{"id":59355,"date":"2025-05-07T07:42:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T07:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=59355"},"modified":"2025-05-07T07:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T07:46:15","slug":"warriors-jimmy-butler-delivers-blunt-message-on-stephen-curry-after-game-1-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=59355","title":{"rendered":"Warriors&#8217; Jimmy Butler Delivers Blunt Message on Stephen Curry After Game 1 Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2025\/02\/23214942\/butler2GettyImages-2201552451-scaled-e1740366905819.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=1200&amp;fit=cover\" alt=\"With Jimmy Butler, Warriors are 'totally different' in non-Steph Curry minutes and thriving - The Athletic\" \/>After the Warriors pulled off a grinding, somewhat ugly 99-88 win in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal series against the Timberwolves on Tuesday night, star forward\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/nba\/player\/jimmy-butler\">Jimmy Butler<\/a>\u00a0was asked for a few thoughts about the victory.<\/p>\n<p>On the night, Butler had 20 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists, but his performance was typical of the level of offense in the game&#8211;he was 7-for-20 from the field, and just 2-for-8 from the 3-point line. The Warriors needed every point they could get, though, because they played all but 13 minutes of the game without\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/nba\/player\/stephen-curry\">Stephen Curry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Curry went out in the second quarter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/warriors-stephen-curry-suffers-concerning-injury-game-2-vs-timberwolves\" rel=\"nofollow\">with a left hamstring injury<\/a>, a problem that is certain to weigh heavily on Golden State even after the win. It&#8217;s early, but Curry is likely to miss at least Game 2, and probably more, even if the injury is a mild one.<\/p>\n<p>Butler was happy with the Game 1 win, but was really hopeful he&#8217;d see Curry again sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<p>Butler was told that Game 1s are often feeling-out games, and was asked what he learned from the win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That Steph is our best player and the game is much easier when we got him,&#8221; Butler said.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Warriors shot 39.1% from the field in Game 1, but did make 18 of their 42 3-point attempts. Their defense, aided by cold shooting from Minnesota, deserves credit, as Golden State&#8217;s D held Minnesota below 90 points for the first time since April 2024. The Wolves shot 39.5% from the field and were only 5-for-29 from 3-point line.<\/p>\n<p>Buddy Hield had 24 points and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/nba\/player\/draymond-green\">Draymond Green<\/a>\u00a0had 18 as those two combined to go 9-for-18 from the 3-point line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Warriors pulled off a grinding, somewhat ugly 99-88 win in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal series against the Timberwolves on Tuesday night, star&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":59369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Warriors&#039; 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