The Fall of the Golden State Warriors

The Golden State Warriors Have Revolutionized Basketball

Team executives saw the 3-point line as a market inefficiency and unleashed Stephen Curry to exploit it

By Ben Cohen (Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2016)
A "MARKET INEFFICIENCY!" Ho-Ho-Ho-Ho-Ho.

How did "team executives" convince professional pencils in other fields to buy this snake oil?  For the Journal it was savvy exploitation of a "market inefficiency;" for The New Yorker it was brain zapping technology. Two and a half months after "Ben" "Cohen" wrote that article came The Fall of the Golden State Warriors. And the "revolution" was dead. Ho-Ho-Ho-Ho-Ho.