Warriors to face Spurs in first round of playoffs

For a Warriors team chasing its third NBA title in four years, the regular season was a six-month prelude to the games that matter. Now, as it prepares to play San Antonio in the first round of the playoffs without Stephen Curry, Golden State stares down an important question: Can it turn on the proverbial switch now that the stakes are heightened? "I think there should always be a question in your mind if that switch is going to flip," Draymond Green said after the Warriors dropped their regular-season finale Tuesday, 119-79, to Utah. "As a basketball player, you know that it just doesn't work like that. Nonetheless, I think if anybody's capable of it, we are.