The Golden State Warriors celebrate winning their second NBA championship in three years after defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers 129-120 in Game 5 of the 2017 NBA FInals. Photo: Ezra Shaw/Getty ImagesOAKLAND, Calif.—The NBA has bad teams, laughably bad teams, mediocre teams, good teams, even great teams like the Cleveland Cavaliers, and then it has the Golden State Warriors. The other NBA teams with perfectly normal amounts of professional basketball talent spent this year scheming to beat the Warriors. Golden State improved almost immediately upon the publication of an online essay with the nine words the rest of the NBA feared: “I am going to join the Golden State Warriors.” The blogger was an extraordinarily talented basketball player named Kevin Durant. As if that weren’t enough, Golden State also had one of the league’s most suffocating defenses.

Source: Wall Street Journal June 13, 2017 03:45 UTC