BOSTON — It’s easy to forget: Before this postseason, Andrew Wiggins had experienced only one playoff series in his entire career. Basketball is basketball for someone who’s about to wrap up his eighth year in the NBA—and just played in his first All-Star Game—but the possession-to-possession intensity, quarter-to-quarter emotional swings and game-to-game stakes are new for Wiggins, whose battle-tested teammates can’t win these Finals without him.
Steph Curry could’ve bent a spoon with his mind on Friday night and it would’ve been an afterthought; his dazzling 43 points (on 7-for-14 shooting from three) were out of body.