There are moments — off the court, on the links, away from the fiercest part of all this — when Stephen Curry and Joe Lacob allow themselves a bit of nostalgia and magic-memory overdrive.



Think of it: They’re disruptive, dynastic, multi-title giants now, but not long ago, the Warriors’ top figures were bit players on the scene and unsure when and how they’d ever make their mark. Back then, they were the ones looking up at the NBA mountaintop and now Curry, Lacob and the rest are at the peak and occasionally looking back.



“Steph puts it very well,” Lacob said recently. “He and I talk about this all the time when we play golf. We’ll say, ‘hey, did you really think this was happening?'”



As Lacob said that a few weeks ago, he stared out beyond me, fixed out on the long distance. But after a few seconds, he turned back to the diamond-encrusted present.



“There’s no way to know...