With All-Star Weekend behind us, let’s turn our eyes to the most important part of the NBA season: the postseason. Who will be the Golden State Warriors biggest challengers in the Western Conference playoffs?
Exiting All-Star Weekend, the Warriors will get back on the long, tedious struggle that is the regular season. While they’re currently sitting atop the Western Conference, the pre-All-Star break stretch of games might’ve been the most difficult in Golden State’s reign.
At one point, they lost five of six games, dropping four straight, their longest streak in over half a decade. However, they figured it out and rallied off eleven straight at one point, a streak that didn’t surprise many.