Warriors hold off Pelicans after blowing most of big lead

The Warriors looked every bit like a No. 1 seed should Saturday afternoon, opening the 2015 postseason with a dominating 106-99 victory that didn't get sketchy until the final minutes against the Pelicans in front of a sellout crowd at Oracle Arena.The Warriors led for the game's final 45½ minutes, were ahead by double digits for 24 consecutive minutes spanning the second and fourth quarters and were on top by as many as 25 points in easily taking Game 1 of the teams' best-of-seven, first-round series.The Warriors have home-court advantage throughout the playoffs, having compiled a franchise-record 67 wins during the regular season.[...] the Pelicans arrived in Oakland with confidence, having just snapped San Antonio's 11-game winning streak and feeling like they'd been playing do-or-die games for weeks in trying to secure the conference's final playoff berth.The Pelicans did a decent job of defending him at the three-point line (4-of-13), but they couldn't stop him anywhere else as he made 9 of 12 shots from inside the arc and scored 34 points.Draymond Green, who had 15 points and 12 rebounds, set a postseason career-high with seven assists, and Andrew Bogut, who had 12...