It’s crazy to think about how long ago it really was that the Golden State Warriors had a sustained period of success.
Yeah, there was the jolt of We Believe adrenaline and long before that there was Chris Webber’s wild rookie year, but sustained success has been hard to come by the Warriors franchise.
For the uninitiated, you really have to go back 30 years to when Don Nelson announced that he was going to coach the Warriors beginning with the 1988-89 season. Nelson drafted Mitch Richmond, who’d win Rookie of the Year, and Tim Hardaway in the first round of the ‘88 and ‘89 draft.