However, the Warriors were able to assemble more star-level players than any team in history for the 2016-17 season because of three fortuitous breaks:ġ. Steph Curry was on the last year of a four-year, $44M extension that he’d agreed to back when his ankle injuries were threatening his career and well before his emergence as a superstar.Ģ. Despite being an All-Star-level player, Andre Iguodala signed a team-friendly deal to join the Warriors around the same time Steph signed his extension.ģ. The NBA’s massive, multi-billion-dollar TV deal kicked in after the 2015-16 season, causing a salary cap spike for the summer of 2016 and allowing the Warriors the requisite salary space to sign another star player: Kevin Durant. ![]() With a salary cap, teams are typically limited to two, maybe three star-level players. The NBA orbits around its stars more than any other major professional sport in America. Here's why their my pick for best NBA team ever. They even won Yardbarker's mythical "Team of the Century" tournament. ![]() When the final buzzer sounded on the season, the Warriors were the best team in the league, the best team of the decade, the best team of the century … and, in my opinion, the best team in NBA history.
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