After last night’s Game 5, the word that Warriors president of basketball operations Bob Myers would address the media felt like one last stomach churn in a night full of them.
When Myers took the podium, choking back tears, to announce that Kevin Durant had suffered an Achilles injury, it was the period on a long, strange Game 5 — one that ended with Golden State making the last run and taking the series back to Oracle Arena down 3-2.
“Sports is, it’s people, sports is people,” said Myers. “I know Kevin takes a lot of hits sometimes, but he just wants to play basketball and right now he can’t.