IT'S A FEW hours after dusk on a Monday in early December, and the Golden State Warriors' gleaming spaceship, the Chase Center, is about to transform into a vibrating dance party.
The frenzy will be identical to those created by superstar Stephen Curry's one-man scoring blitzkriegs, but Curry will be swaying and dancing with everyone else for a key stretch of this particular soiree -- watching the unlikeliest of sources forge a time-and-place memory.
With a sellout crowd of 18,064 looking on, the onslaught begins with a whimper. There's an early foul, then a turnover, then a miss from deep, then a blocked layup.