For all their recent excellence and success, the NBA's
Golden State Warriors have developed something of a tedious
routine. They seem to pull punches during the regular season,
occasionally lose games that leave everyone scratching their heads,
and go through stretches of apparently disinterested and uninspired
basketball. Come play-off time, though, the engine revs and all
pistons are firing. For someone who played basketball, I can
understand the temptation. Basketball at their level is incredibly
taxing, the 82-game season is more than a marathon, and even the
NBA playoffs last for months. You must pace yourself.
The problem is that we're in an information age with
multiple sports news outlets looking to offer consumers 24/7/365
content. This week, that content hunger feasted on a brief video
clip of Warriors Coach Steve Kerr commenting sotto voce
about his displeasure with power forward Draymond Green. Green is a
"Swiss army knife" of a player whose versatility on
