Warriors revel in their championship on parade day: `I warned y'all'

After spending the last eight-plus months climbing towards the NBA's mountaintop, the Warriors got to bask in the sunshine at the summit Monday afternoon.

They've been reveling in their fourth championship in eight years all weekend, but Monday's parade through San Francisco gave them a setting to specifically do so.

Draymond Green was waiting for this moment, four years after the Warriors last hosted a parade like this one.

“I told y'all, `Don't let us win a (expletive) championship and clearly nobody could stop it. I warned y'all,” he said. “So I'm just going to continue to destroy people on Twitter, as I have been.”

The NBC Bay Area telecast didn't catch any of Green's swears -- there were multiple -- in time to keep them off the air.

Klay Thompson and Steph Curry followed Green and Andrew Wiggins on stage.

“Real mature, Draymond. This guy has the maturity level of a thirdgrader,” Thompson joked before giving Curry a hard time for the tears he shed at the end of Thursday night's clinching win in Boston.

“Who cries on a basketball court?” he asked Curry, who replied, “There's no crying in basketball.”

But Green took a moment to genuinely reflect, too, saying that so much “had to be aligned” for this specific Warriors team to win the title.

“What brings me the most joy in winning the championship, ever since I won my first one, is seeing the guys who win it the first time,” Green said. “In your journey, you always want that feeling back. That first time you do it, you want that feeling bad. And the reality is, you never get it again.”