The reigning NBA champions face more than just stiff competition from a deep Western Conference. Some prominent players are up for extensions, and the cost of supporting two generations is mounting. Source Three months after directing the Golden State Warriors to one of the most unexpected NBA championship runs in recent memory, the team's president of basketball operations, Bob Myers, is sitting on a stage in a conference room at the Chase Center in the skyscrapers of San Francisco immediately following the team's first practise. Within the first few seconds of his first media availability of the season, he was bombarded with questions on how he plans to preserve his dynastic core beyond this season, rather than how the Warriors plan to defend their championship. The Warriors will bring back their entire starting lineup and four recent draught picks that make up their valued youthful core, but their future is less certain than it was before. Warriors' all-around forward An...