To the surprise of no one, the Golden State Warriors appear to be a worse team when Steph Curry is sidelined. And so their six-game road trip — which followed a sensational 6-1 home-stand — got off to an ugly start on Saturday, with Curry staying home to nurse his pelvic contusion while his teammates lost to the Atlanta Hawks 124-115.
The NBA may be a league where large leads are eliminated on a regular basis, but sometimes you simply dig yourself too big of a hole, and that’s exactly what the Warriors did.