Curry<\/a> is playing out of his mind. At 37, you\u2019d think he\u2019s shooting prowess would have left him. Instead, he\u2019s knocking down shots as if he\u2019s at the saloon in a gun battle for his life. But despite his incredible performances, no one thinks this Warriors team is for real. That includes Perkins.<\/p>\n\u201cThey\u2019re not beating OKC in a seven-game series. We know that. The Spurs would kick their a**. They\u2019re not beating them. They\u2019re not f***ing with the Nuggets either. So that\u2019s three teams right there, and they might get swept by two of those teams,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n
When Allie Clifton, on the same podcast, asked Perkins if the Warriors were just one piece away, the ex-Celtic and Thunder star dropped some more honesty. \u201cThey like two pieces away in my opinion. Now in a perfect world, if Dunleavy wants to make a splash, find a way to get Michael Porter Jr. and find a way to get Daniel Gafford.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s really the uncomfortable truth hovering over this version of the Warriors. Pride and experience can only carry them so far in a conference that\u2019s younger, deeper, and faster every night. Golden State still knows how to compete, how to steal wins, and how to make life miserable for teams that don\u2019t take them seriously, which matters more than people admit.<\/p>\n
But knowing what championship basketball looks like and actually having the pieces to play it are two very different things. Until the front office decides whether this is one last stand or the start of something new, the Warriors will keep living in that in-between space: dangerous enough to respect, but not quite dangerous enough to fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025\u201326 Golden State Warriors are reminiscent of a Clint Eastwood character in an old Western. Their best…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,479,164,4025,4024,313,2058,6,932,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-542260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golden-state-warriors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-golden-state","10":"tag-golden-state-warriors","11":"tag-goldenstate","12":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","13":"tag-jimmy-butler","14":"tag-kendrick-perkins","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-steph-curry","17":"tag-warriors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115909067494142498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}