Warriors' potential resurgence an exercise in patience and frustration, with gained perspective from pandemic

Golden State's return to glory may not come as quickly as some expect, but they'll savor every moment

SAN FRANCISCO -- If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it's to relish the banal. The day-to-day grind that was formerly met with apathy, even disgust, is now embraced as nostalgic and comforting.

At the peak of their powers, the Golden State Warriors were bombarded with so much attention that mandatory media sessions were no doubt viewed as a necessary chore rather than a welcome privilege.

That wasn't the case on Monday, when the Warriors spoke in the same room as reporters for the first time since the world as we knew it came to a halt in March of 2020. Golden State guard Jordan Poole remarked about how nice it was to field questions in person rather than through a screen. After his availability, forward Juan Toscano-Anderson burst back into the interview room and shouted, "say cheese," before snapping a photo with the kind of disposable camera you find at the check-out aisle of the drugstore -- a fitting metaphor for the ephemerality of moments that we used to take for granted. We've learned to treasure them, because we never know when they could be taken from us.