“The Clippers punched us in the mouth and woke us up.”
Kevon Looney, decked out in one of his endlessly stylish fits that somehow flies under the radar of NBA fashion connoisseurs, calmly spoke those words outside the Golden State Warriors locker room after their series-clinching Game 6 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers.
“They showed us it’s not a cakewalk in the West,” he continued.
Two years ago, as the team blitzed through a weakened field, it was, indeed, a cakewalk.
Last year it wasn’t, and by the time the Warriors woke up, it was almost too late.