Bob Myers Biography
Bob Myers born Robert Michael Myers, is the president of basketball operations for the Golden State Warriors in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He is a former sports agent with Wasserman Media Group after interning with agent Arn Tellem. Myers played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins from 1993 to 1997.
He was a member of their 1995 NCAA championship team. He served as a radio commentator for UCLA basketball for two seasons until 2002.
Bob Myers Age
He was born on 31 March 1975 in Danville, California, United States. He is 43 years old as of 2018.
Bob Myers Family|Bob Myers Wife
He is the husband of Kristen Myers. Together, they have two children Kayla and Annabelle.
Bob Myers Warriors
In April 2011, Myers was hired by the Golden State Warriors as an assistant general manager. He was expected to apprentice under general manager Larry Riley for a few years.
However, Myers was promoted to general manager after only 12 months. Under Myers, the Warriors had a strong draft in 2012 and made key acquisitions in 2012–13, and they advanced to the second round of the playoffs before losing to the San Antonio Spurs in six games.
It was the Warriors’ best postseason finish in 36 years. After the season, The Press Democrat wrote that Myers “made a bigger imprint than anyone else on this season’s wonderful team.”
After the 2014-15 regular season, Myers was named the NBA Basketball Executive of the Year after key decisions he made led to the Warriors having an NBA best 67–15 record, including hiring coach Steve Kerr and signing Klay Thompson to a contract extension after declining to trade him and other players in the off-season for Kevin Love.
Myers and the Warriors won the 2015 NBA Finals after defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in six games. The Warriors came short of a back-to-back title in the 2015-16 season despite having an NBA-record 73-9 regular season, losing to the Cavaliers in seven games. Prior to 2016–17, the Warriors added president of basketball operations to Myers’ title, which reported directly to majority owner Joe Lacob.
Myers was again named NBA Executive of the Year after signing Kevin Durant, David West, Zaza Pachulia, and JaVale McGee in the 2016 off-season.
This was his second Executive of the Year Title in three years as the Warriors once again had a league-best 67-15 record. The Warriors won the 2017 NBA Finals after avenging their loss to the Cavaliers, this time in five games.
The title was the team’s second in three years, which included the league’s best postseason record of 16-1, and the best start to the postseason at 15-0.
The Warriors won a back-to-back title in the 2017-18 season after defeating the Cavaliers in four games in the 2018 NBA Finals.
Bob Myers Kevin Durant | Bob Myers Parade
The Golden State Warriors celebrated their third championship in four years on Tuesday afternoon, and, oh my goodness, their front office made horribly uncomfortable jokes with Kevin Durant.
He was hit with zing after zing about his upcoming contract, and, uh … he did not look OK about it!
David West and Shaun Livingston hinted about drama inside the Warriors’ locker room after they won Game 4 of the Finals, and maybe this has something to do with that.
The first hit came from Warriors general manager Bob Myers, who promised Durant whatever kind of extension the free-agent-to-be wanted after he won his second consecutive Finals MVP. He took that back in a joking way at the parade and it did not hit well.
Myers: That was just for the media he can’t have anything that he wants.
Coach Steve Kerr: Mid-level
Broadcaster Bob Fitzgerald: last year you told Steph he could have whatever contract he wants too.
Myers: That was different. He’s been here since the way before days … he’s earned it.
Fitzgerald: And there ended the Warriors’ cohesion right there.
Awkward!
Then Fitzgerald made things worse.
Fitzgerald: I’m gonna stand in front of KD … Before his Warriors exit, I want to enjoy as much time with him as possible.
Somebody, make it stop. We know how sensitive KD can be — hello, burners — and this couldn’t have helped. Durant already said before the parade he wanted to run things back with this team, so it’s pretty safe he won’t actually leave the Warriors, but these jokes felt uncomfortable still to say the absolute least.
He ended with a note on that.
The final time he was made fun of about the contract, Durant responded on the microphone, “Why was that even a discussion? Why we even talking about that? For sure, we going to do this thing again.”
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Bob Myers Warriors Salary
Having signed a contract extension with the Warriors till the 2017-2018 season ends, Bob will take home a cool $8 million in salary and bonuses by the end of the year.
Bob Myers Pillar Technology
Pillar Technology specializes in technologies that are going to be prevalent tomorrow. It helps build them today — things like autonomous vehicles, smart grids, artificial intelligence, drones and more.
“We’re doing Silicon Valley level work out of Columbus, Ohio,” says CEO Bob Myers. That includes building the operating system for Smart Columbus.
But the business and IT consulting firm, which generates more than $50 million in annual revenue, not only helps companies get new products into the marketplace, it also helps businesses transform into contemporary digital companies.
For example, the six-time Inc. 5000 winner helped Cardinal Health create its incubator, Fuse.
By thin slicing the organization and taking a portion out of the corporate environment, you build a creative environment, Myers says. Once one part of the organization changes and everyone sees the results, it builds momentum. You can start flipping the organization, piece by piece until it’s firmly in the 21st century.
However, Pillar often cannot discuss what it’s creating because of the proprietary nature of it. Myers says they code their projects and don’t even use the name of the company, like Pillar’s work for a very large automotive company, which it calls “panther.”
In August, Accenture, a $35 billion global professional services company, acquired Pillar. After the acquisition, Myers will continue to be responsible for Pillar’s business and also will lead Accenture Industry X.0’s smart products and embedded solutions practice.
‘Don’t try to boil the ocean’
Myers’ model has been to set up offices, under Pillar’s forge concept, in the Midwest for the 300-plus employees. However, the company also has an office in Palo Alto, California, two blocks from Stanford University.
“We call that a listening post,” he says. “What we do is we’re basically tapped into what’s happening in the Valley, but we actually pull the work into the Midwest and do it out of Iowa, or we do it out of Ann Arbor (Michigan) or Ohio.”
It’s not uncommon for Pillar to be hired to help with a piece of software that a company has been working on for years. Pillar gets it working, in some form, in a month or a quarter, because it only builds the features that are needed to solve the problem. Once it’s on the market, it tackles the next problem.
“When we release something, it does something completely and hopefully, very effectively,” Myers says. “We don’t try to boil the ocean.”
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Bob Myers Salary | Bob Myers Net Worth
His net worth has been placed between the corridors of $6 and $12 million by some online sources.
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As of 2018, he is alive and kicking and there are no reports of him suffering from any ailment nor engaged in any fatal accident.
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How Bob Myers’ tearful news conference brought every Kevin Durant emotion to the forefront
Bob Myers just sat there; his eyes watering, his chest heaving. The seconds ticked by. He was at the interview table, in front of the media, cameras glaring at him, silence awaiting him. When he began to speak, no words came out. His voice just kept catching on emotion.
He was overwrought. He was overwhelmed. He didn’t know where to start or what to say.
Just moments before, the Golden State Warriors dynasty he’d assembled as general manager had just delivered one of its greatest comebacks and greatest victories. The team rallied from down six in this cauldron of Canadian red Monday night, pushing back on the waves of noise and intensity and Kawhi Leonard to steal Game 5, 106-105, and stave off elimination. Game 6, with the Toronto Raptors leading the series 3-2, is Thursday in Oakland.
It should’ve been a night of triumph, proof that Golden State was as much grit and guile as splash and flash. And yet Myers was just torn up, a face full of questions and regret and pain.
“Kevin,” he finally said, delivering the news like an ER doctor saying the patient hadn’t made it.
“It’s an Achilles injury.”
Kevin Durant had tried to play Monday, returning from a lower right leg injury that had sidelined him since Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals. He tried to save the season, save the series, save the Golden State juggernaut that had won three of the past four NBA titles but appeared unable to handle the relentless Raptors.
He played 11:57, scored 11 points and grabbed two rebounds. Then he fell to the floor, crumpled in a heap, grabbing the back of his right leg. He looked frustrated and furious and, well, defeated.
He eventually got dragged to his feet, draped his arms over Myers and Andre Iguodala and hobbled to the locker room. Steph Curry jogged behind them, even though he was still in the game. The Raptors crowd, which initially, and unfortunately, cheered the injury, began serenading Durant with “KD” chants and gave him a standing ovation. Soon enough, Durant was leaving the building on crutches.
He looked as broken emotionally as he was physical.
Now here was Myers delivering the news. This wasn’t a strained calf. This wasn’t just a flare-up. This was bad. This was really bad. Maybe a year lost if it’s a torn Achilles. Maybe the best player on the planet losing a season of his prime. Maybe, well, who knows how many maybes there are?
Sometimes players return from injuries like these. Sometimes they are never quite the same.
For Myers, though, this wasn’t just the loss of a chess piece. This was more. He signed Durant three years ago and has felt protective of his star ever since. The signing was assailed by NBA fans, who saw Durant trying to cut the championship line, joining a 73-win team that had just defeated his Oklahoma City Thunder and adding another jewel to a roster no one else in basketball could compete with.
No matter what Durant did, there was heat and hate. He won two Finals MVPs, but it hardly mattered. There is no questioning his greatness on the court, but as free agency awaited this offseason, there remained a belief he still had something to prove and needed his own team, maybe the New York Knicks, to truly become an all-time great.
Durant, 30, is a sensitive guy. He’s prone to firing back on social media and barking at reporters. He allows the criticism of the few to overwhelm the cheers of the many.
Now he had shown his mettle by working to return, despite that looming free agency. Now he’d put it all on the line when his teammates needed him most. And now, well, now it had all just gotten so much worse.
“The initial injury was a calf injury,” Myers said. “This is not a calf injury.”
Did Durant come back too soon? The injury says yes, clearly, but that’s hard to predict. This is the balance of professional sports. Teams want their players to play, while players need to protect themselves.
Source: sports.yahoo.com
Warriors GM Bob Myers: ‘We Were Just Out Of Words, Out Of Emotions’
To say it was one of the toughest weeks in the life of Golden State Warriors General Manager Bob Myers would be a gross understatement.
On Friday, Myers was still trying to process all that has happened.
It began with Kevin Durant, coming back after missing nine straight playoff games with an injured calf, taking the court in a must-win Game 5 of the NBA Finals and playing 12 minutes of brilliant basketball. And then it happened. Durant crumpled to the court with a ruptured Achilles tendon.
In the aftermath, Myers broke down with emotions when talking to the media about the injury. He said if there was any blame for bringing Durant back only to see him suffer such a devastating injury it was on his shoulders.
It continued Thursday with Klay Thompson going down with a torn ACL in the third quarter after scoring 30 points in the deciding Game 6. In a final heroic moment, Thompson emerged from the bowels of Oracle Arena to shoot two final free throws before hobbling back to the locker-room.
And then there was the loss of the NBA Championship in the final game ever at Oracle Arena.
“The most common conversation I had with everybody was that we were just out of words, we were just out of emotion,” he said. “As a human being you can only process so much. And then winning and losing is an emotional event.”
“For me, growing up, going to Warriors games, I will never forget [Thompson] walking out and shooting those free throws. Just as a fan, I don’t get to be a fan that much.”
Myers said he talked with Thompson on Friday morning.
“He said he didn’t sleep much,” the Warriors executive said. “The beauty of Klay was I said: ‘How are you feeling?’ He said ‘I can’t believe we lost that game’…To watch him grow up over the last eight years. What a joy to have him on our team.”
Thompson and Durant are both going into free agency this summer. Myers said the Warriors remained extremely interested in resigning them despite their lengthy recoveries ahead.
“I would say we value those guys at the highest level,” Myers said. “I wouldn’t be a very good GM if I didn’t understand how valuable they are to our own team.”
Myers schedule was accelerating at near light speed with the NBA Draft approaching and exit interviews scheduled with all the players on Thursday.
He admitted to he was not up-to-speed with the alleged confrontation between Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri and an Alameda County Sheriff’s deputy on the floor at Oracle moments before the NBA Championship trophy ceremony.
“I congratulated him (Ujiri), I heard of it but I haven’t seen the video, I haven’t seen any media,” Myers said. “I woke up today, I took my daughters to camp, had some cereal and started meeting with Steph Curry and Draymond Green. There’s enough to do here. I hope it gets resolved in the best way possible. That doesn’t blemish any of what their accomplishments are. They did a wonderful thing, winning a championship is unbelievably hard.”
Myers said he hoped the Bay Area was proud of the battle the Warriors waged in an attempt to three-peat as NBA Champions.
“We didn’t win a championship, but this community and this city, the entire Bay Area, I hope they are proud of what we represent,” Myers said. “That we represented this community appropriately even in losing. Because I always tell people it’s more important how you lose, then how you win. Whatever adversity comes, you show more of yourself than winning championships and sweeping finals.”
Source: sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com