The inevitable happened. The Golden State Warriors closed out the NBA Finals early Tuesday morning in five games with a 129-120 victory over a Cleveland Cavaliers team that hung around, but could not quite overcome. It is a second victory in three years for the Warriors, and the first in ten years for Kevin Durant. Last summer, Durant left (or, if you’d rather, “quit”) the Oklahoma City Thunder franchise that he had been with the previous nine seasons to join Golden State, fresh off the Warriors setting the NBA record for the best ever regular season record and overcoming a herculean effort from Durant’s own Thunder team in the Western Conference Finals. He couldn’t beat them, so he joined them. And it worked.