The East: Still just the East.
Happily for the Warriors, they’re getting near the end of their long road that saw them go 73-9, then 15-5 in the playoffs including the three wins it took to escape after trailing the Thunder, 3-1.
Only the Warriors know how worn down they were and how close they came to going under, trailing by seven points in the last 5 minutes of Game 6 in Oklahoma City.
If Steph Curry has only been Steph Curry intermittently, there’s a reason.
He’s hurting ... even more than he acknowledged last week while withdrawing from the U.