SAN FRANCISCO – Jumping to conclusions from a 15-game sample size for the Warriors last season would have had people making NBA championship parade plans down Market Street again.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr doesn’t even start putting eggs in a basket until they’ve played 20 games and he can start honestly assessing his team. So, what really can be taken from the Warriors’ strong start through the first five games of the 2025-26 NBA season? The sample size is small, extremely small. Not small enough for some big statements to already have been made.

For the third consecutive season, the Warriors are 4-1 through their first five games. But in their first five games last season, they only played one team, the Los Angeles Clippers, that wound up making the NBA playoffs. The Warriors this seas

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