Warriors shred the West en route to Finals, leaving a conference scrambling

Spread out through the country, and into exotic tropical locales, the NBA’s Western Conference power brokers mixed their vacations with a nagging thought Monday night: What the hell are we going to do about the Warriors?

Picture them as a group: James Harden, Russell Westbrook, Anthony Davis, Donovan Mitchell, Damian Lillard, San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich, Clippers consultant Jerry West. Toss in assorted owners and secondary stars. Do any of them have answers? Because the big question about the Warriors isn’t about what we’ve seen so far in these playoffs. It’s more like, how do you feel about six?

“I hope it doesn’t go unnoticed or unappreciated,” head coach Steve Kerr said after the Warriors’ four-game sweep of Portland sent them into the NBA Finals for the fifth straight year. He needn’t worry. What happened in Game 4 got a major notice from all of Golden State’s rivals. No Kevin Durant. No Andre Iguodala. No DeMarcus Cousins. After comeback wins from 17 and 18 points down, here was the clincher from another 17-point deficit. On the road.

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“The stuff that was happening to us, it always comes with a storybook ending,” Portland forward Al-Farouq Aminu told reporters after Game 4, referring to the Blazers’ magical run through the first two playoff rounds. “That’s why I thought we were going to win.

“We just ran into them dudes again.”

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