By Melissa Rohlin
FOX Sports NBA Writer
It was Fatherβs Day in 2016, and as Warriors general manager Bob Myers drove across the Bay Bridge to attend Game 7 of the NBA Finals, he had one distinct thought.
In just a few hours, he was either going to be elated or devastated.
It ended up being the latter.Β
The Warriors blew a 3-1 series lead to fall to the Cleveland Cavaliers, a shocking implosion for a team that had won an NBA-record 73 regular-season games.
Later that night, Myers returned home to a deafening quietude. In an alternate universe, he wouldβve been jumping around a locker room as champagne sprayed from all directions like a monsoon. But instead, he sat across the dinner table from his wife in silence.
“I had a grilled cheese sandwich, and I poured some whiskey,” Myers told FOX Sports. “When you win, you get 250 text messages. When you lose, you get about three β and they’re from your family.
“For me, losing is hard because I know the work I put into the job is time away from my three daughters, my wife. And so when you make all these sacrifices and come up short, the pain is like, ‘I worked really hard for this, and it didn’t happen.'”
The Warriors were in the ultimate pressure cooker when they reached the NBA Finals five straight seasons from 2015 to 2019, a roller-coaster ride that led them to three championships.
But being atop the league takes a toll.
That type of intensity is all-consuming. It’s like taking the Bar Exam to become a lawyer over and over again, but in front of tens of millions of people with every mistake being publicly ridiculed.
For that reason, the Warriors said their run needed to come to an end.
“You can’t run a marathon every single year or keep running them back-to-back without some price to pay,” Myers told FOX Sports.
After 2019, things crumbled for the Warriors. They missed the playoffs entirely in 2020 and 2021. It was a scary time for an organization that was accustomed to being at the top.
But in retrospect, it was deeply…
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