Where ESPN ranks Warriors’ recent titles among champs since 1998

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The Warriors dynasty’s four NBA championships all were impressive in their own ways.

But how do Golden State’s recent title teams stack up against not just themselves, but all champions since the Chicago Bulls in 1998?

ESPN’s ​​Kevin Pelton recently ranked teams based on point differentials, and differentials from the regular season and postseason (adjusted based on schedule strength). Here is where the Warriors’ four title teams since 1998 ranked among the list of 25:

RS (regular season) point differential: +11.6

Adjusted (playoff) differential: +17.0

Golden State finished its 2017 NBA Finals run 16-1 — the best playoff record in league history — and only lost to the Cavaliers in the close-out Game 4 of the Finals. The Warriors finished the regular season 67-15, tied for the seventh-highest winning percentage ever.

“What happens when you take the core that won an NBA-record 73 games but not a championship (making the 2015-16 Warriors ineligible for this list) and add former MVP Kevin Durant? Predictably, the result was arguably the greatest team in league history and more clearly the best of the past quarter century,” Pelton wrote.

4. 2014-15 Golden State Warriors (+10.5)

RS point differential: +10.1

Adjusted PO differential: +11.0

This was the Warriors’ first title-winning team of the Stephen Curry era. Golden State’s core was young, as Curry was 28, Klay Thompson was 26, Draymond Green was 25 and Finals MVP Andre Iguodala was 32.

“Along with the 2016-17 Warriors, the 2014-15 team was the only other one since 1998 to outscore teams by double figures during the regular season and have a double-digit playoff differential after adjusting for opposition,” Pelton added.

6. 2017-18 Golden State Warriors (+10.0)

RS point differential: +6.0

Adjusted PO differential: +14.0

The Durant-led Warriors remained unfair during this playoff run, but James Harden and the Houston Rockets were at their peak, making matters difficult out west. Cleveland’s J.R. Smith made his infamous fourth-quarter clock error…

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Publish date : 2024-06-12 19:28:00

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