After the Super Villains Café closed seven years ago, having sprouted from a vacant lot to become the most fabled house in American sports, the Warriors tried to use its still-elite bones to prolong while rebuilding. They failed. It was irrational to believe they could succeed, for no NBA powerhouse endures through multiple generations.What the Warriors did not do after the 2019 NBA Finals is demolish what they’d built. The bones buttressing their structure – Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Klay Thompson, Steve Kerr – and held up for three championships squeezed out a fourth three years later, before Thompson departed in the summer of 2024.The 2021-22 Warriors validated their status as members of the We’re Still Here Club. A name last befitting the 2013-14 San Antonio Spurs, an aging core supported by the excellence of 22-year-old Kawhi Leonard to win the 2014 Finals after a seven-year title gap.Curry, Golden State’s essential pillar, recognizes the sun is dropping across his distinguished career. At 38 but still tremendous, he acknowledges the dynasty is indeed fading – as Kerr accurately pointed out in December – but dismiss him at...