Warriors’ all-2000s team: No, it’s not just the 2017 starters

This is the last in a series on the major Bay Area pro teams’ top performers of the last 25 years. The all-2000s 49ers, Sharks and Giants were unveiled over the last week.

If most of the players on this list celebrating the first 25 years of 21st-century Warriors basketball are from after 2010, that’s not a coincidence.

In the first 10 years of the millennium, the Warriors made one postseason run. They shuffled through five head coaches. They were a cult classic: a local club with...