Greetings Hoops Heads.

Welcome to Locked-on Warriors, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network.

It's Wednesday, May 30th.

I'm your host, Aliko Carter.

So I've had a day and a half to let it sink in.

The Warriors are back in the finals for the fourth straight year facing the Cleveland Cavaliers

for the fourth straight year. I remember when I was a kid in the 90s, early 2000s. It was never

hatred at the fact that the Warriors were losing. It was always like they were our lovable

misfits. I think part of that was that they scored so many points.

It was fun to watch them play basketball as they went through coaches, Eric Musselman, Mike Montgomery.

And it was fun because the NBA was fun. I mean, you don't play in a vacuum, you play other teams.

And they competed. They really did. Antoine Jameson,

you know, Gilbert Arenas for his short period of time, Jason Richardson. I mean, the dude

competed his way all the way to the number one three-point shooter on the Warriors team before

Stephen Curry, Clay Thompson came to the team.

He shot 2,0003s for the Warriors.

And then, of course, the Baron Davis acquisition changed everything.

Baron Davis so talented, so good at reading the defense and getting the ball where it

needs to go, so bullying down in the post, a really big guy for a small guy and not a bad three-point

shooter I believe he had a few seasons where he was down near 33 32 percent but he made them when

it counted he made some big big shots for the warriors and then the trade that brought in

stephen jackson and al harrington that was a special season i was a special season i big shots for the Warriors. And then the trade that brought in Stephen Jackson and Al Harrington,

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