The Warriors face a different kind of pressure from the pressure the Bucks and Knicks face. In Milwaukee, whether real or imagined, there\u2019s that existential threat of losing Antetokounmpo to a large-market team. In New York, there\u2019s the constant bombardment of \u201cWill the Knicks ever win another title?\u201d<\/p>\n
Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and Steve Kerr have nothing left to prove. After their four NBA titles together and the successes in the Olympics, their legacies are as secure as anyone\u2019s in the NBA right now, other than LeBron James\u2019. Heck, Jimmy Butler doesn\u2019t have much left to prove anymore, either, not after he sparked the Miami Heat to two Finals appearances.<\/p>\n
Golden State\u2019s pressure stems from its ticking career clocks. Curry will turn 38 before this season\u2019s playoffs begin. Green will be 36. Butler turned 36 last month. As effective as they still are, it\u2019s not reasonable to expect them to remain at their current high levels much longer. This spring won\u2019t be their last hope to win one more championship, but it probably will be their best remaining chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Warriors face a different kind of pressure from the pressure the Bucks and Knicks face. In Milwaukee,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-230809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}