The Warriors used to be the greatest show on hardwood.

Night after night, they were doing a genre-pushing, never-before-seen live improv set — a blur of movement and mouthguard chewing and some of the most ridiculous and beautiful basketball that went beyond the realm of even your wildest imaginations.

Man, were they fun.

But that is not a word I would use to describe this year’s Warriors.

No, these Warriors are doing something laboriously, painfully joyless.

What a slog.

And it appears poised to become even worse.

Steph Curry couldn’t finish Wednesday’s tough-watch 104-100 loss to the Rockets with what the Warriors have classified as a right quad contusion. The injury — which hampered Curry late and seemingly escalated as the fourth quarter reached its final minutes — is such to wh

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