The goal was enormous: Return to the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) mountaintop.And now with that monumental task complete, the NBA champion Golden State Warriors already have a new target: staying up there for a while. Know more:
Klay Thompson and Draymond Green all back it would be foolish to think that their chance at a fifth championship in nine years isn’t very real.That’s true, and that’s why it makes sense for the Warriors to carry the burden of being favorites into next season. They know what it takes; they have as many championships in the last eight seasons—four—as the rest of the league combined.
“They are all unique. They are all special,” Kerr said. “I think this one may have been the most unlikely just from the standpoint of where we’ve been the last couple years. A lot of unknowns.”The Warriors answered them all. No, the core wasn’t too old. Yes, Thompson would come back from more than 900 days on the sidelines with injuries. And absolutely, Curry can still be unstoppable in the biggest moments.
The Warriors had the NBA’s worst record in 2019-20 in large part because of roster turnover—Kevin Durant, who was out that whole season while recovering from Achilles surgery, had just left for Brooklyn—and injuries. Thompson didn’t play that season because of a knee injury suffered in the final game of the 2019 finals. Curry played in just five games. It was the reset year.
Training camp is only three months away so the revving-up process for next season will start sooner rather than later. The Warriors know they’ll be right back in the center of the NBA spotlight, playing tons of national TV games, getting every opponent’s best shot, drawing massive attention everywhere they go again.
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