I would have liked to have seen a 3-peat. Injuries have taken their toll of the Warriors. All season long though, they have been up and down. They have looked deadly and other times...WTF? But its the 5th time they have been to the finals which is amazing. Not done since the Celtics?
I would have to look up the record of the Celtics to know for sure.
Warriors are overrated. They won 1 ring without Durant while Kyrie & Kevin Love were hurt and while they had the great David Lee coming off the bench to save the series.
And they did it in the tougher Western Conference (FAR tougher than the East for the early part of that 5-year run)...
But I'm glad they'll (likely) only win 3 of the 5. Any team with too much success usually turns me off pretty quickly. If the NBA became a one team league, what's the point of watching, unless you're from SF?
As for consecutive Conference titles, before the Raptors, CLE just won 4 straight, giving us four consecutive GS-CLE Finals, which got tedious...
before that was MIA winning four straight (meaning BronBron was in 8 straight, winning 3)
The Lakers recently hit 3 in a row, multiple times... 1987-1989, 2002-2004 and 2008-2010...
So did the Bulls... 1991-1993, and 1996-1998, winning all 6 titles
The Pistons also had a three-peat of Appearances, 1988-1990...
Then the Celtics did a four-peat, 1984-1987, while the Lakers did 7 of 8, 1982-1989
But you are correct, the last time anyone (other than LeBron) saw 5 Finals in a row was the Celtics, who did 10 in a row, and 12 of 13, from 1957-1969, winning all 12 titles (PHI won in 1967)... this while the Lakers appeared in 9 of 12, from 1962-1973, winning only one of the nine, in 1972.