INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Stephen Curry didn’t need this, didn’t have anything to prove. All those months Curry spent rehabbing a troublesome right knee, putting in the work, Draymond Green said, “and not getting results.” He didn’t need to muscle his way back into the Warriors’ lineup in the final four games of the season, didn’t need to force his body to be ready for the play-in tournament, didn’t need to be playing 36 minutes to keep Golden State’s faint hopes alive. Yet there was Curry, inside Intuit Dome on Wednesday, scoring 35 points against the Clippers, 27 in the second half, powering the Warriors to a 126–121 win.
“Everybody out there who thought Steph should have taken the rest of the year off,” said Steve Kerr, tapping his fist on a table. “This is what he does. This is who he is.”
