Kevin Durant On Track For Playoff Return

Houston Rockets’ Taj Gordon (10) blocks the shot by Golden State Warriors’ Klay Thompson (11) in the first half of an NBA basketball game in Houston, Tuesday, March 28, 2017.

Golden State managed to overcome a trail of 22 points to clinch the win.

After handling the third-seeded Rockets, the Western Conference-leading Warriors immediately shifted their focus to the Spurs, who are 2 ½ games behind them in the standings.

“It was a big win obviously, everything was stacked against us after that first quarter but the biggest thing for us is we played solid defense”, Curry said. “Understanding based on the experiences we’ve had the last three years, we have what it takes to win all sorts of ways”. “We’ve just got to keep the fouls down”.

His 29-point haul included four three-pointers, a tally matched by offensive partner Klay Thompson, who had 23 points. That effort was part of another tremendous bench effort for the Dubs that included 14 points from Iguodala.

According to oddsmakers from online sports book Bovada.lv, the Spurs are 4.5-point home favorites versus the Warriors while the over/under now sits at 209, up from the original number of 208.5. “He and (GM) Daryl (Morey) worked together last summer and did a great job kind of figuring out the direction they wanted to go”. Both of those teams had an MVP candidate playing for them.

“Missed a little bit on our defensive assignments, lack of communication, awareness some times and they made us pay for it”, Gasol said.

The Warriors aren’t on the blistering pace they were a year ago, and they’re now without Durant, who has been out the past month because of a sprained medial collateral ligament and bone bruise in his left knee. He had 15 points, five assists and four rebounds, and 11 of his points came in the fourth quarter.

It was Westbrook’s fourth consecutive triple-double and his 38th of an incredible season.

Kerr is the latest Warrior to set a record. The team said he got seven stitches to close a cut above his left eyebrow, and he did not return. I don’t think about it. “We just play. We always have”.

Durant, ruled out indefinitely on March 1 owing to a left knee sprain and bone bruise, may play in the final three regular-season games for the Warriors – home contests against New Orleans on April 8, Utah on April 10 and the Lakers on April 12. “Overall, it’s just incredible what he’s doing now”. Boston has the third-easiest schedule the rest of the way according to ESPN’s BPI so they are still in the mix for top spot in the Eastern Conference.

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope had 25 points and Tobias Harris and Ish Smith each scored 19 for the Pistons (34-41). “I’m not surprised at their level, and their level is really high”.