Winning one NBA title is hard. Winning two is even harder. But putting together three in a row, not once but twice, is something that very few teams in the league have attempted, let alone pulled off.

“What are you being so mean for, miss?” asks Humphrey Bogart’s character in “The African Queen.” “A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it’s only human nature.” Katharine Hepburn’s character ...