Kurtenbach: Klay Thompson is back in the Bay. The Warriors should make that permanent

The Warriors are irrelevant.

Look around the Western Conference. The Oklahoma City Thunder aren’t just coming; they are already the landlords. The Houston Rockets are terrifying. The Denver Nuggets remain a buzzsaw. Even the San Antonio Spurs, led by an alien disguised as a French teenager, have leapfrogged Golden State in the left-conference hierarchy.

The Warriors are no longer the hunters, nor are they the hunted. They are the background noise. They are the nostalgia act playing the side stage at the festival  ...