At its peak, he averaged 19.1 points and 42.4% three-point shooting percentage. In 2002, the general manager of the Warriors, Dunleavy!

At the 2002 NBA Draft, the Golden State Warriors selected Duke University star Mike Dunleavy (selected by the Warriors at the No. 3 pick). Yao Ming and Amare Stoudemire achieved their peak successive successes, but Dunleavy was unable to fulfill his expectations for "Tanhua". Although he also attended 82 games in a single season, averaged 19.1 points per game and contributed 42.4% three-point shooting percentage, he averaged only 5.7 points and 2.6 rebounds per game in the rookie season. In the summer of 2005, the Warriors signed a five-year, $44 million contract with his agent to keep him. But just as the team expected him to be "both offense and defense in the interior", he lost free throws and three-pointers in the Christmas game, booing the scene, becoming one of the most hated players of Warriors fans of all time.

In the five seasons of playing for the Warriors, he was a regular in the team's assists and three-pointers, but he failed to change the team's destiny and failed to win home respect; whether it was a free throw mistake when leading 22 points or a missed three-pointer at the open, he would be booed everywhere. After being traded in 2007, Dunleavy gradually completed his role transformation - from a "high-paying soy sauce center" to a behind-the-scenes scout. In 2018, he returned to the Warriors as a scout and began participating in draft and player assessment. In the 2019 draft, he suggested that the Warriors take the subsequent key rotation Pu'er at the 28th pick, so that the team can get a freshman in the back wave, and this decision is seen as his first step towards management.

In June 2023, the Warriors officially announced the appointment of Dunleavy as the "General Manager of Basketball Operations". He turned from the Tanhua Show, who averaged "only two points" per game, to become the brain behind the helm of the championship dynasty. Speaking of the fans' booing, he said without resentment: "The good and bad experiences are here, and returning to the Warriors is like going home." His frankness also made former critics full of expectations.

From the "Tanhua Shed Tears" in 2002 to the "Heading the Dynasty" in 2023, Mike Dunleavy has spent nearly twenty years writing a legend about patience, transformation and dream fulfillment. The Warriors' future needs this "most loved" veteran to lead the team to the top again.