We still played our style of basketball, still holding guys to a high level and a high standard." "We were still able to keep that same culture in the locker room, even though we were losing. "The times when it was rough, we were losing, I think we still had a good group of guys," said Warriors center Kevon Looney, a member of the 20 title-winning Warriors teams. The Warriors' swift return to the finals is a byproduct of a culture that endured throughout the depths of 2020's miserable 15-win season, or last season's elimination in the play-in tournament. Two years ago, the once-mighty Warriors - the dominant NBA franchise of the past decade - appeared to be facing up to the end of an era.Ī league worst 15-50 record left them propping up the foot of the Western Conference, a precipitous fall for a franchise that graced the NBA Finals five times in a row between 20, winning three championships.īut with three pillars of that dynastic run - Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson - back to fitness, and under the shrewd leadership of head coach Steve Kerr, the Warriors are back in their preferred habitat. After a gruelling regular season and a roller coaster playoff campaign, Golden State and Boston will open their best-of-seven finals showdown on Thursday in what has all the makings of a classic between two evenly matched teams.
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