Last season, the Golden State Warriors proudly trotted out their branding team and had them plaster Oracle Arena with banners that read “Strength in Numbers.”
At the beginning of last season, such a slogan for the year seemed somewhat laughable. The Warriors were trotting out a lineup of five all-stars at some point in the season. They would have their traditional bench pieces to eat up minutes of playoff basketball.
But that slogan eerily crept up on the Golden State Warriors, who hobbled their way through six games in the NBA Finals, even giving minutes to Andrew Bogut and Jonas Jerebko in the go-home showdown.