Mike Brown is more than capable of leading the Warriors

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. On the court, Durant has missed the last two games as the team has held him out for precautionary reasons with a calf strain, which further illustrates the margin of error this Golden State team has in the early going.

The poor Blazers couldn’t bring themselves to actually post how many points the Warriors scored, either at the end of the first quarter or at halftime.

The Blazers will have to do it without center Jusuf Nurkic, who started Game 3 after missing the previous nine games with a non-displaced fracture of his right leg. Nurkic, who played 17 minutes Saturday night, has been ruled out of Game 4.

“That was unbelievable”, Mike Brown, standing in as head coach as Steve Kerr battles recurring symptoms related to his back surgery two years ago, said of the first quarter.

The other factor of this is that Mike Brown is now their head coach, which hasn’t boded well for teams in the past.

“We’ve got his back”. Recently the symptoms have worsened and he has been having severe headaches, neck pain and nausea. During a press conference Sunday, Kerr announced complications from two back surgeries have returned with a vengeance and that he wouldn’t be coaching Game 4. “With things getting worse, I just made the decision I couldn’t coach“, Kerr admitted. The NBA’s 2017 postseason has seen 3 straight wins from the reigning Western Conference Champions and they will be looking for number four as they attempt to close-out their series with the Portland Trail Blazers on the road at Moda.

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.

“Those guys are still the same, they’re still questionable”, Brown said Monday.

All five Warriors starters scored in double figures, with Stephen Curry scoring 37 points to lead the way. Even if I shoot 20 percent, the next one’s going in. Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and the rest of the Warriors are just too much for the Blazers to handle unless Portland’s stars are almost flawless. Two years later, the Warriors picked him up. The Trail Blazers are 8-2 ATS in their last 10 home games, 14-5 ATS in their last 19 vs.