“No Curry for these Indians,” says the sign by the television.

Surrounded by his family as they celebrate Eid decked out in “We The North” gear — including the youngest fan in the house in a red Raptors onesie — Ali Somji, 24, is the lone Golden State Warriors fan.

It once seemed like Somji would be torn between supporting his hometown team, who made it to the Finals against the odds, and that of his idol, Kevin Durant, but in the end the decision was easy. Warriors all the way.

Somji plays the same position as Durant on his basketball team in Markham.

“To me, he is a role model. He is inspirational,” he said. He is utterly confident he will see Durant finally play in Game 5 in Toronto.

During first-half play Wednesday night, Somji intently watched the screen, drowned out by the cheers of his family during a Raptors bucket.

“My prayers are for the Raptors to win,” said Anwer Somji, Ali’s dad. “It’s my time.”

Last week, Ali Somji waited outside the hotel where the Warriors were staying to cheer them on and hopefully meet Durant. He was a little frustrated by the heckling from the Raptors fans, but “to see the players walking the city. It’s unreal. It’s great to be part of this historic moment.”

He admits to feeling a little left out of the energy in the city. But it’s worth it to support Durant in what he hopes will be a third MVP title.

After the Raptors victory, Somji said he was disappointed but that the Raptors deserved to win.

He said he hopes the loss will motivate Durant to come back for Game 4, or at the latest Game 5 when “it will be a different story,” he said. “I really want see him out there on the court.”

He also still wants to see him in person — when the Warriors return to play in Toronto next week Somji be looking for Durant in the city whenever he can.

For Canadian Warriors fans, having the Raptors and their team in the Finals is the best possible matchup.

Another Golden State supporter is Saad Majid, who lives in Montreal and has been a diehard fan since he was 15. “We had bootleg satellite at the time so we could watch all these American channels. And we had CSN Bay Area which was the channel the Warriors played on and I would just watched games on that network.”

It snowballed from there. All of his basketball-loving friends had their teams, and his became the Warriors. He started watching every game and would travel by train to Toronto to see as many games as he could, once his parents would let him. Fifteen years later he was sitting at Game 2 of the NBA Finals, watching the Warriors narrowly win over the Raptors.

Majid, 29, wore a red Steph Curry jersey — less noticeable than the distinctive Warriors blue — and his Warriors hat and sweater and dealt with some mocking from the Raptors crowd — but it was worth it.

“I’ve been waiting for this forever, basically,” he said. It’s what he and his cousin talked about all the time since they first bought season tickets ten years ago. “Imagine if these two teams make the playoffs, it would be completely insane. It would be so close to home.”

Majid cheered for the Raptors until the Finals — he sees this is a huge victory for a team he’s been watching for more than a decade through many low points. Though being from Montreal and supporting the Canadiens, it feels odd to be cheering for a Toronto team, he said.

He won’t be watching the Finals games with his friends who are dedicated Raptors fans though — in past years his best friend, a Clippers fan, has been only sort-of jokingly banned from house.

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Majid’s wife is supporting the Raptors too — you have to support the Canadian team, she has declared — and they’ll be watching in different rooms.

Majid, whose licence plate says GSW, says he sometimes feels like the only Warriors fan outside the Bay Area. His twin brother is a Mavericks fan.

He hopes the basketball mania sweeping the country will mean more Canadian teams in the future in addition to the growing number of players coming out of the GTA and, more recently from Montreal. “I hope it happens, he said. “It would be like a dream come true for Montreal or for Vancouver to get another team.”