Request by Curry a reminder he’s special

lineup for Tuesday’s contest.

Curry not entering Game 2 until there was 4:20 remaining in the first quarter could have been viewed as Kerr being too cute by half. After all, we’ve seen that kind of rotation management before.

Perhaps it was, but the record should be set straight: coming off the bench was Curry’s idea.

“He actually brought it up to me,” Kerr told 95.7.

The notion was that the Warriors played so well without Curry in Game 1 that him coming off the bench would help in replicating that performance — something Curry’s teammates said was critical ahead of Game 2 and, frankly, a bit tougher to do with Curry’s return. (After all, why try hard on defense when you have Stephen Curry on your team?)

A superstar — a two-time league MVP — asking to come off the bench in a playoff game?

This is just another example of how few peers — if any — Curry has in the league.

Juxtapose Curry’s humility (whether it was misguided or not is another conversation) with what is happening in Oklahoma City with Carmelo Anthony — a player who hasn’t won anything but one scoring title in his 15 years in the NBA — who in his season-ending interview was defiant to the point of delusion over his role on a underachieving team that he did little to help.