The Golden State Warriors had one of the best rosters in NBA history this year, winning the championship with four All-Stars - Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson - leading the way.

However, depending on how you feel about Thompson, Golden State could have gotten even better at the trade deadline.

That's because the Indiana Pacers reportedly offered four-time All-Star forward Paul George to the Warriors in exchange for Thompson, but the Warriors declined the offer.

Speaking with ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski on The Woj Pod on Thursday, George said even if both teams had agreed on the deal, he thinks the NBA would have stepped in and vetoed it, much like commissioner David Stern did when the then-New Orleans Hornets agreed to send star point guard Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers back in 2011:

"Yeah, I think that would have been the Chris Paul-to-LA situation, where they deny that trade," he said. "Yeah, I was aware of it. You know, I would’ve looked forward to it. Of just being in a good situation and a chance to compete for a championship. You know, it didn’t happen. It’s still fun to team up with a special talent and have a chance to compete against that team."

The league famously denied the CP3 trade for "basketball reasons," forcing the Hornets to eventually send their star point guard to the Los Angeles Clippers instead.

After the uproar following the CP3 incident, it's unlikely the league - especially now that Adam Silver has taken over for Stern as the commissioner - would make a mistake like that again, but it is fair to say that if PG-13 had gone to Golden State this year, it would have ruffled the feathers of several owners.

Obviously, the trade didn't materialize, and George had to watch as his potential new team went on to win the championship without him while the Pacers were swept by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the playoffs.

This offseason, George was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder in a surprising move that netted only Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis for the Pacers.

It's safe to say Indiana would have preferred to land Thompson over the package it received from OKC, but with George's stated desire to play for his hometown Lakers in the near future, his trade value wasn't what it could have been.

Still, it's fun to imagine what a Curry-George-Durant-Green foursome would have looked like for the Warriors this year.