If they don't repeat as champs or make another final within the next decade or so, I could easily see this chip from GSW as "the forgotten championship."
It's like everyone has already moved on from it. I actually don't know why either. Maybe because their best player wasn't a 6'6 transgenerational wing? Maybe because they have no other polarizing players or coaches (yet) that'll go down in NBA annals? Maybe they were too vanilla? Maybe because their appearance doesn't belie how dominant they were last year? Maybe because they had no "classic" series last year?
Perhaps their come up was Too Quick. Literally they went from a 6 seed to a ring within a year, without major roster changes. Literally I can't recall when that has happened in recent memory. Teams normally knock on the door, go through the romanticism faze of a rise to a championship. The whole losing before winning thing. It kind of never happened like that with them.
But I could easily see a 30for30 15 years from now and NBA analyst on there saying "A lot of people don't realize how dominant the Warriors were during that campaign. They were historically great" or something like that.
Historically great regular season. Dominance.
Then the playoffs came and they were trailing against the Grizzlies who were dealing with injuries to Conley and later Tony Allen, two starters.
Later on, they were trailing again and forced to make a lineup change against an Eastern Conference team that was missing three starters.
Point being, if their playoff run was as dominant as their reg season, they wouldn't be as forgettable.
We'll see what happens if Durant, Westbrook, Irving, Love, Conley, & TA are healthy next season.
