The Golden State Warriors‘ season might be over, but the greatness they represent is not.
It may be fair to characterize the team that remains in the Bay Area as the remnants of a dynasty. After all, the Dubs have missed the honest to goodness playoffs in three of the previous five seasons — two of which came via Play-In Tournament defeats and a third (2019-20) because Klay Thompson played zero games that season and Steph Curry appeared in just five, both due to injury.
However, it must be recognized that Golden State captured a title in between their postseason absences (2021-22,) and that the franchise still boasts one of the best 10 players, or so, in the NBA on its roster in Curry.
Curry reminded teammate Draymond Green of these facts with a powerful three-word message in the locker room at the Golden 1 Center on the evening of Monday, April 15, when their NorCal rival the Sacramento Kings ended the Warriors’ campaign for the playoffs by way of a 118-94 rout in the No. 9 vs. No. 10 NBA Play-In Tournament game in the Western Conference.
Green relayed what Curry told him via “The Draymond Green Show” podcast on Friday.
“Right after the game in the Kings locker room, I said, ‘I love you, bro.’ He’s like, ‘I love you, too. We ain’t done,’” Green recounted.
Curry’s “we ain’t done” comment struck Green, which he went on to explain.
“You right. Got it. Noted. Cool, we ain’t. You right,” Green continued. “So, to think that, like, we’ve done these things — I love it. And we not done.”