What we are doing here are two old, time-honored newspaper things, which are so old and so time-honored that they have their own clichés.
First, we are issuing a genuine, Grade-A, official Kiss of Death to the Golden State Warriors, by even speculating where their place in the pantheon of all-time greatest NBA teams will be … while they are sitting on three wins — which, at last check, still is one win shy of actually being a champion. So we’re honoring them on spec, and assuming we will not have to toss them into the ring alongside the 1972-73, 68-win Celtics to battle out the title of best-ever team not to win a title.