The Golden State Warriors have been in the NBA Finals in each of the last five seasons and have won the championship in three of those trips. During those championship runs, they eliminated the Houston Rockets in four of those postseasons. This season, however, they look significantly different, as Kevin Durant and Andre Iguodala have since departed and Klay Thompson is out all season with an injury.
Going into the season, it was widely believed that media favorite Stephen Curry was going to be able to carry the team and that the duo of him and D’Angelo Russell would be good enough to lift Golden State into postseason play, but the early results told a much different story.