LOS ANGELES — Insurance policies feel wasteful when you buy them.
And the better the policy, the more wasteful it seems.
But when something terrible happens, boy are you happy you bought one.
For the Warriors, DeMarcus Cousins tearing his left quad in Game 2 of their first-round playoff series Monday was that something terrible.
And Andrew Bogut is that insurance policy.
“This is the reason we signed him,” Stephen Curry said of Bogut. “We never wanted to talk about it and want to admit of the possibility. But it was to shore up that center position in case of injury.