The party began as soon as Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry and the Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 129-120 at Oracle Arena to clinch their second championship in three years Monday night. And they could thank Kevin Durant for that.
"I ain't got to say nothing", Durant said, as if that was all he had to say. "Nobody's comfortable in engaging in a conversation".
The Warriors won in 2015 before the Cavs made their historic comeback previous year.
Welts is often the public face of the team.
Not only did he claim his maiden National Basketball Association championship, but Durant was named Finals MVP following a string of displays that left Stephen Curry and LeBron James in his shadow.
Congratulations to the Warriors for their enormous win, and to Welts for helping to move the needle on acceptance within professional sports.
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"Steph definitely took a back seat to start the season until he realized we didn't need him to take a back seat, we need you to be aggressive as you're going to be", forward Draymond Green said. "I feel like we've grown from that".
"We learned from everything we've been through", Curry said during the trophy celebration. Before Game 4, there were grumbles as the Warriors breezed through Games 1 and 2 at home and stole Game 3 on the road to take a 3-0 lead. And these two teams are in the same situation again, with the Cavaliers down 3-1, heading to Oakland for Game 5.
Coach Steve Kerr cried.
". As we go into the talks and this whole process, which is obviously new for me, I will approach it to get the most out of it I can as an individual, as a player, and something that I've been working for for a very long time".
The group that recruited Durant in the Hamptons that day last summer has the same philosophy about winning more championships. "This is something that we want to continue to do, but for us to have these conversations that we had nearly a year ago and now being in this position, worth every shot we took in practice, fighting through injuries that he had this year, and it's an unbelievable feeling". "He had an fantastic series, just dominated", Kerr said. "I'm just so happy for him to be able to realise his goal and be my teammate".
"We put in everything we had, our heart, soul and sweat, everything", he said.
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