After watching the NBA playoffs with out his Warriors, Mike Dunleavy not solely is assured Golden State can return to the match subsequent season, however nonetheless can compete for a championship.
In chatting with reporters Monday at Chase Heart in a pre-2024 NBA Draft press convention, the Warriors common supervisor defined why watching this 12 months’s playoff discipline battle it out for the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy gave him confidence in Golden State’s probabilities to do the identical subsequent season.
“I believe simply by way of the postseason, like how aggressive it’s by way of parity. I believe you see the final 5 seasons, you could have 5 totally different champions,” Dunleavy stated. “I believe that is thrilling for the league within the sense of, everyone has an opportunity in a means, whether or not it is a play-in workforce making the Finals or a workforce like Dallas, fifth seed, making the Finals.”
“Everyone has acquired an opportunity when you come collectively on the proper time. I do not assume there’s any overwhelming groups on the market. It offers us an opportunity, a workforce that did not make the playoffs final 12 months and ourselves, you already know, how far-off are we actually. At instances you say, ‘man, we’re fairly a methods away.’ The way in which issues are formed now, there is a push for parity, I believe we will flip issues round fairly shortly.”
The Boston Celtics, the Japanese Convention’s No. 1 seed with the perfect document within the league, finally have been topped champions after defeating the Dallas Mavericks, the Western Convention’s No. 5 seed, in 5 video games.
In 2023, it was the one-seed Denver Nuggets who defeated the eight-seed Miami Warmth.
Whereas prime seeds like Boston and Denver finally prevailed within the final two years, lower-seeded groups have been within the battle till the very finish.
Dunleavy is aware of that if the Warriors safe a spot within the match subsequent season, something is feasible.
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