When the buzzer sounded and the Cleveland Cavaliers leaped onto the court, when the yellow-shirted Warriors fans were abruptly silenced, when the reigning champions lost their ninth playoff game — equaling their number of regular-season losses — it was time to quickly process the entirety of the NBA Finals. "As you know, I blame myself for everything," Green said, sitting at the postgame podium still in his uniform. The NBA made a decision — controversial at least in the Bay Area — to suspend Green. [...] the Warriors had a 3-1 series lead and needed only one more victory to complete the greatest season in NBA history. The game was an epic battle with 20 lead changes, full of tension and drama. [...] for a while it looked like Green could make a remarkable transformation from series goat to series MVP. For a long stretch in the first half of Game 7, Green was the best player on the floor and the biggest difference maker. [...] the tale of the 2016 NBA Finals will likely not focus on the epic Game 7, but on the strains surrounding Game 5, when Green sat in a suite at the Oakland Coliseum and his team floundered without him, while James and Kyrie Irving each...