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June 17, 2025 by Hoops Hype

How much did you feel that people they felt counted you and your teammates out during the 2006-07 “We Believe” Golden State Warriors team run in the NBA Playoffs against the Dallas Mavericks? Jason Richardson: Aw man! We felt EVERY bit of that! Every bit of that, man! We had an UNBELIEVABLE fan base out there in Oakland. They were tired of losing; it was 13, 14 years without them going to the playoffs and they just had this energy about us that just… almost propelled us going into the playoffs, you know — making the playoffs first of all. And so, we understood that people counted us out. Everybody had something against them, you know? They were saying that Baron [Davis] was “injury prone”; Stack Jack (aka Stephen Jackson) was coming off the situation in Detroit with the ‘Malice in the Palace’; they had me as a good player that’s getting numbers on a bad team… There were just so many things that we had that we wanted to prove people wrong and I think we put all of that aside and we played for each other and the only thing that we wanted to do was like, Hey we gonna let you know that one: We’re a good team and we’re good players…

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