Shaun Livingston will always remember Game 4 of the second round back in 2016. He went up for a late second-quarter dunk in Portland, made it, but thought he got hacked. No whistle.



So on the way back on defense, Livingston went searching for referee Scott Foster, streaking down the sideline. He laid into Foster, who gave Livingston the quick two-piece — technical, quick pause, technical — tossing him out of the game.



“It was worth it,” Livingston recalled on Monday. “That’s always going to be memorable.”



But that ejection — Livingston’s first in 10 years of NBA basketball — became a secondary story to the night’s main course. Livingston’s backup that night was Steph Curry. With Curry returning 15 days after suffering a Grade 1 MCL sprain in Houston during the first round, Steve Kerr and the Warriors training staff opted to bring him off the bench, limiting his playing...