It makes for convenient fodder that a few days after Draymond Green pronounced that there aren't any real championship contenders in the Eastern Conference -- in his opinion, of course -- the Warriors go on the road and get beat by Bucks .

But that's neither here nor there. Yes, all regular season games count the same, but nobody in their right mind is looking at a game in October and wondering about the impact that it will have in April. Thursday night was the first night of a 12-game stretch in which the Warriors will be the visitors in 10 of those contests, so a 120-110 loss on Oct. 30 is just not an honest contention barometer.

That said, Green took a direct shot at a particular team in the Eastern Conference, and further, two pretty clear individual players on that team. The t

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