There have been several different ages in California basketball.

For a long time – give or take 50 years, minus the mid-70s – the Lakers dominated the state. Seventeen titles, a bundle of hall-of-famers, Wilt, West, Showtime, Kobe; they captivated the NBA.

After Kobe’s last title, however, it looked like the Clippers were ready to take the reins. Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, lobs and luxury suites, the Ballmer Clippers were the darlings of the league for what, in retrospect, was a millisecond, and were derailed by max contracts, Paul’s hamstring and, as it turns out, the Warriors.

For the last five years, the team in Oakland has owned its namesake Golden State with the most dominant five-year run by any team since the Shaq-Kobe Lakers from 1999 to 2004.

But what we’ve seen this year is one of the greatest combined eras in the history of the state: the possibility that all four teams make the playoffs, or at least finish above .500, which have never happened.

As the Warriors are currently in LA in the middle of games between the Clippers and Lakers, we see a new prospect of stability heading for the four teams on the Pacific. A golden age of basketball in the Golden State.

The Warriors, albeit with some roadblocks, are possibly the most stacked they have ever been – a scary prospect for the rest of the league – and at 32-14 are sitting pretty at the top of the West with Demarcus Cousins finally in the mix and their early-season obstacles hopefully behind them.

The Lakers, after years of post-Kobe pain, have drafted well enough and lured LeBron, and at 25-21 are now headed for contention (contingent on getting another All-NBA player), with an NBA championship in the near future a possible reality for the first time in almost a decade.

The Clippers are surprisingly competitive, even without any All-NBA guys, led by TobiasHarris, Lou Williams and rookie Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. At 24-21, they’re in the thick of the playoff race, with a chance at securing a home playoff series and a goal of adding at least one superstar this summer.

And finally, and most shockingly, the Kings, who have been the bane of the NBA’s existence for years, are 23-22, challenging contenders, and look to be in year one of what would be a great era for Sacramento basketball.

Surprisingly enough, Kings-Warriors is shaping up to be the rivalry that Lakers-Warriors was supposed to be, and that Clippers -Warriors at one time was (although the Warriors are 15-1 in the last five seasons against them).

California has had great years of ball, but never by all four teams.

Only four times before this year have three of the four teams either made the playoffs or finished above .500, and in two of those years the Kings were in Kansas City, and in one the Clippers were in Rochester.

In 2012-13, the Warriors, Clippers and Lakers all made it to the playoffs, but the Kings finished 28-54.

In 2005-06, the Lakers, Kings and Clippers all made the playoffs, but the Warriors finished 34-48 and were a year away from the We Believe team.

In 1978-79, the Lakers, Kings (who were in Kansas City) and Clippers all finished above .500, but the Clippers missed the postseason. They didn't finish above .500 again until 1991-92.

And in 1974-75, the Warriors, who won the championship, the Kings and the Clippers allmade the playoffs, and the Lakers were a year removed from losing Jerry West and Wilt

Chamberlain to retirement. That year, however, the Kings were in Kansas City, and the Clippers were the Buffalo Braves.

For some perspective, ten years ago, the three non-Lakers teams won a combined 65 games. The Lakers that season went 67-15 and won the NBA Finals over Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic.

Because of the Lakers runs of dominance (missing the playoffs only five times between 1948 and 2013), there has never been a year where none of the California teams have made the postseason, and it looks like there won’t be any time soon.