As the Golden State Warriors make their bid for a second consecutive NBA championship, their dominance over opponents is built resolutely upon the 3-point shot. For the defending champs and their two-time MVP, Stephen Curry, the 3-point shot has been, quite literally, a game changer.
But in the most delicious irony of the team's storied run, when the three was adopted by a vote of NBA owners in 1979, the franchise most vehemently opposed to rewarding basketball's bomb throwers with an extra point was the Golden State Warriors.Franklin Mieuli, who owned the team for 24 years, stalked out of the rule-change meeting in disgust, threatening never to return if the vote was final.