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The Warriors’ Perfect Basketball

Golden State's dominance could grow stale in the future, but for now the team presents nightly masterpieces in pursuit of excellence.
Source: Ron Schwane / AP

Any seasoned watcher of the NBA knows that stockpiled talent brings its own drawbacks. Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal won three consecutive titles together for Los Angeles in the 2000s, but they sniped at each other in the media and eventually presented an ultimatum to the front office: Choose one. LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, when they joined forces in Miami in 2010, found that giving up some control to accommodate each other was not as simple as it sounded; they limped to a slow start in their

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