The Golden State Warriors will get another crack in a search for the NBA championship after defeating the Memphis Grizzlies in their game tournament game on Tuesday night, 121-116.
Jimmy Butler and Stephen Curry led the way for Golden State. Butler had 38 points and curry with notches 37. Gary Payton II and Quinten Post had 12 and 11 points, respectively, outside the bank. No other Warriors player had more than nine points.
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Golden State Warriors striker Jimmy Butler III, #10, celebrates with the guard Stephen Curry, #30, after a NBA tournament basketball game against the Memphis Grizzlies in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Butler’s annotation attack helped to remove something from Curry’s pressure and added another chapter in the “Playoff Jimmy” tradition, which began when he was with the Miami Heat.
“I know I want to win a championship so that he needs it, what would be number 5?” Butler said after the game.
Curry was 9 of 22 from the field and 6-F-13 from the range of 3 points. The performance occurred after he obtained 52 points against the Grizzlies in one of the final games of the regular season.
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Fans react as the Golden State Warriors guard, Stephen Curry, #30, celebrates after making a 3 -point basket during the second half of a NBA tournament basketball game against the Memphis Grizzlies in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
“Only a feeling of relief that we have something to expect now,” he said about his feelings after the game, through ESPN.
Golden State will face the young Houston Rockets team in the first round of the playoffs.
“We desperately need this game and get four days [off]”Said Golden State chief coach Steve Kerr.” Our boys have basically been playing knockout games for about three weeks. A high -level game after another.
“Then, to get this, he took 83 games, but we are just where we want to be. Which is back in the playoffs and we had a chance.”
The Grizzlies will now have to play a game to get the eighth seed. They will play the winner of the confrontation of the Sacramento Kings and Dallas Mavericks.
The representative Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, and her husband, Paul Pelosi, react after the Golden State Warriors Stephen Curry guard, #30, made a 3 -point basket against the Grizzlies of Memphis during the first half of a NBA tournament game in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Desmond Bane led the team with 30 points and Ja Morant added 22.
