Golden State Warriors

After missing all of Games 2 and 3 with an ankle injury that was reaggrivated in Game 1, Kawhi Leonard has been ruled out for Game 4, Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich announced in his pregame press conference.

Warriors general manager Bob Myers joined Gary and Larry on Monday and admitted that JaVale McGee has exceeded the organization’s wildest expectations.

Longtime Warriors play-by-play commentator and KNBR radio host Bob Fitzgerald joined the Murph and Mac Show Monday morning, and pulled no punches during a rant blasting NBA officials’ treatment of Warriors point guard Stephen Curry.

Until the Cleveland Cavaliers lost Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals at home to the Boston Celtics, it looked as if the Cavs and the Golden State Warriors would each sweep their way to the NBA Finals. We caught up with Murph & Mac in the studio Monday to get their take on all the playoff blowout wins, and whether or not they think this difference in talent level between NBA teams is good for the game of basketball.

Two days after Stephen Curry was on the business end of a screen from Spurs’ center Dewyane Dedmon that he deemed ‘dirty,’ the Warriors point guard was seen limping with an ice pack on his left knee following the team’s shoot around Monday morning.

Kevin Durant rocked the NBA world by making the decision to join the Warriors this past offseason, giving a Warriors team who won an NBA-record 73 games last year another All-NBA caliber player. Durant has proven himself to be especially valuable to the Warriors in the playoffs, putting up career highs in offensive plus/minus (6.4) and true shooting percentage (.651).

Zaza Pachulia told USA Today that he has received threatening messages in the wake of the closeout he made in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals last weekend, to the point where security was sent to his childrens’ school for protection.

It’ll be hard to top anything more embarrassing happening to an entire team than the 44-point loss the Boston Celtics endured at the hands of the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals. But as far as individual embarrassments are concerned, this is up there.

Here was the deep ball the San Francisco 49ers were looking for last season. David West’s pass to Ian Clark at the end of the first half of Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals was a dart. But, probably more impressive was Clark’s agility in catching and finishing at the rim as time expired.

After being listed as probable to play Saturday morning, Warriors forward Andre Iguodala will play in Game 3 vs the San Antonio Spurs interim coach Mike Brown announced before the game. Iguodala will not be under a minutes restriction.