Rooting for a Loser that Becomes a Winner

You don't understand.  I mean, you do, if you are a lifelong LA Clippers, or Cleveland Browns or Chicago Cubs fan, but unless you are, then you don't know.

I have been a Golden State Warriors Fan since I was a teenager.  I grew up watching Mullin, and Hardaway and Richmond excite and raise the level of hope - only to watch it all ebb away because of Don Nelson and Chris Cohan and bad luck, and worse decision (Todd Fuller over Kobe Bryant!!!).

But now?  Today, the Warriors are not just the best team in the NBA, they don't just have the MVP and a cadre of great players and an amazing rookie coach - they actually have something far more important and precious.  They have predictable greatness. They simple don't make mistakes that can't be overcome. They do ALL the right things and none of the wrong ones.

I watch them - with all my previous 20 years of negative fan baggage - and they do nothing, NOTHING, to disappoint me.

It's like watching the class geek, the kid everyone picked on and ridiculed, come back during summer vacation from college and he's tall and good looking and cool, and has a super hot girlfriend and a new car.  But more, he's funny, and charismatic and harbors no ill will toward everyone who teased him - for the past 10 years!  He's simply evolved past everyone back home and he's so obviously better that all you can do is watch as he drives past in the sick red sports car with the super model girlfriend and nod your head in shocked admiration and wonder, "how did that happen.

That, ladies and gentlemen is the 2015 Golden State Warriors.

And you don't understand unless you've lived your life rooting for a team that was almost genetically predisposed to failure - only to see them now become world beaters.

It's incredible..