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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Anxious and eager to get started with his new team, Kevin Durant woke up extra early in the 7 oclock hour and then hit freeway traffic on the way to his first formal workday with the Warriors.I wasnt used to that in Oklahoma City, he said with a chuckle following his initial practice with Golden State.Welcome to the Bay Area, KD.Hes loving it so far. So is two-time reigning MVP Stephen Curry, asked several different ways after Day 1 how defenses might possibly defend a lineup led by him, Durant, Draymond Green, Klay Thompson and new center Zaza Pachulia. Not to mention all the playmakers coming off the bench for the NBA runner-ups last season to LeBron James and Cleveland.Everybody expects more from the Warriors now -- even after a record-setting season that ended with 73 wins but without another championship banner.As Curry & Co. are so used to by now, every team will bring its best to face star-studded Golden State, which is led by its baby-faced point guard who shattered his own record with 402 3-pointers last season and is looking for even more from himself.Weve just got to be ready for pretty much anything, Curry said. Its going to be a feeling-out process throughout the whole season. Last year, teams started playing us a little differently all the way up until like March. We have to adjust. ... I have the same mentality. I dont really think about any other expectations. I want to get better. I want to be better than I was last year, and thats going to be the same regardless if KD was here or not.The Warriors held a team dinner Monday night that was as much get-to-know-you as it was outlining the season ahead. Durant said they havent even discussed whos going to get more shots or minutes, its all about getting to know each other.When things immediately came together on the court, coach Steve Kerr was pleasantly surprised given both he and general manager Bob Myers expected some basketballs to fly every which way as all the superstars found their timing together.Durant fit in great on the first day, Kerr said.It went well, better than I thought, said Kerr, the reigning NBA Coach of the Year. We had a team dinner last night and I looked around and we had, I want to say, 12 or 13 new faces including the camp invites. Its a reminder that this is a much different team, much different season. Practice was really smooth, especially considering all the new faces.Curry knows this team will be different from the group that came off a championship a year ago, and he has been reminding himself that every day you have to learn a little something to reach the big prize at the end.Losing Game 7 still stings for the Warriors, who led the series 3-1 before squandering the advantage -- just as Durant and his former Thunder team did against the Warriors in the Western Conference finals.Thats life, thats all part of it, Kerr said.Oh, and speaking of Currys focus, he is completely unconcerned as he enters into a contract year. He insists his future, which Curry plans to be right where he is now, can wait until next summer.My answers not going to be any different all year, so keep asking me, I wont have a different one, he said. Im not going to let it distract me at all. I want to be back here. I like playing here, and thats it. The rest of it is about what were going to do this year. 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Bernier stopped 42 of 43 shots on Monday night, including all 22 in a hectic middle frame, his heroic performance propelling the Leafs toward an undue point in their final game before the Christmas break. SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The founder of a Rhode Island-based international sport institute ran the nonprofit as a personal piggybank, using it to pay for private school tuition, plastic surgery and other expenses, a prosecutor said Wednesday during the start of Dan Doyles embezzlement trial.Doyle, once a college basketball coach and boxing promoter for Sugar Ray Leonard, founded the Institute for International Sport in 1986 to bring young people together and advance peace through sports and the arts. Now, he is accused of 18 counts, including embezzlement and forgery.Doyle, 67, of West Hartford, Connecticut, has maintained his innocence. His lawyer, Michael Blanchard, said all the money was accounted for and the evidence would show many of the disputed expenses were authorized.If Mr. Doyle is an embezzler, hes probably the worst embezzler in the history of the world, he told jurors.Blanchard dropped the names of some of the high-profile people who had spoken at institute events over the years: former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Nobel Prize winners Desmond Tutu and Elie Wiesel.Assistant Attorney General Mark Trovato said the case was not an indictment of the institutes programs, which brought together children from around the world. He said some of the approximately 50 witnesses he planned to call would even describe Doyle as a visionary.But he said the institute, which was located on the campus of the University of Rhode Island, was run with no oversight. That, he said, allowed Doyle to use the nonprofits money to pay himself two salaries and unauthorized bonuses. He said Doyle also used the money to satisfy a pledge to hiis alma mater, Bates College, pay his childs tuition at Oberlin College and get reimbursement for his American Express card for expenses, like groceries and his daughters wedding rehearsal dinner.ddddddddddddTrovato said the institute planned to build a second building on the URI campus and received a quote of $466,500. Doyle then secured $1.2 million in grants from the Rhode Island legislature and from two philanthropists, Alan Shawn Feinstein and Alan Hassenfeld, former CEO of Hasbro Inc., all for the same building, he said.Years later, the building was never completed and Doyle could account for just $166,000 of the money, Trovato said.In addition, Doyle is accused of forgery and filing false documents for annual reports that carried signatures purportedly of Hassenfeld and Russell Hogg, former CEO of Mastercard. Trovato said a secretary signed them at Doyles direction.Doyles lawyer said Doyle made $1 million as a boxing promoter, most notably for the Leonard and Marvin Hagler bout in 1987. He said Doyle and his family invested hundreds of thousands of their own money to keep the institute afloat. At times, he could not take a salary and had over $200,000 in credit on his cards to pay for institute events, Blanchard said.For oversight, Doyle relied on Hogg, a longtime board member from the first meeting in Trump Tower in New York in 1987, Blanchard said. Hogg authorized expenses including reimbursement for tuition, he said.The real issue for you is intent, Blanchard told jurors. The evidence will show there is no criminal intent. ' ' '