When Stephen Curry pulled his mouthpiece out in the third quarter of the Warriors' 126-85 beatdown of the House Rockets in Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals and yelled into the Oracle Crowd, "This is my f--king house," it was not a declaration, but a reminder. Curry still has that MVP gear in him.
His going supernova had seemed almost commonplace in the pre-Kevin Durant days. By flying to the Hamptons and courting KD to the Bay in the summer of 2016, though, the two-time MVP was effectively trading his individual glory for a better shot at a Warriors dynasty.