SAN FRANCISCO -- At one point early in the playoffs, Golden State Warriors general manager Bob Myers and head coach Steve Kerr had a conversation about how they didn't feel their team was a championship team. They saw themselves as a Western Conference Finals team, maybe, but compared with the title teams they'd worked with in the past, this one didn't have the obvious markers of a champion.
But then the playoffs started, and with each round, the Warriors got better and better.
"As we went, I think Bob and I both kind of shifted our opinion," Kerr said.