Before he kicked off another long NBA season with the Golden State Warriors' Media Day session on Monday, defending NBA champion Stephen Curry took some time out to share a few moments with a special fan embroiled in a fight more grueling than anything the league's reigning Most Valuable Player will face on the court. [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball] Earlier this year, doctors diagnosed a boy from Killen, Texas, named Taliq Davis with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma , or DIPG — a tumor near the base of his brain stem that causes the body's nervous system to lose function, prompts double vision, and makes chewing and swallowing more difficult, among other debilitating symptoms. The tumor is inoperable — DIPG is the same disease that struck Lauren Hill, the Mount St. Joseph University forward whose courage inspired millions before she succumbed to cancer this spring — and he was nine years old when doctors discovered it. Someone who heard about Taliq's diagnosis shared his story with a member of the Warriors' community relations staff; he counts the Dubs as his favorite team, and Curry as his favorite player. One month...