The end of the 2018-19 postseason was a tough pill to swallow for Draymond Green and the Golden State Warriors, who were largely glad there were no further injuries during a nightmare of maladies throughout their playoff run. After taking the Toronto Raptors to six games and losing at home after losing Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson in consecutive games, the defensive ace prompted his team would have won the title had Thompson stayed healthy the rest of the way.
“If Klay Thompson had been healthy, I 100 percent believe that we win the title last year,” Green told ESPN’s Sam Alipour in a recent episode of Hang Time. “We have no way of ever knowing, but I 100 percent believe that.”
There is reason to think Green could be right here, as the Warriors had a five-point lead in Game 6 before Thompson was forced to depart to the locker room after sinking his last two free throws with 2:22 left in the third quarter.
Had the Warriors won Game 6, they would be up against a Raptors team playing at home to decide it all, but the trio of Stephen Curry, Thompson, and Green had smoked their way through the Portland Trail Blazers in the Western Conference Finals and Golden State were the two-time defending champions — giving them more than just a puncher’s chance.
Thompson was having perhaps his best game of the postseason, scoring 30 points in 32 minutes before tearing his ACL. As Green said, there is no telling what could have happened, but Green isn’t too off-base by feeling his team had what it takes to bring a three-peat home.
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