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In a five year period from to he averaged The emergence of forward Sarunas Marciulionis who averaged So the Owens trade was an attempt at getting an inside presence to match with Hardaway, Mullin, and Marciulionis at the expense of Richmond. Richmond got the last laugh, winning a title with the Lakers in his final NBA season. Sign in. Their coach preferred a frenetic pace, a motion offense and point quarters. Remind you of anyone? Nelson wanted to earn fans free pizza, which happened if his Warriors scored points.

How soon the uninitiated can forget. The Dubs played a highlight montage—all fast breaks and killer crossovers—on the Jumbotron and the crowd gave the trio a standing ovation. But when the threesome decamped to a suite later, the guard outside asked Hardaway for his pass. Apparently this guard never saw Hardaway dunk over Kareem or talk smack to Shaq. Lori Hoye does. That was the first season the NBA tracked statistics on computers, which meant some nights she felt like a bobblehead, head bouncing from court to computer, trying to keep up with the statistics Run TMC was accumulating.

Alas, Run TMC never realized the full extent of its potential greatness in those mildly successful yet wildly enthralling seasons. What they did do was carve out an odd, memorable and brief space in NBA history as a team celebrated for its style rather than its record—a rarity back then. To watch those Warriors and then watch these Warriors is to trace both the history of a franchise and the evolution of pro basketball.

Andrew D. The Warriors selected Richmond, the 6'5" scoring savant from Kansas State, with the fifth pick in the draft. He went home to Florida and spread the news. Golden State had taken him. Richmond knew of Mullin. Few could. Mullin was a 6'6" forward who could thread passes between defenders and score from anywhere on the court, if not win meter dashes.

He had spent three seasons with Golden State at that point, emerging as a point-per-game scorer. In —89, with only M and C, the Warriors won 43 games and a first-round playoff series. Mullin made his first All-Star team, averaging Hardaway considers all of this inside a booth at the radio station He found out later that Nelson had been telling the teams who picked above the Warriors that the guard from UTEP had bad knees.

He fell to Nellie with the 14th pick. He tells the hosts about the time he watched Mullin make every shot for two hours, scoring something like 80 points in one practice. Nelson wanted Hardaway to lead him? Most talkative too. The stories continue. How Hardaway would show up earlier and earlier every morning in an effort to beat Mullin to the Stairmaster, only to find the veteran had invariably finished his workout.

How Nelson ran them through 30 two-a-day practices before the season started, conditioning his team for the chaotic pace that he preferred they play.

Fans had a pretty good shot at pizza every night. Those Warriors, who gave up a whopping Run TMC knew right away that it could and would score at will, regardless of the players or scheme it was facing.

But it only looked effortless. A lot of work went into making it appear that way. In practice Nelson played the Warriors out of position. In that game, Mullin had a game-high 38 points, Hardaway had 32, and Richmond finished with The trio ended the season, averaging The team also finished second in scoring averaging In the trio broke up when Richmond was traded to the Sacramento Kings.

Good point, Mully. It does. That's quite a statement coming from a trio that won exactly one playoff series together, but to Mullin's point, there's no way for us to ever know.