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What’s good, family. It’s Sykes, back again for today’s edition of Layup Lines.
The Warriors are NBA champions. They’ve reached the mountaintop yet again and showed off quite a bit while doing it.
Steph Curry pointed at his ring finger in the middle of the game. Draymond Green wore black to the Celtics’ “funeral” in Game 6. Klay Thompson is throwing barbs at players who don’t have anything to do with anything. The Dubs are back, man.
Just like that, the NBA’s regular season has ended. But there’s still plenty of drama left to unfold with the league. Almost nothing is certain with the league’s offseason. There are a ton of mysteries still left to solve.
Don’t look now, but the NBA draft is in just a week. There’s a ton of mystery outside of the top 3 picks that will be Jabari Smith, Chet Holmgren, and Paolo Banchero in some sort of order.
