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NBA playoffs 2022: These Golden State Warriors aren't surrendering their dynastic perch just yet

Memorable isn't really the right word.

Painful, frustrating, demoralizing. That's closer to how Draymond Green would describe the two seasons in between the Golden State Warriors' last NBA Finals appearance in 2019 and this season's run to within one game of a return to the championship series after Sunday's 109-100 win against the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference finals.

But there is one memory from the past two seasons that keeps coming back.

"None of these people really removed us from this space," Green told ESPN's Ohm Youngmisuk of the team missing the playoffs the previous two seasons.