There Is No Chance The Warriors Are The "Franchise Of The Decade" Ranging Across All Major Sports

(NBA.com) - The Golden State Warriors have been named ‘Franchise of the Decade’ across all professional sports teams by the Sports Business Journal/Daily, it was announced today. Over the last 10 years, the Warriors have demonstrated innovation, led the league and all professional sports in a variety of business categories and won three NBA Championships, in addition to building and opening Chase Center, the team’s new, state-of-the-art arena in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood.

In addition to the team’s three NBA titles (2015, 2017, 2018), and five-straight NBA Finals appearances (2015-2019), the first NBA team to do so since the Boston Celtics (1957-1966), Golden State boasts a current active sellout streak of 355 games. The team has sold out every home game each of the last six seasons (regular season and playoffs), a run that started during the 2011-2012 campaign. In addition, the Warriors have over 40,000 fans in the Dub Club, previously known as the Season Ticket Holder Priority Wait List.

I'm sorry, but nope. I know this is a fake award that shouldn't really matter, but there is no way this is correct. If we are opening up this award to all professional sports, you cannot say with a straight face that the Warriors have been the "franchise of the decade". For those who may not know, a decade is a 10 year period. If you want to say the Warriors have been the "franchise of the decade" in the NBA, you certainly have a case. It's not like you can just give it to whatever team LeBron plays on, but the confusing part about this has to be the fact that we're just pretending the first half of the decade didn't exist? I know there are a lot of new Warriors fans who started watching in 2014, but this really happened

I also regret to inform you that the Warriors are currently 5-23, and last time I checked we're still in this decade. Is that their fault? Nope, injuries suck but guess what they happen and a bunch of other teams in other professional sports had to deal with them. So basically we're giving the Warriors this nod because of an insane 5 year run. That doesn't really seem right when talking about an entire decade.

Now you may call me a homer, and you don't have to like it, but the answer is the New England Patriots. The reasoning used for the Warriors just doesn't stack up by comparison. Five Finals is an impressive streak, but is it more impressive than 8 straight Conference Finals appearances and 5 Super Bowl appearances (3 straight)? Who says yes to that answer given how hard it is to make the Super Bowl in football. This article then talked about the sellout streak of 6 straight seasons. Wow! Pretty sure the Patriots have been having sellouts for the last 25 years. That seems better. They haven't just been dominant for a stretch this decade, they've been there through basically the entire thing. You can hate them all you want but the proof is in the pudding

I will say though, I LOVE the pettiness of the Warriors for not including any trace of Kevin Durant in that short video. You know, he's only the reason you won 2 of those 3 titles which was used as a major reason you won this award, but you can't give him a shoutout when at the same time you have to find a way to get Jarrett Jack in there. That's beautiful. It's not like they only included guys still on the roster, you saw Iggy, you even saw Don Nelson who wasn't even the coach of this team at any point this decade! If you wanted to make it 2009-10 so he can be in it, well that Warriors team won 26 games so that probably isn't the best idea. To not have Durant included though is too perfect and you know it probably annoys him.

So while nobody can deny the recent dominance this franchise has had in the NBA, no chance are they the franchise of the decade.