Golden State Warriors: Complete grades for the 2019 NBA offseason

The Golden State Warriors have spent 5 seasons as the gold standard in the NBA, but have experienced some seismic shifts on their way back to San Francisco.

It was a bittersweet end to the Golden State Warriors‘ 47 seasons at the venerable Oracle Arena when they lost their final three games in that building to the Toronto Raptors en route to a six-game loss in the NBA Finals.

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The Warriors played 46 of the last 47 seasons at Oracle, all but the 1996-97 campaign while the former Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena was being renovated, and also played there for the 1966-67 season.

The sweet for Golden State was becoming just the second team in NBA history to reach five consecutive NBA Finals, joining the Boston Celtics dynasty club that made 10 straight Finals trips from 1957-66.

The bitter was failing to join the pantheon of franchises to win at least three consecutive titles, a group that includes the 1952-54 Minneapolis Lakers, the 1959-66 Celtics, the 1991-93 and 1996-98 Chicago Bulls and the 2000-02 Los Angeles Lakers.

But after a half-decade of being the hunted, the Warriors are likely to move back toward the pack in what shapes up to be an incredibly competitive Western Conference in 2019-20.

Gone are the two players in Kevin Durant (twice) and Andre Iguodala who captured Finals MVP honors after Golden State’s title runs in 2015, 2016 and 2018.

Durant opted to go to the Brooklyn Nets, with Iguodala dumped to the Memphis Grizzlies to create cap space for a sign-and-trade with Brooklyn.

Also gone are venerable backup point guard Shaun Livingston, who was waived on July 10 to create room for Klay Thompson‘s max extension, and valuable rotation players Jordan Bell, Quinn Cook, Jonas Jerebko, Damian Jones, Damion Lee, as well as former All-NBA big man DeMarcus Cousins.

Cousins left after one injury-shortened season to the Lakers’ star-powered tandem of LeBron James and Anthony Davis, as did Cook. Bell is off to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Lee and Jerebko, along with late-season addition Andrew Bogut, remain unsigned.

So as the Warriors move into the spanking-new Chase Arena to regularly play home games in San Francisco for the first time since 1970, the club will have some familiar faces to go with a bunch of new players.

After a five-year run of dominance that included a 322-88 regular-season record, a 77-28 playoff mark and three NBA titles, there is uncertainty surrounding the Golden State Warriors.

Here’s how their offseason grades out.