Due to a right knee sprain, he did not return to the game.
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Curry came out of the locker room wearing brace on his right knee but went back inside after aborting an attempt to warm up for the second half. Harden finished with 35 points, eight rebounds and nine assists to pace five Rockets in double figure in scoring. The duo combined to score 25 of the Warrior’s 41 third-quarter points, powering their team to a 3-1 series score.
Draymond Green said they’ll have to bring the same intensity they had in the second half on Sunday if they hope to eliminate the Rockets in Game 5.
“When you have a team that is as together as ours is and cares about each other like ours does, you tend to pick up the fight a little bit”, coach Steve Kerr said.
Curry is due to have an MRI on his sprained knee to evaluate the damage today. Curry who has been suffering from ankle injury from the team’s Game Two, was not available for the match also.
The Rockets were rolling in the first half and took a 43-36 lead on a bevy of James Harden free throws, Dwight Howard dunks and Patrick Beverley steals. But don’t tell that to Steph Curry, who was injured in Game 4 but refused to accept the fact that he wouldn’t be able to finish with his teammates.
“Terrible way, awful way, bad way to lose”, said Harden, per Feigen.
Thompson hit another 3-pointer soon after that and the Warriors scored the last eight points of the quarter to lead 97-76 entering the fourth. Warriors shooting guard Andre Iguodala tied the game, 56-56, with four seconds left in the half, and the two teams went into halftime on level terms. He finished with six points.
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“You go back and look at how numerous shots were created by us not doing little things that we needed to do”. The Warriors bested the National Basketball Association record they shared for 3s in a playoff game when Brandon Rush made one from the top of the key with about 2 1/2 minutes left. At the time, they looked like a No. 1 seed and the Warriors looked off – Curry missed his first 4 three-point attempts. Shaun Livingston got a technical in the third quarter when he tripped Howard after Howard hit him. In the first half, Houston’s starting floor general suffered a strained right leg, per the Houston Chronicle’s Jonathan Feigen, and at halftime, the team ruled him out for the remainder of the game. His injury left the Rockets ill-prepared to handle the Warriors’ hot start to the third quarter.
