OAKLAND — The Warriors and Spurs played three times this season. The first was on opening night, a Spurs win in Oakland. The third was in late March, a Warriors win in San Antonio. The second was a mass rest that was better watched with a blindfold.
So there’s not a ton of head-to-head data to break down between these two Western Conference Finals competitors. But the two games that mattered, won by separate sides, serve as a mini blueprint for how you’d expect they’ll attack each other come Sunday afternoon.
So in the breakdown of this series — the X-factor, the key matchup, the prediction — let’s start with the actual, rare on-court interaction between these teams.