Kurtenbach: After another season of ‘what if’, the Warriors can’t afford caution

When you’ve been in the playoffs, playing “meaningful basketball” as often as the Warriors have, you’re bound to repeat history.

So, as the Warriors were run off the floor Wednesday, marking a sad, inglorious end to the 2024-25 season, I couldn’t help but be reminded of Game 6 of the 2023 Western Conference semifinals.

In that second-round series, like this one, the Warriors came in gassed and undermanned after playing a stressful and, frankly, unnecessary seven-game series.