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- A look back at the Kevin Durant era Warriors, who might be the best in the history of the NBA.
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This team was so OP they had to beat themselves to lose.
Like the heat
@@Betroidlol but nah the heat were beatable
@@jamaragon2424they heat also had 4 all stars at one point and were betting favorites before every season they jus allergic to old ppl that’s why the mavs and spurs were too much
I would say the 2018 Rockets beat themselves more so than the Warriors beating them with key injuries (Luc A Moute, and CP3) one underperformer ( Clint Capela), and the 27 missed 3s and still losing by single digits.....with a 15 point lead at halftime without CP3.
2017-2018 season Rockets is the focus
Don't bring up the yr after when KD got hurt....Rockets lost 2 key pieces in free agency and CP3 and Harden started feuding and the chemistry wasn't the same.
The threepeat lakers only beat themselves as well. By shaq gaining weight and kobes injuries. They don’t lose if they stayed healthy
Of the 4 titles the Warriors won, I think their 2022 one was the most impressive. It showed that they were still there when a lot of people assumed their run was over. I think that's the one that meant the most to Steph too.
Obviously 2022 was most impressive , 2015 after tht
it hits more of it
The Celtics were loaded and young lions Steph had to go crazy to pull that one off💪🏿💪🏿
To me it was their 2015 one
They won it because other teams got tons of injuries, LAC, Denver.
That line "looks like james picked up a random bystandards to play the nba finals" is wild 💀
This 😂😂😂
Yep! That's the only line that I can recall after watching the whole video. LOL!@@meljudegomez9521
same for 2007 finals
that's how lebron fans disrespect his teammates to boost him.
Gotta prop up their favorite player somehow.
It was already weak that KD joined them, but the warriors winning before he got there AND after he left says a lot
It does say a lot it says that warriors needed him for those back to back rings he won for them cause lebron would’ve had 2 extra rings if he wasn’t there to take charge 😂
@@Shareef505its not like Bron stopped existing after KD left warriors. Why didn't he get those 2 extra rings then?
@@allstar4065Bron went to the Lakers in 2018-19 and won a ring the year after KD left the Warriors
@@allstar4065 Kyrie left remember? And Love was reduced to a bench player
@@allstar4065 lebron went to the finals both years cause he was on a mission. Take KD out those series and he wins both no doubt about it!
This feels more like a documentary about KD than the warriors
my thought exactly
KD joining the team he couldn’t beat in the western conference finals 8 years ago ruined a would be all time great rivalry between LeBron and Steph
LeBron would easily beat Steph with a healthy Kyrie an K Love. The fact that LeBron won 2 games without Kyrie an K Love in 2015 is already a sign.
Go watch tennis, or some other individual
Exactly
If kd wasn't in the warriors I don't think they would even get past that mvp james harden rockets
@@jdapaul1351yawn .. warriors first finals after coming from no where with no established superstars coming into the season vs Bron in year 12 and 5th finals appearance
RDCWorld said it best when the trade happened: "THEY THE JUSTICE LEAGUE!"
Send me a link😂 I gotta see this
W RDC 🫡
😂 wasn’t even a trade the league just let it happen for free lmao
@@abskhairounSearch in how “lebron reacts to kevin durant's decision rdcworld”
Uhmm hey I got a question
The 2019 Warriors were so good that they lost KD in the 2nd round, made the finals anyways, stole 2 games despite KD only playing 12 minutes, and were up late in Game 6 until Klay tore his ACL. And they weren't even as good as the 2017 Warriors.
Crazy kawhis legacy is built off of beating an injured team in 6 games 😂
any team that can win a chip running a box and one in the finals cuz the other team is missing all their stars and most of their bench should have their ring taken😭😭@@mattsell2361
lol. Raptors were the better team that season (2-0 vs the 100% healthy Warriors in the regular season). It was only close because OG never played a minute of the playoffs, Kawhi was playing with a leg injury (which is why his PPG were way lower than they should have been against a weaker defensive team) and Lowry had a hand injury requiring major surgery. I think the fact that Nick Nurse didn't whine about the injury situation is why people mistakenly think they were healthy.
@@Paulafan5 the warriors were not 100% healthy in their regular season
@@Paulafan5 Regular season dont count, playoff matters
_"I am Kevin Durant. You know who i am"_
the lightest brag i ever heard.
And yes, basketball and competition fans knew who you are.
As soon as he said that, I knew the Clippers done fucked up
Easy to talk when your not the one driving the bus.
He's two times NBA Final MVP
@@NasteeGodmeh still more impressed with 2022 Steph Finals MVP though
@@chan13153 2x FINALS MVP ain’t “driving the bus”? What ever happened to logic these days?
Everyone loves an underdog, and this team was ANYTHING but an underdog. People can get behind a single player trying to drag a trash team to a chip but something like the golden state avengers was a little much. That’s more of a testament to how good each of these players are/were but c’est la vie
They were an underdog until they weren't.
Having 4 top 20 players on your team and the refs on your side is a powerful combination. Moving screen central
This feels more like a Kevin durant video than a warriors video
It certainly is. Everything that didnt have KD included was excluded from this video
KD was the difference maker. It's not Harrison Barnes out there
Warriors KD was the best KD version ngl
Especially the playoffs version. He was simply unguardable on offense and terrific on defense.
No bum westbrook and Robertson shooting 3s, defense just doubl8ng him
No shit he was on the avengers 😂
He was the same player the year before just on a superteam
The 2015-2019 era was an awesome/awful time in the league. The awesome was being able to witness the dynasty of GS, the other was the Cavs 3-1 comeback. The awfulness was how every team was pretty irrelevant until 2019 free agency.
All the finals besides 2016 was Cavs gifting championships to GSW. East was so weak that it was painful to see. Tbf, it’s still weak besides the Celtics and bucks, maybe take out bucks cuz they got doc rivers as the coach
@@garunack4664 in fact cavs were proclaimed as worst defensive finalist teams of all time
LeBron and the cavs defeated a 73-9 team then the Warriors just assembled the best team in history lmao
you mean injuries😂😂
@@alliesstartedww1308 Up 3-1 with 2 home games for the warriors (Game 5 and 7) and don't forget Draymond puts up his best performance in game 7 (32pts 15reb 9assists)😬
@@alliesstartedww1308you mean the main reason Golden State won all their championships?
Thunder should have beaten them in 2016.
@@sebastiangonzales46 And Dray,ond was suspended for a BS call. Lebron threw him to the ground. Anyone with working eyes can watch that clip and see this. Draymond wasn't given a T or even a foul. But somehow gets suspended? The fix was in bro and you're simply not intelligent enough to realize it.
It is like Jordan joining Boston which he couldn’t beat that time spoiling the Magic-Bird rivalry.
@lucaswalker7271 stop lying to yourself
stop dickriding lil bro @@culturedbyhoops
@lucaswalker7271 2016 is different than 2017
The fact that golden state still won the 2022 championship shows how little they “needed” him. He needed them to win the chip.
The most factual statement I ever heard
They didn’t need him they won in 2015 lmaoo
But they definitely needed him to stop bron from 3 peating
They’d have lost to that rocket team without kd, spurs in 207? Maybe
you realize thats 5 years into the future gang with whole new team they went into a povety stage without kd
What they Warriors lost with KD's departure, they got the combo of Wiggins and Pool: defense, scoring and playmaking. And they also had depth. The 2022 team was not the same team from 2017-2019.
KD is a champion and nobody can ever take that away from him but him recently asking why he can’t be in the goat discussion is ridiculous. Bro you don’t even clear your teammate in that goat discussion. He’s top 15 but not top 10. No serious person would have KD in the goat convo
He's not a real champion.
He’s definitely top 15 for sure. Putting him any higher than that disrespects other players that have done more in their time frames.
Literally it’s no discussion the warriors made his legacy 😂
If he actually leads a team to a chip for once by himself then maybe hed break top ten, but hed have to do it twice
@@SuperSikarloThen neither is lebron
Thanks Nonstop, I’m new to Basketball, so it’s exiting to find out more about legendary teams! The voiceover is also perfect without any unessesary emotions
2019 was heartbreaking, so many injuries ruined everything. If Klay survived that game 6, we would go in game 7 and then.. yeah, we would never know. Glad we bounced back in 2022♥️
Definitely could’ve titled this “i love kevin durant”
Give your life to Christ, God loves you all.
This feels like a KD documentary 😂
😂
Kd is so underrated defensively, not the top 20 defenders ever but still an elite defender for his career
Kd really let the fans get to him in the way of being a dynasty with golden state.
IMO, I think Draymond Green , is the biggest detriment to the franchise , and keeping him around has messed up the team .
It was mainly Draymond man
All because he wanted thr bag..he ran poole out an kd out smh
God that 2017 revenge season after choking a 3-1 lead as Warriors fan was so sweet. We went from hated to despised in a single day and one signing and I loved every second of it. The amount of complaining and whining about them being too good was something I never thought I would’ve seen from a Warriors team
A great video with lots of great information.
Information about durant
they fit perfectly with each other. you can put every all star in 1 team and it still wont work if they aren’t the right fit.
Love your videos
I don't really have a problem with KD joining the Dubs. What I do have a problem with is him acting like the 2 rings with them puts him at GOAT status even though he left and they got another. He's the most delusional player in the NBA.
He always gonna be Goat status no matter what the fans say.
@@Shareef505 Yeah, no. 😄
@@Shareef505 Never
@@Shareef505lol
No Kd = no dynasty
Recent attempted super teams just validates this warriors team even more imo. We have seen in recent years a fair amount of super teams that have felt very short of their potential.
because there was no team in history that was able to stack the way warriors did, in comes down to you guys learning about cap spaces, and paycuts and such, and moral grounds, no one in history like bulls with mj would pull what warriors did in getting KD, same thing with prime shaq and younger kobe, it was an unforgivable written rule, then lebron ruined it, and kd made it worse
two things made this possible:
1. Steph was still on a cheap contract from when he was injury prone
2. The NBPA rejected cap smoothing for the new TV deal and opted for an instant cap spike which allowed GSW to sign KD
KD: "Why I'm not in the goat debate what havent I done"
Everyone else: didn't win a real championship and ruined the NBA for 2 years because he was butt hurt. Everyone knows Curry was the best player and main focus of all defenses that played the warriors.
2017 and 2018 are phantom rungs 🙄
Curry is better all time but they gave Durant the FMVP for a reason.
@@ivnmrtnzyes Ty lue himself said they was trying to slow down curry over kd that’s why he got them
you really are a hater lmao... if you really watch and read the game you will know why... also fyi draymond clay Steph iggy gsw organization would say the same... not what you think and say
@@alexescutia4805we both watched different games then.
10:18 😂😂😂 "It looked like he was playing with some bystanders that he picked on his way to the arena"
I think the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 Warriors are the best teams ever assembled in the NBA. I’m picking either one of those teams over any other team in a 7-game series, all-time.
nah, the Gayrriors wouldn't be able to beat a Prime Spurs team or a Prime Lakers team in a 7 game series.
@@kmena05 Nah, theyd only lose to the 1996 Bulls
theyd win in 7@@vulcanraven9701
@@vulcanraven9701I don't think Gayrriors would survive hand checking
@@vulcanraven9701 ron harper is going to have a seizure guarding steph and Jordan finna feel like lebron being the only viable scorer on that team and then he's gonna have to chase klay off ball lol. KD is smoking scottie and u finna say "WhaT about Defense" until you realize the warriors finished top 2 in both offensive and defensive rating that season LOL. Warriors in 5 and that's being generous
They won before and after KD. Shows how easy it was for him and how impressive that Cavs team fought considering who they had aside from Kylie and Lebron
Bro full love!
Your the best bro
They did not need Durant but he sure did need them
AGREE BRO WHAT DOESENT ANYTHING UNDERSTAND
btw I meant anyone
i agree. 2016 proved warriors didnt need KD but KD needed them. people say "oh but without KD they wouldnt get 2 rings" they still would get 2 rings even without KD.
They still got a ring without him
73-9 says enough the warriors created KDs legacy
keep on going for your amazing videos!!!
OSM videos guys keep it up :)
The most fair assessment of the KD / Warriors saga i have heard yet.
Is this a Warriors video or a Kevin Durant video?
This video was littiraly about KD rather than Golden State Warriors
Nice video
Man I wish I still lived in this time it was so fun watching bball just isn’t the same :(
Him joining the warriors ruined an all time rivalry between bron and curry. They was at 1-1. Imo bron was going back to back. But KD shifted the balance. Also, the reason why people criticize Durant is not because he left OKC he left them to the team he JUST choked a 3-1 lead to in the playoffs. If he woulda gone for example to Houston with Harden and beaten GS to a ring, it woulda been legendary.
I think he played with Harden before and wanted something new
The warriors didn`t need KD, they won before him and they won after him.
KD needed the GSW so that he could be the guy after Harrison Barnes and the guy before Andrew Wiggins.
Maybe the history said that they didn't "need" KD, but I doubt they will ever win in a series against Prime Lebron and his healthy team. In 2022, LeBron has passed his prime. In short, they need KD to beat the LeBron Cavs, specifically.
There is something called "in the moment" and they definitely needed him for those 2 years... plus the nba world changed since he left...don't be dumb
Lebron with healthy teammates beat them before and after durant...they needed him
Fax warriors were insane
What I liked about this warriors team was their bench, those bench guys were also great and most of the time score a lot when they have the lead.
I grew up less than a mile from oracle arena, Steph was drafted the year I was born and I will never forget this era of not just nba history but my life. They put Oakland on the map and I will forever be grateful to have grown up in this city at this time.
(2017 warriors are clapping 96 bulls btw)
most definitely. they would destroy the bulls. the only people that say otherwise are oldheads with nostalgia.
If the Basket ball gods didn't interfered clearly at least 4 straight rings.
lebron and kyrie must be the baketball gods
@@sportstalkonly1442 I'm talking about KD Warriors era.
@@dealpha3698 I think that shows how unfair golden state really was
True @@sportstalkonly1442
Draymond is the problem plus the injuries maybe kd can stay if Draymond not being a fucking idiot.
A GREAT video. A reminder of who the Warriors really are.
Honestly, the Warriors got so lucky with the Rockets injuries like still, they got pushed to game seven that Houston teams would’ve crushed the Cavaliers
man stop it lebron would never lose to james harden in the finals🤣🤣🤣🤣
TBF Rockes' star players James Harden and CP3 are known to be injury prone. Rockets GM is to blame for betting on their health.
You joking right you got to past a lebron team dude
I’m sorry but they probably would’ve won 1 chip if CP3 didnt get injured
Btw I am talking about the warriors
A ring is a ring. KD's career is better with Golden State than if he had stayed in OKC and never won a ring.
But not all rings are made the same. Dirk's one ring is worth more than KD's two, which is why Dirk is ranked higher oat imo
I’m a Mavs fan and I’ll say KD is more talented than Dirk, but I agree i rather have Dirk because of his loyalty and the fact he could lead a team (an old team basically on their last chance btw) on an impressive run to a championship
Dirk beat prime wade and bron he deserve that gotta give it to Jason terry too bro went off couple games
Exactly. KD is a champion and nobody can take that away from him but he’ll never be in the GOAT discussion like he recently brought up. He made his bed and he needs to be comfortable laying in it. Curry will always be higher up on any GOAT discussion compared to KD.
@@deeblachvlogs5836 Mavs had one more chance in 2014. That roster is overlooked bc of an early first round exit but they took the eventual champ Spurs to 7.
@@deeblachvlogs5836 KD is better no doubt. But Dirk is greater. Dirk has faced countless 50+ win teams (I think more than anyone, if I'm not mistaken), he beat the defending champions LAL, OKC, Portland and the Heat. Dirk is not better, but he's simply greater by far due to that.
Please please do a video on the Toronto Raptors run to a championship in 2019
Kd is a great shooter for the warriors team than ever before and after he is with the ball rolling in your heart with the sun's team ka.pai 👋☘️
Greatest Offseason Signing Of All Time!!!
KD and the warriors was special 💯 bron bron fans/cavs fans still bitter 😂
As a warriors fan. This was the greatest move they did acquiring KD without getting rid of the big 3 is huge and all those crying are lebron fans to be honest 😂😂
Michael Jordan said, "But did you 3PEAT??"
The Bulls still are the greatest team of all-time
lmao the warriors would be shooting 3s all over them
Question: What if KD stacked the deck again? Request a trade to the top 2seeds in each conference and stacked the deck again after that? Then enters the GOAT DEBATE
The NBA gift wrapped that game 4 for the Cavs IYKYK in 2017
Can you please make a video about some centers
Goddman even this video skipped out Mark Jackson’s role in the birth of the dynasty wtf
Brought up don nelson but skipped right over Mark Jackson aka the guy who got the dubs into playoffs
Warriors vs Cavs 2017 were just perfectly matched. The original core were all drafted and Cavs core are all traded to form a superteam
If they were perfectly matched the cavs wouldn't have lost in 5
@@sportstalkonly1442 not the Warriors fault
@@user-dq1ow5ql7e never said it was. I only said they weren't perfectly matched
if they are perfectly magtched, then 96 bulls would beat 2017 warriors
They looked perfectly matched in 2016 and then they added the 2nd or 3rd best player in the world and it's still even?
i miss this time man the best team ever
if kawhi didn't get hurt in game 1, spurs would have beaten them
yeah sure.............. whatever helps you sleep at night buddy
Sure buddy sure
You’ll never know that lol
No one knows , its game 1, even kawhi didnt get hurt, warriors still win in that series cuz curry,klay and kd still hungry in winning championship rings no one cant stop this trio
Not very likely but yes there was a chance. That spurs team with kawhi was special, they always matched up well vs gsw.
Yall need to respect KD more. And it's more of a shame that Warriors fans don't give him respect
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Well they won a chip before and after they left and made a lot of teams irrelevant. Even 2018 playoff LeBron which I consider the best form of him couldn’t take down that team. We know KD is good but until he wins a chip without the warriors or a super team he probably will keep being disrespected.
@@quentinhans4755 you have a warped understanding of what greatness is
@@adekunle4672 na you defo do, he is 100% correct
The "Warriors fans" that hate on KD are just insecure Curry dickriders mad that he wasn't best player during their 2 rings together
One of the best final performances by kd
"Because he was Kd it worked" 🥶🥶🥶 (12:45)
Everybody can say what they want but that warriors team needed KD as much as KD needed that warriors team.
Stop💀
Obviously! Lol without KD bron was gon be in in 2017 again
Yep they both needed each other just to beat Bron. That 2015 title was Bs due to those injuries. When the cavs were healthy they beat GSW. So clearly KD and the GSW both needed each other. Idk why people can't see that. Kyrie and love don't get hurt in 2015. Cavs prob won those back to back. And would've made KD move even more logical. Nobody would be saying what they are saying now
They won a championship and we're one game away from another...they could have gotten any reasonably good player to get back on top
Ya’ll can get triggered all you want but it’s the truth. I agree the cavs looked strong and bron definitely had a good shot at carrying the cavs forward. He clearly proved that. I’m not a Lebron fan at all but the proof is in the pudding.
They need a movie or a tv series
And had to hurt Khawi Leonard to secure a win vs the spurs and lost to the guy on 2019. Khawi the Dubs killer!
I agree
Kawhi on one leg beat the Warriors in 2019. He had some leg/knee injury he suffered at the end of the ECF.
@@Paulafan5 Warriors was depleted in 2019 clown
2017 sweep 96 bulls
they were struggling with hobbled kawhi and injured spurs team, how would they beat 96 bulls?
@@theonlygoodonehere2259modern spacing could make an AVERAGE team beat the 1996 bulls
Gm ones of the p-offs are just a feel. The next gms would not b the same anymore. Poffs is a game of adjustments@@theonlygoodonehere2259
Fun team to watch. Everyone here in Northern California was rooting for em
If the hate for Curry, Draymond, and the Warriors organization for recruiting KD was parallel to the hate for KD for joining them, one could argue life was fair.🤷🏾♂️
72-10 don't mean a thing without a ring.
73-9
So... it goes us another two in the end!! And a 7 game series is no slouch. That's as close as it gets
lmao 73-9 is more meaningful than a ring. I forget who even won the last 5 rings but I'm never forgetting a team getting 73-9
@@dar7279 This is peak basketball retardation right here. Dumbest of the dumbest comment.
Klay boasting his 4 rings being just carried😂
yeah sure
as much as it was snake for kd to join them, the value he provided proved they also needed him
They eventually won in 2022. That speaks volumes on how good that team was without KD. They also won in 2015.
Having said that, I think that the 2017 GSW is the best team ever assembled.
As a die hard 90s Bulls fan,
no doubt that KD's Warriors is the greatest team ever assembled, especially the last version....the 2018/19 with the Cousin, Pole and all that bench.
Only injuries could stop them
KD will forever be a snake for joining a 73 W team that he couldn’t beat the year prior.
The 96 Bulls would have demolished this team with 90s rules. They would have won comfortably with modern rules.
Sorry to tell you bro but the 2017 warriors would blow the 96 bulls out every game in a best of 7
@@PriestDaSensei lol, no....bro.
They can never take that from the Dubs. We have Steph, and 4 rings. The Core will continue to be in the Best Team conversations!!💯💯
When the Warriors win, there are no Kyrie and Love; when the Cavs win, there is no Bogut and Green, all of whom play big roles on defense in the Warriors' system. What I mean is, both teams deserve credit for winning the finals. Injuries are part of the game..
2019 roster should be the best ever. They had curry, klay, KD, Draymond, and boogie.
Tee hee they still lost to the raptors
No offense I mean they could have been goated but KD always gets injured
@@spiderman-zs9ej Put it in a what if perspective.
Raptors beat them twice in the regular season (both times, the Warriors were 100% healthy). It's just a shame that BOTH teams were so crippled for the Finals. Raptors were without OG (their most versatile defender) and both Lowry and Kawhi were playing with injuries (Lowry had a hand issue requiring major surgery and Kawhi injured his leg/knee at the end of the Bucks series).
nah, the bench sucks
@@Paulafan5 at that point warriors did not take the regular season serious at all. When kd came back against raptor for that 1 quarter they were destroying the raptors. Plus they got raptors to 6 games and only started losing when klay got injured.
so much bout kd but u cudnt once speak abt how gud curry was during this period. all the gud part of the team u spoke abt was circling around kd and all the bad part around curry and the splash brothers. lowkey sad. are we really gonna forget how curry inhibited his own growth in ball for the overall team success. he cudve have played like how he does now way back then too. with insane finishes at the basket. hes just more than wht stats can show. and cmon he averaged just 2 points less than kd in the 18 finals. the main focus of defense was curry.
4:45 They got murdered by the Durant Curry Pick and roll 😆
I love Kd, but I am not sure if he would have a ring if he did not join the warriors
I STILL can’t believe people genuinely think 96 Bulls beat this team 😂
It's cuz Jordan fans think that he is christ himself
We'll never know
Research the 1996 bulls and tell me what you see
They wouldn’t lmao
this team will never match 72-10 chicago bulls.
If Chicago went nearly undefeated in the playoffs in their 72-10 season, they would undoubtedly be the greatest team of all time.
who can you compare them to?, they got the job done, went a historic 72-10 and still won the chip. total domination of all other teams. if thats not your standard for the GOAT team then I don't trust it.
@@patrickoloko4184 I still believe the 72-10 Bulls are the greatest team of all time.
However, just by a razor thin edge with all the skill and spacing of today's game. Plus, by the numbers, the 2017 Warriors were better. They're my favorite team all time but objectively, 72 wins with a ring edges out slightly.
This team went 73-9 without Kd and you think the bulls are better then them with KD 😂
As painful as it sounds, losing Game 7 in 2016 was a blessing in disguise for DubNation. All that loss did was unleash an active volcano on the rest of the NBA. Kevin Durant's arrival signaled one thing. "CLEVELAND YOU'RE A DEAD MAN WALKING!" Not to say the Cavs weren't pushovers, they had come back from 3-1, and most of if not their entire 2016 team would be back in 2017. However, I must admit this. The only time I've never ever gotten nervous during a single playoff run of any of my teams was the 2017 Warriors. I made the point that this team may never lose again. Their only loss was Game 4 of the Finals where the Cavs got off to a ridiculously hot start and never looked back. Other than that game Game 3 against Cleveland, and Game 1 against San Antonio were the Dubs ever in a position to lose a game during that postseason.
2018 I thought would be more of the same. But then we realized that the Houston Rockets were going to make us earn every minute of that series. The Chris Paul injury was a big blow, but thats not why they were eliminated. The Rockets got beat at their own game. The 3 ball. You tried to copy us Houston, but to no avail. And by the way, enjoying missing 27 straight 3-pointers. The Finals was a coronation other than the overtime epic in Game 1. Once JR Smith didn't know what he was doing, the Cavs were dead on arrival.
2019 would be considered a What If by most Warrior fans, but to be honest, they got outplayed by Toronto. When you lose all 3 games at home regardless of who is out there, thats not a good look. I know KD was hurt, and Klay tore his ACL in Game 6, but there's no excuse to go 0-3 at home especially losing the final game at Oracle to lose the series. I do think it was best that KD left for the Nets only in the sense that both he and Steph wanted to prove that they could win a title without the other. Durant hasn't really come close other than in 2021, and Steph was able to win it all in 2022. That team like the 2015 Warriors had 30, 11, and 23 leading the way with their Strength in Numbers motto of unsung heroes making key contributors helping them out. Who knows if the Dubs will make it back, but I must say this. Boy, what a joy it was to watch those teams, especially 2015-18 play.
My rant on the 2016 - 2019 Golden State Warriors:
The Kevin Durant era of the Golden State Warriors was obviously one of the most hated eras of the team.
2016 - 2017: The San Antonio Spurs were on the verge of obliterating the Warriors UNTIL ZAZA PACHULIA HAD TO INJURE KAWHI LEONARD TO MAKE SURE SAN ANTONIO PAID THE PRICE BY HAVING THE WARRIORS COME BACK TO WIN GAME 1, ULTIMATELY COMPLETING THE SWEEP OF THE SPURS!! LIKE IN 2016, GAME 1 AND GAME 2 WERE LOPSIDED WINS FOR GOLDEN STATE, AND MY CLEVELAND CAVALIERS WERE ON THE VERGE OF WINNING GAME 3, BUT THEN DURANT HAD TO RUIN IT BY HITTING THAT DAGGER ON THE WAY TO WINNING THE 2017 TITLE FOR GS, AND FORCING DAVID GRIFFIN TO STEP DOWN AS GENERAL MANAGER AND ALSO FORCING KYRIE IRVING TO REQUEST A TRADE!!
2017 - 2018: The Houston Rockets had a chance to go back to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1995, BUT GOLDEN STATE HAD TO RUIN IT IN GAME 6 AND GAME 7!! THEY ALSO HAD TO SWEEP MY CAVALIERS WHEN DURANT HAD TO HIT THE SAME DAGGER FROM 2017, WHICH FORCED LEBRON JAMES TO LEAVE MY CLEVELAND CAVALIERS AGAIN!!
2018 - 2019: My FLAMING passion for hating the Warriors no doubt reached its peak, as I would start going furiously ballistic every time Golden State won following that Warriors-Bulls game on October 29, 2018 (Simpsons star Dan Castellaneta turned 61 that day), AS WELL AS MY CLEVELAND CAVALIERS NOW BEING TRASH BECAUSE OF KD AND GOLDEN STATE MESSING THEM UP!! After almost making me want to go Homer Simpson mode by violently strangling Durant with the Warriors once again breathing through the playoffs, they finally got their comeuppance in the 2019 NBA Finals by losing in six games to the Toronto Raptors.
And that’s my rant.
I’m sure KD regrets joining the warriors.
KD followed a principle
’If you can’t beat them, join them’
I think the title should be: Kevin Durant Documentary 2017-2019
laughing to klay rn😂
The whole video about the Warriors dynasty is incomplete without Mark Jackson
If the Warriors hadn't got KD to join them, they would have had a lot more money to spread around multiple role players, like they'd done in 2014 and 2015, to give them a chance to win titles. They wouldn't have been as good as they turned out to be with him, but they would have been right there in the mix...every year. That was a jacked team, even without KD.
Even if the warriors are done I'm really happy that they won in 2022 this season is straight sad
history would've changed so significantly if anything mentioned in this video went any differently at all