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No championship team has dealt with the word “luck” buzzing around their heads like a gnat as the Warriors have. The topic has been discussed and debated to death. Championship teams are always fortunate. Inherently, to win the title you have to avoid bad luck. Humans just aren’t impervious to fate. The Warriors, as I’ve written before, have lived at the nexus of fortunate and performance, benefiting from the tremendous plan and execution while also avoiding the kinds of terrible swings of misfortunate that have befallen other great teams.

And then Sunday.

You can point fingers all you want, from Steve Kerr playing Curry on a bad ankle (like that had something to do with it — spoiler alert: it didn’t) to the ball boys for not cleaning up a sweat spot that had developed to the officials who didn’t clean it up after Curry complained. You can rage to the heavens or the Basketball Gods or James Harden’s beard but in the end, what resulted in Stephen Curry suffering a sprained knee in Game 4 vs. the Houston Rockets was just bad luck.

The exact kind of bad luck that they avoided all last season, that everyone from Doc Rivers to LeBron James commented on. James said that the Warriors were the “healthiest team” he’d ever seen before this season. That, of course, was in contrast to the Cavaliers, who lost both Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love during their Finals run last year, eventually running out of firepower …

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