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How Warriors winning NBA-record 73 games hurt back-to-back title chances

Yahoo! Sports
Published August 23, 2019 at 2:45 PM
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The Warriors won an NBA-record 73 games three years ago, but a former team employee believes that historic run actually might have prohibited them from winning back-to-back league championships. "It probably hurt them in the end because they expended so much physical, mental and emotional energy getting to that state that they may be probably didn't have enough at the end," Lachlan Penfold, Golden State's head of physical performance and sports medicine in that 2015-16 season, said on the latest Habershow Podcast. Penfold arrived in 2015 as the Warriors were going through a unique coaching transition.

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