This Warriors manifesto came from the heart, as always, but was not spoken out loud, and didn’t ever need to be.

Draymond Green thought about it, typed it up, sent it out, heard back from his teammates, and the Warriors emerged from the moment, standing and texting together, as always.

You want to know the true pulse of this extraordinary team and feel the true rhythm of this momentous season?

It’s all in their team group chat. It’s private, but it touches on every emotional and competitive connection among these 15 players.

A few days ago, Green decided he needed to clear the air — he told his teammates that as much as he and Stephen Curry wanted to drive toward a record 73 victories, he didn’t want them to feel pressured to think the same way and play these last few games if they were hurt or tired.

Green sent the group text, his teammates talked it over by tapping their cellphones, and the subject was decided: They were going for 73, within reason.

“Every once in a while, especially after that last game (the loss to Minnesota last Tuesday), we have to have a talk,” center Festus Ezeli said of the Green message.

“He said what he had to say, as one of the vocal guys of this team. He does a really good job of communicating. Everybody responded back, and we’re all moving in the same direction.”

So that was it. The whole thing was done via the group text — sent out from phone to phone.

To be clear: There were no words actually spoken in the locker room or anywhere?

“Yeah,” Ezeli said, shrugging as if the point was obvious. “He said it, and we responded.”

Nothing else was necessary after the group chat dealt with it.

Every new text is an instant players-only meeting — which makes them laugh, fire back, amplify, ponder, roar together, or all of these things at once.

The Warriors players give us only occasional glances at hints of the running conversation, but we see the results: A locker room that seems to operate like a brainy, bawdy collective organism.

It’s all in that group chat, which serves as the Warriors’ millennial nexus, their private sanctum, their comedy club, their vantage point and their preparation to take on the world.

Obviously, there are times when the Warriors players communicate by actually speaking to each other. This is not a locker room full of players quietly staring at their phones all day.

But they are drawn to their phones, and to the group chat, and to the collective.

It started several years ago — David Lee and Curry are the likeliest group-chat originators, though nobody I talked to could remember the exact details — bloomed during the players’ need to have a secure line of communication during the Mark Jackson controversy in 2013-14, and now serves as the Warriors’ constant touchstone.

“It’s everything,” Green said recently of the group chat. “From jokes to, ‘Hey somebody got dunked on …’

“Joking on each other. Dinnertime, where are we going to go? Everything is in the chat room.

“We talk about other people. Make fun of other people. Anything.”

Klay Thompson recently noted that Harrison Barnes was teased when a teammate found him on a local magazine cover and put it on the group chat.

Ezeli is a frequent target and lately has been zinging back.

“Just another way for us to always stay together,” Green said. “We’re in with the group chat all summer. It doesn’t stop just because, ‘All right, the season’s over.’ It’s all year-round.”

It never stops because the Warriors can’t let it.

“Coming back from the All-Star break, a couple days into the break, we’re all texting each other, we’re like, ‘Man, I really miss you guys.’ Other guys are, ‘I can’t wait to get back,’ ” Ezeli said.

“That’s a different nature of a team, a different kind of chemistry, I feel like, than any other team.”

The Warriors players all make fun of each other, of course, but also make sure to point out when they feel they have been attacked or slighted by outsiders.

Which has, of course, been especially timely this epic and oddly controversial season. And the group chat never sleeps.

“You can’t get anything by Draymond, usually,” Thompson said. “And (Andrew) Bogut’s always gassing stuff up. He finds everything on the Internet. Those two are the main culprits.”

To the great amusement of his teammates, Bogut offered a peek into the caustic tone of their communications back in February.

That’s when he tweeted out several joking responses to the criticisms the team had received from NBA greats such as Oscar Robertson and Isiah Thomas.

“My under 14 team in Melbourne Australia would have beat these @warriors 109-99,” Bogut posted. “Fat Jimmy would have locked down @StephenCurry30!!!!”

So of course Curry responded — on Twitter after, you would assume, he did the same on the group chat.

“Cmon man! Call fat jimmy up & tell him im looking for him,” Curry wrote on Twitter.

That’s the voice and spirit of the group chat, right there.

“All of us are pretty plugged in social media-wise,” Curry explained right after the exchange.

“We have a nice little group chat where we share all those little tidbits and information. It’s not one guy in particular; everybody kind of brings what they see to the forefront, which is fun. Keeps us all tight …

“There’s certain guys — like Bogut likes to be his sarcastic self and maybe stir the pot a little bit, which we love because he’s doing it in a very Bogut way.”

If there is something that needs to be said or a dumb joke that has to be repeated … it’s there, on the group chat, popping up on 15 phones all at once, usually several times a week.

Or more frequently than that, when there are things to be discussed.

“Different guys bring certain topics,” Green said.

“If it’s something dealing with planning or something, it’s probably usually Steph or myself. If it’s something funny, it’s probably coming from (Leandro) Barbosa or Andre (Iguodala). (Anderson) Varejao adds a lot of funny stuff. …

“If it’s breaking news, it’s probably coming from Bogut. If it’s something completely out of the blue, it’s probably coming from Klay. Just depends on what it is.”

It’s everything.

I first heard about the group chat in the days after Jackson was fired in May 2014 — Curry had publicly backed Jackson for weeks leading into the decision, and then things went a little silent.

But the players were talking on the group chat, and other places, and it’s not a wild extrapolation to envision Curry truly taking the reins as the team leader in those confusing days.

“Obviously we were communicating,” Green said. “We’re always going to communicate. I’m not sure if it was exactly the group message or not. But communicating, for sure.”

That’s when the group chat became a crucial element of the Warriors — it’s a place every player can go to listen to each other’s thoughts, share opinions, bounce off each other and know that nobody is going to violate the trust.

And it’s all perfect for the thoughtful, clever, silly, brotherly soul of this locker room.

“It’s nice about our team — no one really gets real sensitive,” Thompson said. “Sometimes guys will get dark for a little bit, but it won’t last that long.

“We’ll go about roasting each other; if we find a bad magazine cover or a picture on social media we’ll put it in the group chat and just roast each other.”

Which all connects to the Draymond Green late-season manifesto …

Whether the Warriors get to 73 victories or not, their leaders, empowered by coach Steve Kerr, wanted to make sure the entire locker room had a say in how they would approach it.

Green and Curry wanted it to come from them, from inside that group, and not from anybody outside the circle.

“We want to control the kind of the conversation and the attitude of what we’re doing,” Curry said of the Green text.

“Don’t let anybody, any questions that were being asked, pressures or expectations outside of our locker room control the temperament of the team.”

No, this group keeps control of all that themselves, quietly, sarcastically, powerfully and perpetually.

Read Tim Kawakami’s Talking Points blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami. Contact him at tkawakami@mercurynews.com or 408-920-5442. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/timkawakami.