March 10, 2020. Chase Center, San Francisco. Golden State Warriors, 107 – Los Angeles Clippers, 131. The hosts’ starting lineup that day included Andrew Wiggins, Damion Lee, Marquese Chriss, Mychal Mulder and Juan Toscano-Anderson. After the loss, the franchise record that season was 15-50, the worst in the entire NBA.
Then the use of the term “coronavirus” in the media was already beginning to be frequent. However, no one imagined that this would be the last game of a season to forget in the San Francisco Bay. Perhaps even the end of modern basketball’s first dynasty proves just how volatile everything in American competition becomes.
A couple of injuries, the departure of a star and a leading franchise falls to the bottom in just one snap. Still, the story of the Golden State Warriors in the 2010s is idyllic. The franchise came out of nowhere, its development was totally organic. In 2009 Stephen Curry arrives, in 2011 Klay Thompson and in 2012 Draymond Green, all through the draft. An exception to the current norm, where artificially star-studded teams desperately chasing a ring reign. Superteams are no longer built, now they are simply formed.
So the Golden State Warriors began to paint his work, entitled “Modern Basketball.” A new dynasty had been born, and this is confirmed by his five consecutive appearances in the NBA Finals. Next, we review them.
