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For a long time, the Golden State Warriors had the top seed in the Western Conference. Then they eventually ceded that position to the Phoenix Suns, and spent a lot of time chasing the defending champions of the West.
But eventually Phoenix started to drift further and further out of sight, and as the Warriors began to lose game after game they found themselves looking behind them at a rapidly-approaching Memphis Grizzlies squad.