Golden State Warriors

Golden State have a shot at their fourth championship in less than a decade. It's easy to forget they were the worst team in the NBA just two seasons ago.

The Canadian has thrived in the postseason, too, drawing primary-defender duty on Doncic and providing perhaps the highlight of the playoffs so far when he dunked over the Slovenian superstar in Game 3 of the Conference finals. His selection as an All-Star back in February was perhaps more indicative of the dearth of elite forwards in the West with LA Clippers duo Kawhi Leonard and Paul George out, but Wiggins has fully acclimated to the Warriors’ defensive set-up and their constant-motion offense this year. But, looking back now, Curry’s absence from the final 12 games of the season might have been a blessing in disguise. History will remember this season as a continuation of the Golden State dynasty, especially if they go on to claim their fourth NBA title in less than a decade. It has been a remarkable feat of regeneration and rejuvenation. Hand surgery meant Steph Curry missed all but five games of the 2019-20 season, in which Golden State finished with the worst record in the NBA. They were only marginally better the season after, creeping into the inaugural postseason play-in tournament, where they were dumped out by a young Memphis Grizzlies team.

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This story was super fun and informative ahead of the action at the Brickyard. At the end of the race, one lucky (and skilled, of course) man is going to end up chugging milk. When a photo of Meyer drinking buttermilk appeared in a local newspaper the following day, it caught the attention of a dairy industry executive who saw a marketing opportunity." The Indianapolis 500 is this weekend, and you know what that means? What you may not know is that the Warriors finished second in defensive efficiency this regular season (only behind the Celtics, who they may well meet in the Finals), and with Green and Andrew Wiggins leading the way, they have the length, depth and versatility to defend a variety of attacks. But he has to become a better defender and get in better shape, and those two are intertwined. and they have a lot of questions to answer this offseason. Both squads will be looking for their third trophy of the season. To sign up and get this in your inbox, fill out the information below. At the end of the day, the Warriors, albeit with fewer fireworks, are putting up a postseason offensive rating in line with the Durant years. - Botkin: "This is how you win without superpowers. It's the Warriors' sixth Finals appearance in eight years.

Melissa Rohlin details how GM Bob Myers and the Warriors rose from the depths to reach their sixth NBA Finals in eight years.

And the fact there's a finite timeline to all of this in terms of trying to play at this level. "The thing about being in the Finals that I think would be a common thread for an executive or coach or a player is the tension of it," Myers told FOX Sports. "It's the inability to breathe. "Where our core is in terms of our careers, we feel like we have a whole lot more left in the tank," Curry said. There was the surreal feeling Myers felt after the Warriors first reached the mountaintop in 2015. I think going back to the Finals for six years in a row is just kind of unfathomable." "In hindsight, it probably was a good recovery for us. Would they be able to figure things out in time to make a run? It wasn't until they won 15 of their last 20 games that they started to look like a semblance of their old selves. But there were too many injuries to gauge the team. He pointed to all the gray hairs in his beard at age 32. But back then, there were only eight NBA teams, compared to the 30 there are today. And so when you make all these sacrifices and come up short, the pain is like, 'I worked really hard for this, and it didn't happen.'"

The Golden State Warriors have won the Western Conference Finals, and with the victory, they were handed some interesting celebratory hats.

Here were some reactions to the merch, with comparisons to a gas station find and more: All things considered, I’m not sure how I feel about these hats. “I dreamt about this like every day…