John Christopher Cohan (born January 2, 1950)[1] is an American entrepreneur who was founder of Sonic Communications and was owner of the Golden State Warriors of the NBA.
[1] John Cohan was originally from Texas and created businesses in Salinas, California, including a restaurant and later the television station KSBW.
[1] In 1977, Cohan founded Sonic Communications, which became one of the largest independently owned cable outlets in the country before he sold it in May 1998.
SI criticized Cohan for sticking with coach Don Nelson as part of the Warriors' generally poor performance apart from their 2007 playoff first-round upset of the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks, and pointed out that Golden State was repeatedly rebuilding without much success.
[7] In the wake of such criticism and controversy, he finally sold the Warriors to Peter Guber and Joe Lacob for $450 million in July 2010.