The Fairytale Continues...

Steph Curry holds up seven fingers after the Warriors win Game 6 in Oklahoma City before winning Game 7 at home.

The Warriors have been motivated all season to quiet naysayers. Last year the team's championship was considered fraudulent. ESPN analyst Skip Bayless even called it 'the most fortuitous Finals run by an eventual champion.' All of the starting point guards were hurt in each of the four series the Warriors played in including a completely injury ridden Cavaliers squad led by four-time MVP LeBron James. All of the negativity just would become the fuel to the fire of the champs.

The longest unbeaten streak in NBA history, the most road victories in NBA history, the best regular season record, the Coach of the Year, the first unanimous MVP and a long list of other notable accomplishments.

Everything changed for Golden State once the playoffs start. First two-time reigning MVP Steph Curry sprained his ankle during the first game of the team's first round series then he sprains his MCL in Game 3 and would be out of action for the next two weeks.

Golden State would not miss a step without the team's reigning MVP. Klay Thompson and Draymond Green played at another level which allowed Curry to rest and not risk re-injuring his MCL.

The MVP would return in the Western Conference Semifinals versus the Portland Trailblazers. He came off the bench in a pivotal Game 4 in Portland versus a Trailblazers squad who most analyst believed would not make the playoffs after losing four of the team's five starters to free agency last year. Curry struggled to find his shot but was forced to play heavy minutes in his return due to an uncharacteristic ejection by Shaun Livingston. Curry scored 13 points through three quarters looked fatigue and could not find his shot.

Curry didn't make a three-point shot until the waning minutes of the fourth quarter. The game went to overtime and Curry erupted. He scored 17 points including making five three-pointers which would be the most points in an overtime period in NBA history.

Curry and the rest of Golden State won Game 4 and dispatched of the Blazers in five games.

Golden State would face the team's biggest challenge in the playoffs in two years in Oklahoma City led by arguably two of the top five players in the world in Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook.

For the first time all year, the Warriors looked human. The team was staring at a (3-1) deficit versus a team who was coming off a decisive second round win over the second best regular season team in the league this year in the San Antonio Spurs.

People started to count out the Warriors. On the verge of being ridiculed for not getting to the Finals after winning the most regular season games in history. The Splash Bros would not be denied. The two would combine to score 187 points between the two in the final three games of the series to get past the Thunder and get to the NBA Finals.

All of this would not be possible without Thompson's historic Game 6 performance where he set the NBA record for made threes in a postseason game with 11. His 41 points helped the Warriors steal a game in Chesapeake Arena. A building where the team loss by a combined 52 in two previous trips to Oklahoma City in the series.

Thompson kept the game close with his silky smooth shooting until his Splash Bro could join the party. The team now faces a Cleveland Cavaliers squad in a rematch of last year's Finals.

Game 1 went to Golden State not because the Splash Bros rained threes on the Cavs. Golden State won because everyone not named Thompson or Curry seemed to score.

The story just keeps getting better and the next chapter should be just as intriguing as the rest of the story has been thus far.