OAKLAND — Draymond Green already had both legs, thigh to ankle, swaddled in bags of ice as he sat in front of his locker when assistant athletic trainer Drew Yoder alerted him that he was second among three players for one-hour postgame massages.
“Put me last,” Green said, “and make it an hour and a half.”
A veteran move, to be sure, the last of many on the night that allowed Green and the top-seeded Golden State Warriors to stake a 1-0 lead in their first-round series against the eighth-seeded New Orleans Pelicans.
The final score, 106-99, did not reflect how foregone the outcome was from midway through the first quarter, in much the same way Pelicans star Anthony Davis’ 35 points do not accurately reflect the defensive job Green and the Warriors overall did on him.
Make no mistake: The Warriors respect The Brow.
But they do not fear it.
The highlights are sure to include one of Davis’ four blocked shots and at least one of his five dunks, but whatever concerns the Warriors had about their performance, how they defended Davis w ...
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