Since the Golden State Warriors won the NBA Championship back in the June, the team has fought off notions that they got ‘lucky’. Doc Rivers told Zach Lowe, on the website formerly known as Grantland, that he thought the Warriors got lucky because they avoided the San Antonio Spurs and the Los Angeles Clippers in the playoffs.
That started the idea that they also got lucky when they played a hurt New Orleans Pelicans team in the first round, a Memphis Grizzlies team missing Mike Conley for a couple of games, a Houston Rockets team with a now revealed to be injured Dwight Howard and a Cleveland Cavaliers team missing Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving.
Luck? The Warriors have started the season 5-0 and they’ve all but ended that notion. And they also are sick of hearing about it.
Following from Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports.
“That word pisses me and people in this locker room off because there was a lot of hard work that went into winning this championship,” Warriors guard Stephen Curry told Yahoo Sports after Wednesday night’s 112-108 win over the Clippers, Golden State’s 18th win in the series’ last 20 regular-season games. “While you were celebrating, you never want to hear somebody degrade what you did or what you accomplished.”
Warriors forward Draymond Green told Yahoo Sports: “At first when I heard it, I was pissed.”
I would be pissed too if I was on the Warriors. The Warriors finished last season with a 67-15 record in the regular season with a point differential of plus-10.1 per game, which ranks up there with some of the best teams of all-time.
Lucky? I don’t think so. But everyone can keep saying it, it obviously only makes Stephen Curry and the Warriors play better.
