Curry led the Warriors to the first of five straight NBA Finals in 2015, winning three championships and two MVPs in the process. The Warriors' business then exploded. The Chase Center had commitments for $2 billion in tickets and other contracts tied to the building before opening its doors, and the Warriors' international appeal increased, especially throughout China, the NBA's top overseas market. Within the Warriors organization, someone owes basketball executive Larry Riley, the man who drafted Curry, a thank-you card. "We went from being a team that when they were ready to play expected to lose, to a team that believed they had first had a chance to win and then expected to win," former team president Rick Welts told CNBC in 2019. "That's a gigantic shift in the culture of the Warriors."