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OAKLAND – James Harden has stopped his barking and Doc Rivers squelched his braying.
The bettors are buying in and shelling out.
Three sweet weeks of statistical perfection, an 11-0 record, has persuaded the basketball universe to accept the Warriors as “legitimate” NBA champions and to submit to their unparalleled excellence.
They’re going to lose at some point, maybe this week, because that’s how the highest levels of competition are designed to work.