The Golden State Warriors' journey since Kevin Durant's departure in 2019 has been marked by extremes, from an unexpected championship in 2022 to a disappointing 2020 season plagued by injuries. Stephen Curry reflects on the team's 'two timelines' strategy, which aimed to rebuild while maintaining competitiveness.
dynasty—the halcyon days of 2017 and '18, when the team could do almost no wrong after signing forward Kevin Durant —their fans had to know the party couldn't last forever.Since Durant's departure after the 2019 season, Golden State has lurched between extremes. It has won a fourth title in 2022 and posted a 15–50 stinker in 2020, when guard Stephen Curry was injured. All the while, the newly moneyed Warriors have been unable to nail the transition to what's next.
'I think the postmortem on some of the two-timeline stuff is not great,' Curry told Keown. 'We picked James Wiseman, who's had a rough go. It's not his fault, but we had an opportunity when we were at the bottom of the standings and had the No. 2 pick, and picked Wise. We thought there was going to be a way to bridge that gap, and it didn't work out that way.' The Wiseman pick was meant to put the Warriors on 'two timelines'—an informal plan, in Keown's estimation, to 'to rebuild on the fly, or rebuild without the pain of rebuilding.' The plan has been largely unsuccessful—see Golden State's 18–17 record this season—but Golden State did squeeze the '22 title out of that tumultuous era. 'To hear the way people talk about the 2022 championship is still fascinating to me,' Curry said. 'Because the 'surprise championship' was a crowning achievement based on that team we had and what we'd been through since the '19 Finals.
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