Golden State Warriors: Ranking the 2014-2019 Dynasty Teams

#3: 2017-18 Warriors

Offensively speaking, this team was magnificently efficient. They made over half of their shots, with a field goal percentage of 50.3 percent, a statistic almost unheard of nowadays.

Defensively speaking, however, they weren’t great. But they didn’t need to be. The Splash Brothers shot over 43 percent from the 3-point line, and the team’s chemistry only got better after the first real off-season to work with Kevin Durant.

Like the ‘18-’19 team, they didn’t obliterate teams on a nightly basis or rack up quite as many wins, but they won when they needed to. Coming off a historical 2017 playoff performance in which they lost only one game and won their second title in three years, the 17-18 Warriors were experienced and carried a confident swagger.

The absence of a big man to round out their starting five proved to be their biggest weakness; but even with a controversial first series that saw a Zaza Pachulia-induced injury to San Antonio Spurs’ star Kawhi Leonard, along with a seven-game WCF series against the Houston Rockets that nearly sent them home, the Warriors swept LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers and vanquished him to Los Angeles.

Unfortunately for the Warriors, however, this was and could be their last dynasty team for the foreseeable future.