- ABC News
- January 15, 2018
TORONTO -- The Golden State Warriors were playing their fifth game in eight days, their third game in four days and the second of a back-to-back set. All those fatigue-inducing circumstances looked pretty irrelevant for much of Saturday night, as the defending champions built a 27-point lead halftime lead over the Toronto Raptors at the Air Canada Centre. "We played a phenomenal first half, probably the best offensive half of basketball I can ever remember," said Warriors coach Steve Kerr. But then, in the second half -- and especially the fourth quarter -- the Raptors charged back, erasing that lead and bringing a once-dormant crowd to a fever pitch during the final seconds. And the Warriors during that span? They looked flat and somewhat out of sorts -- especially when Stephen Curry, who returned from a one-game absence because of a sprained right ankle, missed a pair of free throws in the final minutes. "It happens," Kerr said about Curry's missed...