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Warriors: Why the Larry O’Brien Trophy is coming back to the Bay in 2021

A rare occurrence for a sports franchise is to not only win a championship but sustain success. The Golden State Warriors were able to be the team to beat for five consecutive years.

Unfortunately, due to injuries to the Bay Area’s finest, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, the 2019-20 NBA season was a disaster, or was it a blessing in disguise?

In the 2019 NBA Finals against the Toronto Raptors, it was like the basketball gods were steering the Larry O’Brien Trophy away from the defending champs. Bad break after bad break throughout the entire series — but these bad breaks weren’t only affecting this playoff series.