When Kevin Durant departed the Golden State Warriors at the end of the 2019 season, many declared Golden State’s dynasty to be dead.
Since then the Warriors have played four seasons, with winning records in three of them, two playoff appearances, and a world championship to boast.
It was less than a year ago that Golden State’s owner Joe Lacob, basking in the glow of that title, emphatically heralded the team’s strategy of aggressively gathering young talent around the team’s stars:
“You have to take some risk, you can’t just do what everyone else is doing.