The NBA season is well underway and the Golden State Warriors are the current leaders of the pack. They got off to a fantastic start and haven't looked back once. Nothing has been able to slow Stephen Curry and the Warriors down. Not even players in and out of the lineup because of health and safety protocols.

The Warriors have the best record in the NBA, which is surprising to many. Their record is 29-7 and Klay Thompson hasn't played a single game. The question around the league now is how good the Warriors will be when he's back.

The answer is fantastic. In fact, for many observers, with a healthy Thompson, the Warriors will be the clear favorite to win it all. The way the team has won games all year has been in various ways. The Warriors have even figured out how to win when Curry isn't playing well. A most recent example is their triumph over the Miami Heat on Monday, despite Curry only scoring a season-low nine points on an atrocious 3-of-17 shooting from the field.

The Warriors win as a squad and Thompson is the perfect teammate. Adding him to the team-oriented roster is a match made in heaven. You have crews like the Brooklyn Nets and Chicago Bulls in the Eastern Conference and the Phoenix Suns and Utah Jazz in the Western Conference, which the Thompson-less Warriors have already beaten. They all have things to figure out, unlike the Warriors. No team in the NBA has the chemistry Curry and company have, and Thompson will know exactly where he fits in.

There's only one person who can duplicate Thompson's shooting mastery. That person is Curry. The two of them together are instant magic. Even if Thompson is only 75% of what he was, it's enough for the Steve Kerr-mentored team to go the distance.

Rarely, a team with the best record in the NBA gets an All-Star caliber player midway through the season. When it does happen, you instantly consider the team the favorite to win the title. Thompson is that good and the world is about to see.