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TORONTO – The Warriors have a team full of unhealthy All-Stars.

The Warriors’ identity, though, does not hinge only on their star players. It also rests on having a championship fabric that can absorb many tugs without getting ripped.

The Warriors scored a 109-104 victory over the Toronto Raptors in Game 2 of the NBA Finals on Sunday, despite health problems involving Stephen Curry (undisclosed illness), Klay Thompson (hamstring pull), Kevon Looney (chest contusion) and Andre Iguodala (head injury). Oh yeah, and Kevin Durant missed his seventh consecutive game because of a strained right calf.

None of those injuries mattered. Iguodala’s 3 with 5.9 seconds left sent this series back to Oakland and tied at one game apiece. The Warriors also hold home-court advantage enter Game 3 on Wednesday at Oracle Arena.

“I like Steph. He’s a good dude. He’ a good guy to be around. He’s the only reason I like playing basketball,” Iguodala said. “I’ve never seen such a good person get backlash or whatever from his peers. They’re so jealous of what he has. I’ll do whatever it takes to protect his legacy.”

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That shouldn’t be surprising. All of the Warriors also do whatever it takes to protect their legacy. The Warriors face uncertainty on whether Durant, Thompson or Looney will play in Game 3, but the Warriors responded the same way they did when Durant initially injured his right calf in Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals on May 8. The Warriors closed out that game out before cementing a decisive Game 6. Why should it be any different amid the Warriors’ hopes to win their fourth NBA title in the past five years? Not only have the Warriors aligned their branding with their star players. They also have plastered a “Strength in Numbers” philosophy on billboards and posters.

“Our DNA shows up, so it’s not something you just throw out there to have nice shirts and give out to the crowd at Oracle and have all this marketing stuff,” Curry said. “It’s literally how we approach every day from training camp to June, how we support each other, how guys stay ready throughout the year.”

And boy did the Warriors stay ready to overcome any obstacle they faced in Game 2.

Kerr reported that Curry began Game 2 feeling dehydrated. He then missed his first six attempts. No matter. Curry often only needs one shot to change his game for the better. So after making a 26-foot 3 to cut the Raptors’ lead to 52-45 with 2:51 left in the first half, Curry closed out the quarter with six unanswered points. Suddenly, the Warriors trimmed the Raptors’ cushion to 59-54.

“Nothing’s going to keep you out from playing in the Finals game, if you can help it,” Curry said. “So I have plenty of time to recover before Game 3. I don’t really know what the cause was. It just didn’t feel right.”

Hence, Curry became ineffective in the third quarter (2-of-7) and in the fourth (scoreless). It did not help that Thompson left with 7:59 in the game a few minutes after landing awkwardly on a 3. All good. The Warriors opened the third quarter on an 18-0 run, while Toronto missed its first eight shots and committed four turnovers. The Warriors ended the third quarter outscoring the Raptors, 34-21, while holding them to a 31.8 percent clip.

“It was championship defense,” Kerr said. “That’s what it’s going to take.”

And so after Raptors forward Pascal Siakam had a post-season career-high 32 points on 14-of-17 shooting, Draymond Green lived up to his vow on limiting him further. In related news, Siakam finished with 12 points n a 5-of-18 clip That did not compromise the Warriors’ ability to make shots difficult for Kawhi Leonard, whose 34 points came on 8-of-20 shooting and a 16-of-16 mark from the free-throw line.

“I just tried to be more aggressive. I wanted to set a tone on him and not let him get in rhythm early. In saying that, I didn’t box-and-one him or chase him around the floor,” Green said. “I tried to do my job when I was on him and everybody else stepped in and did their job as well. I think getting back in transition was huge. But overall, we threw several different bodies at him. So I can’t be up here like, ‘Yeah, I took him out of the game.’ That’s garbage. That was a complete team effort.”

The Warriors showed a complete team effort in crunch time.

Green came close to his fifth straight trip-double with 17 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists. In his second game since returning from a left quadricep injury, DeMarcus Cousins came up big with 11 points, 10 rebounds and six assists in 28 minutes. Curry stormed toward the Raptors’ baseline to congratulate Quinn Cook for making 2 of his 3 three’s in the final period. Seldom-used center Andrew Bogut threw down lobs from Green as if they were competing for the 2015 NBA title all over again. And then there was Iguodala’s game-defining shot after missing the final 3:34 of the first half after his head landed on the floor following a Marc Gasol screen

“It’s just a mindset. Go play,” Iguodala said. “I’m not saying it’s smart. But you only have two weeks left, whatever the week is left and try to gut it out and see if you can help the team.”

Iguodala helped the team by ending up wide open after a tense series of events. Curry nearly lost the ball while stumbling around a double team. He recovered in time to throw a pass toward the top of the key. Shaun Livingston rushed to receive the pass — like a good NFL receiver, Green said — foiling a Toronto interception and a chance to tie. Livingston quickly found Iguodala alone on the wing. As Green said, “the way Shaun Livingston met that pass, I think that no one will write about that.”

Plenty will write about Iguodala making the dagger 3, though.

“It was kind of disrespectful to leave Andre open like that,” Curry said. “He has made some big shots.”

Kerr understood why Iguodala would be open. Curry was on the floor. Still, Iguodala prevailed despite a few obstacles. He had suffered a head injury. He had already been nursing pain with his left calf. He had gone a combined 0-of-11 from 3 in the past four playoff games he played. Just like when he went 5-of-8 from deep in a decisive Game 6 against Houston, Iguodala made the shot that mattered after deliberately took two seconds off the clock to minimize Toronto’s chance of a comeback.

No wonder Kerr called Iguodala “one of the smartest players I’ve ever been around.” He is one of the toughest, too.

“I got my head knocked off. And it kind of woke me up a little bit,” Iguodala said. “I got a little edge after that. You got to win the game. It’s a mindset that is really detrimental to the person. But when I get it sometimes, it comes in the play and it always comes out in a positive way.”

Somehow, the Warriors often come out in a positive way when they face a challenge.

They overcame a 2-1 deficit to beat the Memphis Grizzlies in the 2015 Western Conference semifinals. They beat the Oklahoma City Thunder in the 2016 Western Conference Finals after facing a 3-1 series deficit. Though the Warriors squandered their own 3-1 series lead to Cleveland in the Finals, they then signed Durant in the offseason. All of the Warriors’ All-Stars adjusted their roles to ensure two consecutive NBA titles.

This season, the Warriors overcame more issues. They survived the Green-Durant flareup. They absorbed long-term injuries to Curry (11 with sore left groin) and Green (13 with injured right toe). They experienced learning curves with their young and inconsistent bench. They won five playoff games without Durant. The Warriors overcame their first Game 1 loss in the Finals.

Are the Warriors at their best when challenged?

“I don’t know if that’s a good quality or a bad quality. It’s probably both,” Bogut said. “We’d like to get locked into Game 1 of the NBA Finals. I guess we sometimes need to be punched in the face before we punch back. We always do fin da way at the end of the day. So hopefully we continue to do that.”

Based on the Warriors’ track record, they might.

“We have been through everything together,” Kerr said beforehand. “There’s a really strong bond of faith and trust in one another. So the players trust the staff and vice versa. The players trust each other. There’s no finger-pointing.”

Instead, there is problem solving. So even if the Warriors no longer have as many healthy All-Stars, they still have their strong championship fabric. It hasn’t ripped yet.

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