Six teams are within 1.5 games of each other for the Western Conference’s No. 4-8 playoff seeds, including the team that defeated Golden State on Saturday night: the New Orleans Pelicans.
The Warriors were blasted in Indiana on Thursday night. First by the Pacers in a listless 126-106 loss, and then by their head coach Steve Kerr after the game.
Bojan Bogdanovic had 28 points, Victor Oladipo scored 14 of his 21 points in the second half and the playoff-bound Indiana Pacers beat the Golden State Warriors 126-106 on Thursday night.
The Warriors provided an update on the status of guard Patrick McCaw on Thursday, who has been out of action since a scary fall against the Kings on March 31, that saw him leave the floor on a stretcher. Steve Kerr called the incident the scariest thing he’s ever seen on a basketball court.
A Thunder-Warriors matchup would imbue life into a typically boring first round of the NBA playoffs. The Durant-vs.-his-former-team storyline will always dominate, but there’s so much substance permeating the matchup.