LOS ANGELES — Stephen Curry sat on the Warriors’ bench, legs aching and mind finally beginning to settle on the reality of the night — no trip to June, no pointing at a ring finger to a shell-shocked crowd.
Instead, it was the up-and-down roar of the Crypto.com Arena crowd finally able to celebrate a deep playoff run with their Los Angeles Lakers in a venue outside of a Disney-sanctioned bubble in 2020.
The champions ran out of time, out of bodies and out of answers in their series-ending, season-ending 122-101 Game 6 loss to the Lakers on Friday night.