How They Got Here • Golden State : By knocking off both the Houston Rockets and Portland Trail Blazers in five-game sets that featured similar scripts: stomp through a couple of games, come up short in a Game 3 without injured back-to-back NBA Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry, author extremely impressive Game 4 wins keyed by monster post-halftime runs , and take care of business in Game 5 to advance. (One very important difference: the Blazers earned a ton of respect by going down swinging, while the Rockets largely laid down and died .) In Curry's absence, Klay Thompson (who's averaging 27.2 points per game in the playoffs and shooting 47.5 percent from 3-point land on 9.9 attempts per game) and Draymond Green (17.7 points, 10.4 rebounds, 7.0 assists, 2.3 blocks per game in the postseason, a line nobody's ever put up before ) reminded everybody just how awesome they are and how big a load they're capable of shouldering, with or without Steph. Now, after missing four games with a sprained knee ligament, Curry is back — like, seriously, staggeringly back. The Warriors were the best regular-season team ever, and they've outscored their opposition by nearly 15 points per...