LOS ANGELES – For the first time since the playoffs in May, Steph Curry ran off screens for jumpers, Jimmy Butler drew fouls, Draymond Green made his perfect defensive rotations and Jonathan Kuminga flew through the air.

The months of speculation, the countless weeks of discourse, the need for endless hypotheticals mercifully came to an end.

Over the last week, the Warriors played real, actual basketball: three preseason games – two with the Lakers and one against Portland.

The veteran starters, plus newcomer Al Horford, played roughly 15 minutes a night in each of the first two games at Chase Center.

Coach Steve Kerr sat Curry, Butler, Horford and Moses Moody on Sunday in the team’s first road test of the preseason in Los Angeles.

Sweeping conclusions cannot be taken from such a smal

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