyola Law School and his 14-year career as a player agent with Wasserman Media Group could convince him to return to the city.

But according to other sources that they spoke with, he might not even stay in the NBA after all and instead take his talents outside of basketball as he searches for a new challenge.

It would be part of human nature to wonder why someone like Myers, who engineered the Warriors' improbable turnaround into one of the most vaunted sports dynasties, would leave Golden State.

Apparently, a large chunk of it comes down to a conversation of financial compensation.

"According to several people with ballpark knowledge of executive salaries around the league, Myers falls somewhere in the range of either sixth, seventh or eighth on the base salary totem pole," they wrote and later added that Myers had earned an undisclosed incentive for their 2022 NBA title.

Leaving the Warriors would be unthinkable to the normal human being since running an NBA team and guiding it to at least one championship is going to motivate them to go for even more titles.

However, what fans forget to think of is that the grind of going for multiple titles takes its toll on someone and part of the balancing act is dealing with both public and private issues like managing players' and stakeholders' expectations.

Myers may be growing tired of the surely Herculean task of being the face of the Warriors in both good and bad times.

He is as integral to their success as Stephen Curry as the pair is synonymous with the Warriors' success, best exemplified in the very first episode of Myers' "Lead by Example" podcast on ESPN.

For now, though, it is a storyline that Warriors fans will need to carefully monitor moving forward since losing Myers could be the catalyst that leads to drastic changes across the roster.