So much for the supposed toughest week of the Golden State Warriors' season.
The Warriors showed how much stock they put into external fears about their recent schedule by mowing through every challenge in dominant fashion, starting with a 35-point demolition of the reigning champions on Martin Luther King Day.
Last Monday's jaw-dropping rout of the Cleveland Cavaliers completed an interesting 360 turn for the Warriors. They put together a similarly dominant performance together in Cleveland on Martin Luther King Day in 2016, spent the next five months as the overwhelming favorites to repeat as champions, found a way to sign Kevin Durant to combat the ensuing six months of barbs and regret about blowing a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals .