

That’s what they showed us and the entire league through this amazing series, which had some miserable Warriors lows and a couple of remarkable and unmatchable highs. You can’t break up the Warriors because they ferociously don’t want to be broken up. I didn’t ask Lacob any of this specifically, but his mood was probably summed up by his one-liner as he walked out of the arena Sunday evening with a big thumbs up. In my mind, you’ve gotta ride that as long as you can ’cause inevitably it’s going to be really difficult to get back to the top.” It’s just rare to get a group like this together. “This stuff is incredibly hard, no matter how strong your organization is. Haven’t been back to the Finals in 25 years. Being a part of the ’98 Bulls, they’ve had really good teams since then. “I know when we won the title in ’15, it was the first time in 40 years that the Warriors had won a title. “Who knows what’s going to happen this summer, but this is a special era,” Kerr told me after his news conference. You can’t do it the way the Michael Jordan Bulls all broke up after the famous “Last Dance” 1997-98 season.Īnd I think Game 7 is one more reason owner Joe Lacob, Draymond and Myers can’t and won’t let themselves be the ones to call this all off. And so what? You can’t purposely end this anytime sooner than it absolutely has to. The Warriors’ massive luxury-tax bill is coming due hard.

Draymond can become a free agent this summer. You can’t break up the Warriors because it won’t ever be like this again once it’s over. You can’t break up the Warriors, even though that’s been the possibility looming over this entire season, which could’ve ended Sunday.īut it didn’t end. You can’t break up the Warriors if Curry wants this to go on forever - and he put up 50 points, the most ever scored in a Game 7, to make sure this went on at least another round. Because no other team has ever silenced hostile crowds like this and pushed itself to play like this in a procession of epic moments like this. You can’t break up the Warriors because of everything we saw and felt in the Warriors’ soaring 120-100 Game 7 victory over the Kings in Golden 1 Center on Sunday.
