First, feelers from the LA Clippers organization was that they should be the team with all the glory of winning the 2015 NBA title had it not been for some monumental collapse after going 3-1 up against Houston Rockets in the Western Conference semifinal last postseason because they had done all the hard work of eliminating the Spurs who were the defending champions. Well, for a second, I share their sentiment but let me quickly remind this organization that life doesn't lay anything on the plate for anybody, you just have to earn it.
The Warriors got all the fire they needed to begin the season by responding to their critics from LA in an emphatic fashion, going 24-0 from the start of the season (if to say I be LA Clippers I for don go hide my head inside rabbit hole in shame after going 14-8 within the same period).
Then came the next, they couldn't break the record set by the Micheal Jordan led Chicago Bulls for the most number of wins during the regular season which was 72 games. Well, there just seems to be some fire ignited in this Warriors team when naysayers come calling (I think I must adopt this philosophy in my dear life). Even when the odds were starked against them as the season drew to an end with having to play against San Antonio Spurs twice with the second on the back end of back-to-back games in the space of seven days, they just mustered all the courage they could get and did defeat the Spurs twice to eventually match and break the record set by the Chicago Bulls with 73-games won in the season.
Next was Oklahoma City Thunder, they were boisterous after decimating Spurs 4-2 in the semifinals to quickly race to a 3-1 lead in the Western Conference finals. Mehn, I no go lie, I thought the Warriors were dead and buried but wrong I was. They overcame great odds to beat the Thunder 4-3 and became the 10th team in history to come from 3-1 down to win a series. That just tells you the stuff this team is made up of.
Then, the Cavs had the finals they always wanted- a rematch with the Warriors albeit with a healthy roster as to compare with last season when Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love were absent owing to injury. But here we are, the Warriors are on the brink of their second successive title.
Somehow, king James can't just go quietly. He decides to make a fuss out of the clash he had with Draymond Green in Game 4 by going public with the fact that the League knows what to do as per Green hitting his groin area. In some quarters, it's been said that King James used his influence as one of the games great to get the League to suspend Green. I think this franchise has done enough to make me conclude that Cleveland Cavaliers may have preferred having Draymond Green on the team than seeking to get him suspended for Game 5 of the Finals. This act from Lebron James will only fire up this team to quickly end this series. This team doesn't believe in being overly dependent on one guy, their mantra is "Strength in Numbers". Remember how they took care of Houston Rockets in the absence of Stephen Curry in the first round of the playoffs?
The Warriors just provide the perfect way of responding to skeptics, Turn deaf ears and do exactly what they say you can't do.
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