Riley Curry tried to reassure her disconsolate dad after Game 7 loss

There wasn't much that anyone could've said to lift Steph Curry's spirits Sunday night, after the reigning two-time MVP turned in a lackluster performance in his team's Game 7 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals.

His three-year-old daughter, Riley, still did her damnedest.

"We lost," Curry, during his exit interview Monday, recalled telling his daughter after the game.

"I know," she said. "It's OK."

Whether he took that reassurance to heart is another matter. Curry shot 6-of-19 in the game, and 1-of-6 in the fourth quarter, missing a slew of difficult 3-pointers - "I personally settled ... when that's not what the possession called for," he confessed - as the Warriors went scoreless over the final four-and-a-half minutes of game time.

Less than a minute before that scoring drought began, with his team leading by a point, he made a costly and embarrassing blunder that became the emblem of his performance, flipping a completely unnecessary behind-the-back pass out of bounds.

All that would yet have been forgotten had the Warriors found a way to pull out a victory, but LeBron James had a date with destiny, and would not be denied.

In one fell swoop, the Warriors became the first team in NBA history to lose the Finals after holding a 3-1 series lead, saw their record-breaking season end without a title, and relinquished any claim they might've had to the mantle of greatest team in history. Try as Riley might to remind her dad that it's OK, that the world isn't ending, it may take some time for him to feel that way.

"I won't watch the film of the bad because it'll bring up too many bad memories," Curry said, when asked what he'll learn from the end-of-game collapse. "But understanding how I can control the game better and whether or not I'll be in that position again I know I'll be better."