OAKLAND — Even without Stephen Curry, the Golden State Warriors aren't done—thanks partly to the increasingly fickle injury luck knocking down Western Conference stars left and right, but mostly to their fervent belief in themselves.
"Our confidence level with Steph is through the roof," Draymond Green said Tuesday. "Without Steph, it's still at the roof."
The Warriors face the Houston Rockets in a potentially (let's be serious: almost certainly) decisive Game 5 Wednesday. And even if they won't admit they're looking ahead, they have to be. Mostly because the Los Angeles Clippers announced Tuesday that Chris Paul and Blake Griffin will be out indefinitely and for the duration of the playoffs, respectively, which forces the view forward.
Paul and Griffin's injuries put the Clippers' first-round survival against the Portland Trail Blazers in serious doubt. And suddenly, improbably, miraculously, the Warriors' path to the conference finals looks nearly as smooth as it did before Curry went down with a MCL sprain. The real danger lurks in that penultimate stage—in the form of either the Ok ...
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