Shaun Livingston, weary of itinerant life, signing a friendly contract because most of the NBA didn't trust his body. Persuading four-time scoring champ Kevin Durant to join a roster that had in Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson the most explosive backcourt in NBA history. The Warriors and many of their fans have come to realize that their five-year run of supremacy was as at least as much luck and exquisite timing as it was ingenuity and financial sorcery.