OK, so maybe he didn't know quite as early as our own Marc J. Spears or ESPN.com's Ethan Sherwood Strauss . but Leandro Barbosa knew before the rest of us: the Golden State Warriors were "gonna be championship." [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball] That, I'll have you know, is not a typo. It is a direct quote, taken warmly and accurately from Barbosa's postgame comments to CSN Bay Area's Rosalyn Gold-Onwude after the Warriors beat the Utah Jazz, 106-91 , on March 21: Sure, the "Brazilian Blur" might have Eurostepped past the King's English there in his excitement about both scoring a season-high 19 points and just how well his team was playing. (At that point, the Dubs had won five straight, with four of the five coming by at least 15 points.) But his irrepressible effervescence helped turn the slightly misspoken bit of audaciousness into something of a rallying cry for the Warriors, and after they scored a 105-97 win in Game 6 of the 2015 NBA Finals to eliminate the Cleveland Cavaliers and earn Golden State's first NBA championship in 40 years , Barbosa basked in the glow of his bang-on prognostication: Barbosa screaming "WE ARE!" is the kind...