Integration of GPII into the rotation has been encouraging, and not just because of his immediate defensive impact. On offense, the way the Warriors use him provides a nice roadmap for James Wiseman. Payton quickly has become a rim-run target, finishing on cuts along the baseline as Warriors gravity pulls defenders away from him. At a bare minimum, Wiseman can fill this role well. He just needs to slip into open space, then cut to rim. Ws’ great passers will find him.

A quick thread on this morning's great Anthony Slater / Joe Lacob interview...

I see four options on what's happening here (from least to most likely): Option 1: Lacob actually believes they can compete for a championship by just adding raw rookies and a free agent or two -- and is right.

In honor of the long wait before the Warriors' 5th consecutive Finals, a thread.

When the history of this dynasty is written, there will be obvious turning points -- the Curry draft, the Cohan sale, the Monta trade, Kerr's hiring, KD's signing, 3 Finals wins (and counting). What's always interested me more are the subtle points when this team figured out how to be historically great. They are moments of foresight, breakthrough, and occasionally dumb luck that in aggregate tell a more textured story of this historic run. Here are my 15 favorite:

A few questions for Warriors critics: Why didn't Kevin Durant want to sign with your team?
Why don't other superstars want to play with your team's superstar?
Why doesn't your team have a superstar?

A brief thread on the Warriors destroying the NBA. I get the complaints about the Warriors. Whenever there's talent disparity, people will complain. I did it for many years when the Warriors were awful and other teams used them as a scrimmage with fans. But the real question is how the Warriors created the current talent gap.