Sam Amick

Again, you knew that common sense tells you they're going to be even better than before, you know, having that championship under their belt and the experience that comes with it.

But to see what they've done without Jalen Williams for most of it, to be on pace to break the Warriors' regular season record for wins, it's just remarkable stuff.

And I know this is a little premature, but I feel like we're getting there.

potentially to this space where in terms of the league wide ramifications, you know, it's, it's very fair to say, man, is this a dynasty in the making?

And that is the type of thing that, you know, the last time we lived through that was with the warriors and, and you see potentially this chilling effect on the rest of the NBA in terms of team building.

And I know we're going to end up talking about trade stuff, but I wonder what,

you know, impact that is having already on the way that all these different teams are thinking?

Because if you are kind of quietly giving up hope that you can actually catch the thunder, then does that change the timeline of your strategy?

Does that change the way that you move?

It would make sense for the answer to be yes, because they've just been that good.

It is, but it's not.

It's funny because that word, you know, or that phrase, Dave, competitive balance.

Again, we heard that with the Warriors, right?

When they got Kevin Durant, it was unfair.

The free agency, you know, the cap spike that led to Kevin being able to sign with the Warriors.

That was an outlier.

And that was where people, I think, had a reasonable argument to say,

Well, this is, you know, unfair competitive balance.

This is not that.

This is just incredible management by Sam Presti and his front office staff to a degree where they are really the only team in the NBA that, again, through their own merit, has a cheat code in relation to this current salary cap situation.