Craziest thing about the 73–9 Warriors’ is the fact that their Big 3 Played 79+ Games Each
The continuity of that roster is the part that never gets enough attention. Curry played 79 games, Klay played 80, Draymond played 81. No load management, no prolonged setbacks, no scheduling triage. That meant Kerr could run the same primary actions every night across an 82-game sample. Repetition bred precision. Precision scaled into a season-long competitive edge that other contenders couldn’t replicate because their rotations kept destabilizing due to injuries or rest.
The record gets framed around shooting variance, small-ball, and the stylistic shift of the era. All real, but secondary. The foundational advantage was availability. A team with its highest-leverage players active for virtually the entire season accumulates more reps, more chemistry, and more data to solve its own problems internally. Over time that translates into consistent execution in both high and low leverage game states. That’s the actual mechanism behind 73 wins.
If you look at the NBA finals in the last 10 years, nearly team that has lost had a core player injured. To put it simply, availability is the best ability. I don’t think this point get stressed enough.