TORONTO _ As the final seconds ticked off the clock in Game 2 of the NBA Finals at Scotiabank Arena, Kevin Durant emerged from the locker room. He walked slowly through the corridor to the end of the tunnel, followed by a hobbling Klay Thompson, where they greeted their teammates dancing off the court.
All season long the Warriors have used the motto, "Strength in Numbers," as a slogan and on some nights it just seemed like a cruel boast as the roster was assembled with All-Stars as bit parts willing to join in to try to snag a championship ring. But Sunday night it seemed like a cry for help. Already without Durant, who is working his way back from a strained calf muscle, his status for the remainder of the series still a mystery, the Warriors saw Kevon Looney sidelined with a left chest contusion and then lost Thompson to a pulled left hamstring.
Those were the hits that put key players out of action and don't include Stephen Curry, who had to return to the locker room in the first quarter, struggling with dehydration, or Andre Iguodala, who already was hobbled with a calf injury and took a blow to the back of the head on a blind screen in the first half and retreated to the locker room before returning to deliver the biggest shot of the game, a decisive 3-pointer with seven seconds remaining.
