After the Cavaliers hammered the Warriors in Game 6 on Thursday night to tie the NBA Finals at 3-3, Golden State's record 73 regular-season victories and comparisons to the all-time great teams in NBA history seemed like a distant memory.
Klay Thompson was brutally honest when a reporter asked him if he would consider the season a failure if the Warriors lose Game 7 Monday night.
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"100 percent," Thompson said during his press conference. "It’s either win the whole thing or bust."
That might be a bit of an overstatement, but it's easy to understand Thompson's mindset. The Cavs' have now rallied from a 3-1 deficit to tie the series, winning the last two games in convincing fashion. And if the Warriors lose Monday night, it would be the most epic collapse in NBA Finals history. Thirty-two teams have held a 3-1 lead in the Finals; all of them went on to win the championship.