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NBA Finals: Warriors have no margin for error vs. physical, tested Celtics

SAN FRANCISCO — What began as a Chase Center revival ended with its patrons feeling like money was taken from their pockets to a nonexistent building fund.

It’s an unfamiliar feeling to these Golden State Warriors, be it in this brand-spanking-new building or even the old heavenly one, to be victims of thievery in plain sight and apparently powerless to prevent being ransacked.

Usually Stephen Curry blitzes end up sending even the most determined squads cowering to their corners, but the Warriors haven’t encountered these Boston Celtics, who seemed determined not to repeatedly inflict wounds on themselves to begin the NBA Finals.