Curry: Warriors have discussed 3-peat, aware of 'tremendous opportunity'

Five NBA teams have won three-plus championships in a row, with the last being the Los Angeles Lakers from 2000 through 2002.

The Golden State Warriors can become the sixth if they hoist the Larry O'Brien Trophy in 2018-19, and guard Stephen Curry recently said the team has talked about joining that exclusive club.

"We talk about the three-peat just because it's in front of us," Curry told ESPN's Nick Friedell. "I don't think that's something that's repeated every single day. But when we start the season, obviously we lay everything out on the table, what's at stake in terms of our expectations."

The Warriors have appeared in the Finals each of the last four years, winning three times (2015, 2017, and 2018). They enter this season as the odds-on favorites again after bolstering their already star-studded core with a recovering DeMarcus Cousins (Achilles), who signed a cheap one-year deal.

However, the road to a third-straight title is long and arduous. Curry knows he and his teammates can't look too far ahead, but says their ultimate goal is attainable with the proper execution.

"Yes, winning a championship is the goal," the two-time Most Valuable Player added. "How you get there and how you kind of break up that mission on a day-to-day, game-by-game, month-by-month basis is what makes us, I think, great. In terms of encouraging each other, being in tune with some of the things that might be thrown at you, whether it's injuries, whether it's a couple slumps on the court, playing-wise whatever the case is, we adapt really well and we don't stay down for too long.

"In terms of the overall goal, it just depends on the day in terms of how we communicate it. But yeah, we understand that winning a championship is attainable if we take care of our business, and doing it three years in a row is a tremendous opportunity for us that we should not be afraid to talk about and go after."