Death, taxes and Wardell Stephen Curry II vs. The World. The Warriors played their second game since Jimmy Butler’s season-ending torn ACL Thursday night and suffered their second straight loss after winning four in a row for the first time this season. Curry couldn’t shake off the shock of Butler’s injury Tuesday night in the Warriors’ first game without him and scored just 16 points against the long, young and athletic defense of the Toronto Raptors with the entire game plan on him. That gave him three straight games without scoring 20 points. It had been more than four years since he had done so, dating back to January of 2022.Knowing the jolt the Warriors needed to get back on the winning track without Butler, Curry wasn’t about to keep his streak of scoring under 20 points alive. He scored 25 points in the second half alone after a 13-point first half to reach 38 points on the night. The result still was a 12-point loss to the Dallas Mavericks.“He’s obviously very capable, as he showed tonight,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said to reporters in Dallas. “Ironically, the non-Steph minutes were actually really good...