Warriors’ Game 7: Pressure of a season, packed into 1 contest: It might be the most magical phrase in sports, signifying athletic drama at its purest: Game 7. Win or go home, on both sides. That same urgency makes the NCAA Basketball Tournament wildly popular, but Game 7s acquire extra cachet as the culmination of a long, back-and-forth series, with sustained tension and crazy momentum swings. -- San Francisco Chronicle
Warriors’ Steve Kerr stresses simple plan for Game 7 crucible: Draymond Green bounced down the tunnel toward the visiting locker room at Chesapeake Energy Arena late Saturday night, bellowing a message for all of his teammates to hear. “Let’s do what they said we can’t do,” Green yelled at least three times. -- San Francisco Chronicle
Warriors’ biggest playoff wins since moving west: It’s hardly a chore to determine the Golden State Warriors' two greatest wins since they moved to the Bay Area in 1962. The championship-clinching wins in 1975 (Game 4 against Washington) and last year (Game 6 in Cleveland) stand alone. -- San Francisco Chronicle
Game 7 is Warriors' moment of truth: Game 7 needs no hype or introduction. The Warriors' historic season will either add another incredible chapter or conclude without reaching its ultimate goal when Golden State tips off against the Oklahoma City Thunder at 6 p.m. Monday. Klay Thompson's scintillating 41-point performance in Game 6 on Saturday -- "One of the great individual performances I think we've ever seen," coach Steve Kerr said -- set the stage for a showdown for the ages. -- Bay Area News Group
Steve Kerr will coach in his first Game 7: Steve Kerr was a part of three Game 7s as a player, experiencing both the highs and the lows. The Warriors coach went 2-1 and looks back longingly at those experiences. "I remember being nervous and excited," Kerr said Sunday. "I wish I could go back and play another one." -- Bay Area News Group
Steve Kerr doesn't expect to start Andre Iguodala: The Warriors went to Andre Iguodala to start the second half of their thrilling Game 6 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder. It was a rare deviation from the regular starting lineup, which normally features Harrison Barnes, but coach Steve Kerr isn't expecting to stick with it for Monday's decisive Game 7 of the Western Conference finals. -- Bay Area News Group
Harrison Barnes' illegal screen missed by officials: The NBA reported Sunday that Warrior forward Harrison Barnes set an illegal screen on Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook in Game 6 that officials incorrectly did not call with 23.7 seconds left and the Warriors leading 104-101. Stephen Curry later in the possession scored to give the Warriors a five-point lead with 14.3 seconds left. -- Bay Area News Group
Under Steve Kerr, Warriors have grown in this series: Steve Kerr hasn't been perfect in this titanic series, but he has been at his best, anyway -- adapting on the fly, trying things, junking things, adjusting, and conducting his team through the storms and celebrations. Defining statement of Kerr's coaching performance: The Warriors are a better, more flexible team now than they were when they started this series. -- San Jose Mercury News
Warriors contemplate role change for Iguodala in Game 7: Though Andre Iguodala’s numbers rarely impress, he has a way of coming off the bench and sprinkling himself over a game to accentuate any work the Warriors might be doing. That seems particularly true when the Warriors are doing good work, as they did in their Game 6 victory over Oklahoma City in the Western Conference Finals. -- CSN Bay Area
Thunder players face the hardest game of their basketball lives: The players know what awaits Monday night at Oracle Arena. The most difficult game of their basketball careers. “It's going to be a hard game,” said the all-NBA point guard. “If we thought (Game 6) was hard, Game 7's going to be even tougher.” Said his star teammate, the versatile forward who was second-team all-NBA, “It will be the hardest game of our lives.” That's not Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant talking. That's Steph Curry and Draymond Green. -- The Oklahoman
'Professional scorer' Kevin Durant tasked with solving professional defender Andre Iguodala as Game 7 looms: Kevin Durant has an earned offensive arrogance. He won a scoring title at age 21 and three more before his 26th birthday. So even after the roughest of performances — like, say, a 10-of-31 showing in a gut-wrenching Game 6 home loss with the NBA Finals on the line — Durant refuses to doubt himself publicly. -- The Oklahoman