The entire thing was a joke —a business-school buzzphrase applied to a sports dynasty clinging to galaxy-brained ideas in the hopes of maintaining previously unparalleled relevance.

The Two-Timeline Plan.

With it, the Golden State Warriors were trying to do what no one in the modern NBA has ever truly done: compete for a title with a core of thirty-somethings who are walking Hall of Famers, while simultaneously developing a young, high-drafted core to take over the franchise without skipping a beat.

It was never going to work. It was merely an idea of fanciful imagination, and frankly, a hilarious spectacle of hubris.

And yet, here we are, five games into the 2025-2026 season, and the Golden State Warriors are 4-1.

That itself isn’t unique; they’ve been 4-1 the past two seasons, as we

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