Deja vu is a funny thing. Sometimes it hits you when you least expect it. Sometimes you fear it’s return.
All last summer, even with Kevin Durant’s arrival, I couldn’t get a sinking feeling out of my stomach. For whatever else happened in those fateful nights in June, one floppy mistake stuck in my mind: Warriors coach Steve Kerr’s weird obsession with the dude with bouncing hair, his insistence on playing him in that crucial stretch in the third quarter of Game 7, felt to me like it cost us the title. True, former center Festus Ezeli’s minutes were far more damaging, ultimately.