Golden State Warriors completed a clean sweep crushing the Trail Blazers 128-103 to win their Western Conference first-round series 4-0.
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SB Nation reported that the five-time National Basketball Association champion player and one-time National Basketball Association champion coach is “expected to miss more than just Game 3” of the Warriors first round series with the Portland Trail Blazers.
Acting head coach Mike Brown is an experienced hand, and he should be competent enough to guide the Warriors through the first round without incident.
Golden State pushed the margin to 33 points in the second half.
Durant got things rolling with a pull-up three-pointer and followed up with a transition dunk, quickly allaying any fears his calf might still be troubling him.
Draymond Green scored 21 points and Klay Thompson added 18 for the Warriors, who shot 53.5 percent from the field, including 17 of 29 (58.6 percent) from 3-point range.
For Golden State, it’s all coming so easily, while getting so hard in other respects.
The official and confirmed Lineups will be updated shortly, The above lineups are projected Lineups of the Game 4 between Warriors vs. Blazers.
The Warriors defeated the Blazers in five games in the second round last season, en route to the NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Matt Barnes and Shaun Livingston have been out due to injury as well.
The Warriors scored the first 14 points of the game and were up 28-5 six minutes into the contest. On Apr. 22nd, The Warriors held on to beat the Blazers 119-113. Norman Powell, making his second start of the series, produced 25 points to help the Raptors move within one win of reaching the second round, with game six in Milwaukee. He was ruled out of Monday’s game. They put up an easy 45 points in the first 12 minutes and went into quarter two with a 23-point lead.
Damian Lillard scored 34 on 12 of 24 shooting, the only Portland starter to score in double figures.
Can the Golden State Warriors reach the finals? However, he was at the Moda Center for the game.
The two-time All-Star is proud of the team’s push down the stretch of the regular season, but he said he’s not satisfied.
It is unclear how long he might be out.
The former Chicago Bulls point guard missed 43 games last season because of back surgery complications and a spinal fluid leak.
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