Once upon a time, in a large metropolitan city on the East Coast, there lived a man named Willis Reed.
Reed, who played for a basketball team called the New York Knicks, hurt his knee during a tense playoff series against the Los Angeles Lakers. Against all odds and most medical advice, Reed came limping out of the locker room to lead …
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You don’t remember Willis Reed, do you? And if you do, you no longer care, right?
We’re wasting our time with this Reed character. Because on Thursday night in an unfairly maligned city on the shores of San Francisco Bay, a man named Baron Davis helped a team called the Golden State Warriors write a basketball story that beats anything you can find in a dusty old book.