By Martin Rogers
FOX Sports Columnist
The evidence is all there, we’re just not fully conditioned to see it yet.
The Golden State Warriors are the toughest, most rugged, most ruthless, most unapologetic, angriest, snarliest, most in-your-face team left in these NBA playoffs.
That’s right, the Warriors.
The Warriors, the team that won all those championships with swiftness and smiles and shooting and small ball.
The Warriors, with nice guys like Stephen Curry who does things such as graduate from college in his spare time.
The Warriors, with Klay Thompson, who no one dislikes, and Andrew Wiggins, who has spent most of his career being regarded as soft.
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Yet after three years without so much as a sniff of the latter stages of playoff action, this postseason has brought out a mean streak in Golden State, which, coupled with their talent and form, has generated an apparently unstoppable force.
On Sunday, Wiggins gave an emphatic sign of the new times with a thunderous poster dunk on Luka Dončić, as the Warriors took a 3-0 lead over the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference finals. Curry hit a no-look 3 and then stuck his tongue out to celebrate it, sparking a bench-clearing exchange of views. Draymond Green yelled some NSFW delicacies in the direction of the Dallas players.
All in all, the Warriors put their foot on the Mavericks’ throats, having found their inner, well, Warrior.
They’re not playing around, not even a little bit. After the frustrations of that barren period and a widespread assumption that the team’s title window had slammed shut with Kevin Durant’s departure, now the opportunity has returned, with Curry aged 34, and Thompson and Green both 32.
Sure, there might not be many more chances like this. There wasn’t any kind of…
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