Klay Thompson might like the taste of victory cigars too much to go anywhere else come next summer. The Golden State Warriors followed winning three of the last four NBA championships by signing DeMarcus freaking Cousins for the midlevel exception, so we'll enter the 2018-19 season with A) the Dubs heavily favored to three-peat and B) everybody outside the Bay Area looking toward the horizon in search of something that will derail and dismantle the NBA's operating dynasty. The most frequently cited source of future fissures: the seeming impossibility, in a league subject to a salary cap and featuring an extremely punitive progressive luxury tax system, that the Warriors are going to be able to keep paying all of their stars.