NEW ORLEANS — It sounds so simple and so completely terrifying for the rest of the league. Just put the Warriors’ best five players on the floor at the start of the game — with no true center and no proven limits — and let the mayhem begin immediately.



Except … did you know that the Warriors had never put their Hamptons 5 small-ball lineup on the floor as the starting unit until Sunday’s crucial Game 4 at Smoothie King Center?



“Did not know that,” Kevin Durant said with a look of genuine surprise after the lineup annihilated the Pelicans from the start on the way to the Warriors’ 118-92 victory in a crucial Game 4 to take a 3-1 series lead.



“Really?” Draymond Green said about an hour before the game, when I told him that the Durant-Draymond-Stephen Curry-Klay Thompson-Andre Iguodala quintet (the five players who met in the Hamptons in July 2016 during Durant’s free-agent process) had...