On Sunday Butler completed his sixth game with the Warriors and scored 18 points to help lead the Dubs to a 24-point win over the Dallas Mavericks. Afterwards, Green explained why he felt the urge to tell the world the Warriors were guaranteed champions— and it all comes back to the team's newest member.

They recognize the team’s higher ceiling since acquiring Jimmy Butler from Miami. A familiar sense of viability has returned. “I just know what it looks like,” Draymond Green told The Athletic