SAN FRANCISCO — The day before Kevon Looney produced the best game of his professional career, he sat in a hallway at Chase Center in San Francisco, thinking about the way his role had changed since Golden State drafted him in 2015.
This was a team known for its smaller lineups; that’s how it had won a championship that year. At 6-foot-9, despite a wingspan of more than seven feet, Looney was considered undersized.
Looney chuckled at the thought, then he considered it a little bit more.
“Sometimes it feels like a slap in the face, when they’re like, ‘They don’t have any size,’” Looney said of the way people sometimes talk about Golden State.