Why Myers believes keeping successful teams intact is so hard

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Bob Myers knows it is difficult to win an NBA championship, but he states that there is a challenge even more complex.

Speaking with reporters Sunday following Jordan Poole and Andrew Wiggins' contract extensions, the Warriors' general manager shared why keeping a core intact is the most challenging aspect of sports.

"I always tell people the hardest thing in this business and in professional sports now is keeping something together," Myers said. "I don't know that people quite understand how hard it is to sustain success in the NBA and professional sports now."

Constructing and maintaining a successful team and formula is already tricky in and of itself. Adding a very short window of success makes sustaining success an almost nigh-impossible task, hence why the Warriors are lauded for their ability to keep their vital pieces together. 

The Warriors' core of Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green have been together for over 10 years and is currently the longest-tenured trio in the NBA. The three have reached incredible peaks (winning four NBA titles in eight years) and bounced back from the lowest of pits (losing the 2016 NBA Finals).

Despite the ebbs and flows of their careers, Curry, Thompson and Green are the catalysts for the Warriors' dynasty, even if Myers is hesitant to call Golden State's success a dynasty.

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Myers added that with the NBA in the "Player Empowerment" era -- wherein players have unprecedented freedom to decide their own fates -- that makes keeping a successful core together that much more difficult. 

"It's literally the hardest thing in the world to keep a group of the same people functioning at a high level with attention on the players, with the money, with shorter contracts in the NBA, with players -- rightly -- seeking the best thing for them and moving in free agency or via trades," Myers continued. 

Lastly, Myers notes that although relationships within the Warriors have been "tested," Golden State tries its best to protect the fabric of its culture to keep the core intact.

"It 100% takes hits, just like any relationship does and you test and you see if you can figure out a way through that stuff," he concluded. 

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Now that Poole and Wiggins' contract extensions are official, it appears the Warriors were able to find a way through the noise stemming from the Green-Poole altercation.

With Curry, Poole, Thompson, and Wiggins under contract for at least the next two years, Golden State's core is staying intact for the foreseeable future. 

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