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The Warriors have won the NBA championship four times, including last season. Curry played a lot of very good matches in the play-off phase and of course the main round. And if someone says it was the best, no one will think they’re crazy. Phenomenal, amazing, unbelievable, excellent, brilliant – these are the words to describe his performance.
Curry broke his playoff scoring record as well as the NBA Game 7 record, which has a long tradition in American professional sports, including the NBA. Teams in the Knockout Stage compete to four wins, so the seventh game decides the promotion at 3-3. It is easy to guess that in such a meeting the pressure is enormous. In the earlier ones, one side still has a margin of error, and in this case the loser is out.
The previous record belonged to Kevin Durant from 2021, who set it playing for the Brooklyn Nets. He beat Dominique Wilkins’ 1988 record. Durant (now with the Phoenix Suns) needed overtime to reach 48 points, and the Nets lost to the Milwaukee Bucks.
Now the Warriors won in the hall of rivals and definitely. Curry made 20 of 38 field goals (although “only” 7 of 18 three-pointers), had 8 rebounds and 6 assists. “I wanted to be aggressive. (…) I wanted to look for shooting positions from the beginning, because when I do it, it usually works in our favor – he smiled in an interview after the meeting.
The second hero of the Warriors was Kevon Looney, who in addition to 11 points and 4 assists had, above all, as many as 21 rebounds. This is his third appearance with at least 20 rebounds during a series with the Kings. Thanks to the Curry-Looney double, the result was not affected by the weaker offensive performance of two other Warriors stars. Klay Thompson only made 4-of-19 from the field while Andrew Wiggins made 5-of-16.
The Kings are definitely disappointed, because after the regular round they were in third place, but it’s still a successful season for them. They returned to the playoffs after 17 years. No one has ever waited that long in NBA history. In the seventh game against the Warriors, De’Aaron Fox and Malik Monk performed less well, but Domantas Sabonis (22 points, 8 rebounds, 7 assists) played great.
The sixth-seeded Warriors will now face the Los Angeles Lakers and will have a floor advantage as the LA team was even lower in the standings (seventh). The first meeting in San Francisco is on Tuesday, May 2. Curry and Lakers leader LeBron James had fought in the league finals four times in a row between 2015 and 2018. The Warriors won three of them.
In another second-round tie in the West, the Denver Nuggets are 1-0 up against the Phoenix Suns. In the East, the Miami Heat took a 1-0 lead against the New York Knicks, and in the second pair, the Boston Celtics will clash with the Philadelphia 76ers.
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