Warriors force Game 7 with 115-107 loss

Steph Curry and his grotesquely swollen thumb lose the ball to Amen Thompson Friday night | Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Steve Kerr changed the starting lineup and it really sucked in a dispirited home loss

I watched Game 6 of the Golden State Warriors first-round series against the Houston Rockets at a bar in Oakland, surround by neighbors at the birthday party of a man I knew primarily because our dogs (both doodles) are friends. At one point, I looked across...