David Lee, left, who helps anchor the Warriors’ second unit, speaking with Stephen Curry, the All-Star Game’s top vote-getter, during Sunday’s game. Coach Steve Kerr said of his players, “They literally, to a man, put the team ahead of themselves.” Credit Ben Margot/Associated Press for The New York Times
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Golden State Warriors are having an awful lot of fun these days.
Stephen Curry, with his bag full of basketball tricks, received the most fan votes to start in next month’s N.B.A. All-Star Game. Klay Thompson obliterated a league record on Friday night by scoring 37 points in a single quarter against the Sacramento Kings. And the Warriors, who beat the Boston Celtics on Sunday, have the league’s best record, 36-6.
“Couldn’t imagine this,” Coach Steve Kerr said. “I knew we’d have a good team, but to be where we are right now is remarkable.”
Yet for all the Warriors’ headline-grabbing feats (and the list continues to grow), the team’s players and coaches cite something slightly more prosaic as a major cause for their success this season: the handiwork of their bench, which has fostered team chemistry while creating all kinds of problems for opponents.
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