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THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS
For someone who has done so much right throughout his legendary career, Stephen Curry couldn't have done more wrong in the final minute of Game 4:
With the Warriors up five, he missed a wide-open potential dagger 3-pointer.After a Kings miss, Curry called a timeout he didn't have (shades of Chris Webber), resulting in a technical and a turnover. Malik Monk made the ensuing free throw, and De'Aaron Fox buried a 3-pointer to cut the Kings' deficit to one.Then, with the chance to nearly run out the clock, Curry took (and missed) a midrange jumper with plenty of time on the shot clock.
But sometimes you don't have to be perfect. You just have to survive. And after Harrison Barnes missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer, Curry and the Warriors did just that with a 126-125 win that ties the series, 2-2.
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Outside of that final minute, Curry was terrific (32 points), and fellow backcourt starters Klay Thompson (26 points) and Jordan Poole (22 points) also carried the load offensively. Draymond Green -- coming off the bench after his Game 3 suspension -- struggled offensively but was his normal outstanding self defensively.
This matchup has been terrific, and with Curry and Fox (38 points) leading the way, it has the makings of a truly memorable series, writes our Colin Ward-Henninger.
Ward-Henninger: "The instant classic featured tremendous and timely performances up and down each roster, but the main characters -- the stars that took the game, and the series, from great to epic -- were Curry and Fox, demonstrating their myriad ethereal talents in a fourth-quarter tête-à-tête. ... With each figuring out what the defense is giving them over the course of the series, it's tantalizing to envision what they'll have in store for us in Game 5 of what has become one of the more entertaining NBA playoff series in recent memory."
