CHARLOTTE — The New York Times published an 1,800-word profile last week of the last player on the Warriors’ bench. The angle was straightforward enough: What is it like being on the best team in the NBA when you know you probably won’t play?
“I definitely didn’t think it was going to be that big,” James Michael McAdoo said of the piece, which ran with photos of him at the practice facility, at home and, of course, on the bench. “It’s something I’ll never forget.”
It is a good thing that article was written when it was.