SAN FRANCISCO – The thrills come in waves: a cascade of threes, a thunderstorm of slam dunks, bodies cutting, passes flying and Steph Curry doing Steph Curry things while joyful bedlam erupts around him. If you blurred the names on the jerseys and the shiny new digs, you’d swear you were in Oakland in 2017 instead of San Francisco in 2021.
The mighty Warriors of Golden State are back, same as they ever were and yet nothing like they’ve been. Kevin Durant is gone, Klay Thompson is in street clothes (for now), Shaun Livingston is retired and their No.