With a first-year coach in Steve Kerr and a team lacking any player with NBA Finals experience, the Golden State Warriors began the season as unlikely title candidates. "We definitely are a great team, a team that should go down in history as one of the best teams from top to bottom," Warriors star guard Curry said. It's the first championship squad lacking a player with prior finals experience since the 1991 Chicago Bulls and Kerr became the first rookie coach of a champion since Pat Riley with the 1982 Los Angeles Lakers.