Kevin Durant and Steph Curry are going to laugh their way into history this season.
– Bill Annechino
One of my favorite moments on Sportscenter happens when an athlete does something crazy and ESPN pulls up a statistic from the Elias Sports Bureau that says that this was the first time this has happened since 1991 (the year I was born). Sometimes it feels like it’s all been done, but for 1 second I get reminded that there was something that happened today that has literally never happened in my lifetime. It’s sort of like when a comet passes by Earth once every 200 years or something. IN fact, you may have heard the expression that someone or something was a “comet” in that it was a once in a lifetime experience. With that in mind, this year’s Golden State Warriors team is going to be a comet. What you probably don’t know is how historic this is primed to be. By adding Kevin Durant, the Warriors have paired two of the top three players in the NBA (Steph Curry is #1 and Kevin Durant is #3) for arguably the first time since the ABA/NBA merger. Throughout the history of the league, there have been memorable groups of superstars; Kareem/Worthy/Magic in L.A., Duncan/Parker/Ginobili in S.A., Jordan and Pippen in Chicago, Shaq and Kobe in L.A.… you get the picture. Rarely have these pairings resulted in 2 players from the same team finishing in the top 5 of MVP voting, however. In this article, we are going to try to figure out just how historic the 2016-2017 Golden State Warriors could be, as well as how their pursuit of history meshes with their basketball philosophy. Continue reading
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