With his job complete - the Warriors leading by 27 with fewer than nine minutes remaining - Festus Ezeli checked out of the game and tried to settle near the end of the bench.
Marreese Speights redirected the backup center, pointing Ezeli to sit with Stephen Curry and Draymond Green.
Ezeli’s impactful 13 ½-minute performance in Wednesday’s Game 2 helped the Warriors tie the Thunder 1-1 in the Western Conference finals, and his fourth-quarter seating assignment was a reminder that he might be X-factor as important as the All-Stars for the remainder of the best-of-seven series.