OAKLAND -- The Warriors plead ignorance to the general consensus that they can walk their way to the NBA Championship.
Never mind that they posted the best record, 67-15. Or have the most All-Stars, four. Or that the 15-1 record they posted over the final four weeks was tops in the league. Or that betting lines are fitting them for the crown.
They instead look at the playoffs, which for them begins Sunday at 12:30 against Portland, as a place where nothing is given. And nobody expresses that more emphatically than Kevin Durant.
“This is the NBA,” Durant said after the team’s final practice Saturday.