the season of each Warriors player after the team's championship run. Of the six players left from the 2014-15 team that won Golden State's first NBA title in 40 years, four have been All-Stars (Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala), one is perhaps the league's best backup point guard (Shaun Livingston) and the other is a seldom-used reserve who has toiled in the Development League (James Michael McAdoo). A five-star recruit who went undrafted in 2014 after three uneven seasons at North Carolina, McAdoo is the ideal player to round out a 15-man roster. An easygoing Southerner, the man known to friends as "SwagAdoo" embraces his role, which is to encourage teammates, go hard in workouts and, above all else, stay ready. At 6-foot-9, 240 pounds, with a 7-2 wingspan, he is a power forward who can play center in smaller lineups. Stuck behind David West, Zaza Pachulia, JaVale McGee and, at times, even Anderson Varejao and Kevon Looney on the depth chart, McAdoo cracked the rotation this past season only if the game plan called for another big man capable of defending multiple positions. In one five-game stretch, McAdoo had 34 points on 15-for-22 shooting with...