One way or another, winning an unprecedented 73 games was going to define this season for the Golden State Warriors.
Either it would be the brightest jewel in their championship crown or it would be an all-too-expensive, energy-sucking bauble. Either they would be geniuses for daring to outdo the legendary Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls or they would be viewed as fools for losing sight of the ultimate prize.
Fair? Hell no. But let the second-guessing begin.
That's because a team that seemed to routinely blowtorch opponents down the stretch for the last two years, a team that almost never lost back-to-back games, a team favored to win this year's championship right down to tipoff of Game 7, lost three in a row and its reign as champions to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The finale consisted of the Cavs landing the last two punches in a two-and-a-half-hour brawl Sunday night. The Warriors swung first and last in the final minutes and missed both times. Despite Cleveland's riding of three players for the vast majority of big p ...
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Article written by Ric Bucher