I really don't understand. If these people are really in the "basketball community" then they would know that few teams have had as detrimental a combination of mismanagement and bad luck as the warriors from 2000 (really 1993) to this year. I'd say only Portland comes close. I watched this team suffer injury after injury, watched them constantly get high draft picks and waste them on goofy white dudes, constantly watched inept execution of inept coaching plans. I watched this team let Gilbert Arenas, one of the best draft picks they had before Curry, just go away. I watched this team trade away players just as the team started building chemistry. I watched this team suffer terrible losses, many due to biased officiating (shytty team discount).
So if you're really a basketball fan (and not a stan of a team or player), then you should be able to appreciate watching a team turn around, get a decent break of luck, get decent management, get decent coaching, and succeed. You should be able to appreciate a team not named the Spurs, Lakers, Heat, Celtics winning.
I don't even care about the incipient hatred towards my team. I'm just confused at how anybody can claim the warriors are "lucky". We've had amazingly shytty luck for two decades. Opposing players were injured? How's that new? Lakers might not have won in 2000 if Timmy wasn't injured. What player of Duncan's caliber was missing from Opposing teams? Mike Conley :JJ: ? Patrick Beverley :JJ: ?
As a real basketball fan, I've noticed a pattern. Any time a team breaks into the championship club for the first time, there's always a movement to belittle the accomplishment. We remember the infamous Spurs * that Phil mentioned. We remember the "refs" bullshyt that Heat fans still hear about from 2006. Now it's the Warriors turn I suppose. How dare a non-cannon team win a championship.