'This group was maxed' - What comes next for Curry, Thompson, Green and the Warriors dynasty - ESPN

BY TIME AND distance the flight from San Francisco to Boston is the longest of any route in the NBA. Gate to gate, 2,704 miles and roughly 5 hours, 40 minutes. Plenty of time to sleep, watch game tape or a movie, depending on the priorities. But Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson didn't do any of those things last June as the Golden State Warriors flew across the country with a 3-2 lead over the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals.

«We sat at the same table,» Green recalled. «And [Warriors general manager] Bob Myers walked past us and he's like, 'You all still sit together?'»

This time last year, the trio had been together for 10 years. They were about to close out their fourth title. And they were still sitting together on the team plane for the longest flight in the NBA.

«I just said to them, 'Do you know how unusual it is for players to play together for a long time and want to hang out together?» Myers said. «But they still sat at this table after all these years. I don't think they even know how unique that is because they've never been anywhere else. But people don't stay together this long, and when they do, they tire of each other.»

There's a joke about long marriages and short conversations around the dinner table. But these Warriors have made it clear they not only want to stay together, they still have plenty to say.

The only sign of surrender after Friday's season-ending 122-101 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals came late in the fourth quarter, when Myers stopped Green from trying to check back into the game with an injured calf.

«This was not a championship group,» Green said. «But we have champions, and we're made up of champions.

And when you have that