2016 NBA Playoffs WESTERN Conference Discussion

Damn, Curry!

 

I LOVE CURRY! Kobe should adopt him.

 

Steph is amazing. Best player in the world. This is what Kobe used to do. No excuses for injury. Just go out there and dominate and tear opponents head off.

 

Curry is just too insane

 

Curry is insane!

 

Not sure what you can say anymore.

 

MVP? I'm ok with that.

 

After this I have to go watch the end of Kobe's 60 again.

 

The only hope for Cleveland, OKC, or the Spurs was that Steph wouldn't be the same. They've got no chance. This guy and this team is just too good.

 

It took less than a game for him to get back into form and knock off the rust. Yea you a bad man Steph. 17 in OT is f***ing insane. Just unreal.

 

27 of his 40 in the 4th and OT.

 

After seeing Steph tonight I have backed away a little from the Lebrongonnagetanotherring ledge lol.

 

Also, bump the Spurs, I REALLY want to see Steph vs KD.

 

Dude!! You are .....

 

This 3pts thing is getting too much out of control ....

The hell Lillard is doing shooting from near mid-court early in the shot clock ?

 

The return of Stephen Curry: Inside his magical, record-setting night
Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical,Yahoo Sports 4 hours ago


https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/t...-magical--record-setting-night-085959625.html


PORTLAND, Ore. – The MVP had finished a television interview and started for the exit. Stephen Curry had transformed a rollicking, rolling night in the old Rose Garden into a stunned, surreal tomb. He had all but closed down the Blazers' season, turning out the lights with the greatest overtime performance in the NBA's history.

"Legendary stuff," Joe Lacob crooned to The Vertical late Monday. The owner of these Golden State Warriors was trailing Curry into the tunnel like a corner man leaving the ring with the heavyweight champ, marveling over the theater of the most spectacular show in sports.

"Unbelievable. I mean, just …" Lacob was shaking his head now, and laughing and repeating the word again.

"Unbelievable."

All around him, the people reached out to touch Curry, to warm themselves on the steam rising off him, to touch one of basketball's historic moments. Seventeen points in overtime of a 132-125 Game 4 victory over the Trail Blazers – the most ever scored in an NBA game. Twenty-seven of his 40 points would come after the third quarter, would come in a night that his genius belonged to the imperfection, to the resiliency, to the chasing of his old self.

"Man," Draymond Green would say to The Vertical in a quiet moment late Monday night in the locker room. "[Expletive], 17 points in a five-minute overtime. Man …"





Curry Erupts In Overtime
Stephen Curry scores an NBA-record 17 points in overtime, finishing with 40 on the night.

Green had been magnificent – 21 points, nine rebounds, seven blocks, five assists and four steals – and only Steph Curry could upstage that kind of brilliance. Only the MVP.

Curry had missed a 3-pointer upon entering the game, and another, and another. He kept shooting those threes and they kept clanking off the rim, or missing everything for an air ball. He missed 10 consecutive 3-pointers – something he's never done. Everyone expected the lethargy of his game, the loss of timing, the shortness of breath and shots. Yes, Curry is the MVP, but there's no preparation for the ferocity of playoff basketball, and Curry would need a game – maybe two – to acclimate himself.

Fifteen days ago, Golden State general manager Bob Myers had gone with Curry and his family to the MRI exam on Curry's right knee. Curry had missed a week with a bad ankle in the opening-round series, played less than a half and hurt the knee. Now, the exam hung over the franchise like an anvil.

"There was drama in the room," Myers told The Vertical late Monday night. "There was doubt."

In the end, the diagnosis delivered sheer relief. Two weeks, the doctors told them. Yes, Curry could live with two weeks. These Warriors aren't championship contenders without him, but they have the talent and toughness to hold onto the season until he can get back again. As Curry worked toward his return in these Western Conference semifinals, he never lost the perspective that waiting one more game – waiting a few more days – would be most prudent.

"His spirits were high because he knew he dodged a bullet," Myers told The Vertical.

Golden State coach Steve Kerr had played years with Michael Jordan, and assistant Luke Walton had been with Kobe Bryant, and still Curry can be peerless in the way that he can captivate the most discriminating of eyes. Here it was, a hellacious playoff game, and Kerr did something so rare for him: He stepped out of the moment and marveled with everyone else.

"Can you believe this?" Kerr kept leaning over to Walton and repeating. "Can you believe this?"

The shots started to drop, and the poor Blazers were left in the debris. Portland has been a magnificent test for the champs, an improbable upstart with a burgeoning superstar – Damian Lillard – and a superb supporting cast, culture and coach.

"All he needs to see is one of those go in," Green told The Vertical. "Just one – and then it gets bad for everybody. This guy hasn't played in two weeks, right? And to come here, and take over the game like that in the fourth quarter, in overtime, that ranks up there with the best that I've ever seen."

When it was over, Curry iced his knee, climbed to his feet in the locker room, and as he started to walk he could feel that knee stiffening on him. "It's wearing off," he said with a laugh to one of the Warriors' PR officials, and soon he kept going down the hallway and out of the old building. The charter flight would bring him back to the Bay Area, where a Tuesday news conference awaited to present Curry with his second straight MVP trophy.

Game 5 comes on Wednesday, with the Warriors promising to end this Blazers season, end this 3-1 series and move themselves into the Western Conference finals. This was something else on Monday night, something for the ages. Out of nowhere, the misses stopped, the shots started to fall – and they kept coming and coming on Monday night.

Out in the deafening din of the old Rose Garden, out in the middle of it all again, they could hear the MVP screaming on the floor. "I'm back!" Stephen Curry bellowed. "I'm back!"

Everyone's on notice again, everyone's on edge. The MVP has returned to these playoffs, and, yes, the championship still goes through the Golden State Warriors, through the greatest player on the planet, Stephen Curry.






Warriors vs. Blazers: Game 4
Stephen Curry scores 17 points in overtime totaling 40 poings with nine boards and eight assists to lead Golden State over Portland in overtime, 132-125.