Family-

If you are like me, and sadly for all of you, many of you are more like me than you’d

care to admit, you felt a little like a bomb went off late into last night and maybe

even this morning. Needless to say, we are all disappointed that we didn’t hold

serve at home. However, I have a few thoughts to share with you that I think might

make the wait for our Game 5 victory in Oakland and our ultimate triumph in an

epic Game 7 a little more reality than dream.

Consider the two seasons we have spent together and think about all these things

We trade one player for 3, get our MVP back and go an NBA best 32–7 over the

next 39 games. During this stretch we ranked 1st in the NBA in winning percentage

(.821), first in scoring differential (10.6) and first in three-pointers made per game

(11.8).

We sweep our first round opponent and in Game 4, lose our starting power forward

for the remainder of the playoffs and most of the next 6 months.

We win the next round against Chicago despite starting down 2–1 while our

starting point guard is battling knee issues. He only plays 12 minutes in the Game

6 win.

We win one game because our assistant coaches save our head coach from calling

All-Stars. So what do we do...

We win the next 2 games to take a 2–1 lead over this same Warriors team.

Our new starting point guard, Delly, has to be taken to the hospital on a stretcher

after the G3 win because we can’t hydrate him fast enough to combat his muscles

that are shutting down from exhaustion.

The Warriors discover their best line-up as a desperation move to save their finals,

because we had beaten the piss out of them physically.

Wounded and battered, we eventually succumb but everyone is ready to run it

back healthy.

OFFSEASON

We lead the NBA’s Eastern Conference literally wire to wire.

We are the #1 seed in the EAST.

We sweep the first and second rounds of the NBA Playoffs.

We are the first team in EASTERN CONFERENCE HISTORY to start the Playoffs 10–

0.

Coach Lue becomes the first Head Coach in NBA history to start his career 10–0 in

the post season, passing Pat Riley who was 9–0.

We win our 17th straight Eastern Conference game in the Conference Finals,

becoming the first team in CONFERENCE HISTORY to do that.

We finish off Toronto in 6 games, winning Game 5 by a FRANCHISE POST SEASON

straight games. AND, we set the ALL-TIME NBA RECORD for threes in a game with

25 in Game 2 vs. the Hawks.

We enter the NBA FINALS with the LARGEST SCORING DIFFERENTIAL in EASTERN

CONFERENCE HISTORY (+177pts).

We win Game 3 by 30 points over a 73-win team. Becoming the first team in NBA

FINALS HISTORY to win by 30 after losing by 30 the game prior.

So, what does all this mean? It means more than you have ever dared to imagine,

but no more than we have always done. NO TEAM IN NBA HISTORY has ever come

back from down 3–1 in the NBA Finals. Rather than asking you the cliché: “Why not

us?” I would like to offer the following: