Are the Golden State Warriors DONE without Steph Curry ⁉️ + Draymond Green incident | Get Up

Are the Golden State Warriors DONE without Steph Curry ⁉️ + Draymond Green incident | Get Up

Steph Curry exactly as we didn’t want to see him in street clothes taking on Anthony Edwards game two and Allan this one just right out of the shoot Minnesota dominance. Yeah, they punched him first. They had to after an embarrassing game one. Julius Randle fantastic. A 130 start and Golden State without Steph Curry was lost offensively. Anthony Edwards the JMT Wolves up 14 points after one second quarter. Here’s a moment. Tell us what we see here Allan. Draymond Green flailing the arms in the face of Nazri trying to draw a foul but doing it in a very pugilistic way as he normally does excessive no doubt about it. Win man, it’s his fifth technical foul and there’s also two flagrants in nine playoff games and he could have gotten a second technical by yelling from the officials here if he got lucky he was even allowed to stay in the game. Seven is the magic number. Seven he gets a suspension again. He is at five now. They would get him calmed down. Then another potentially terrible moment. I want you to watch Anthony Edwards. Watch closely as the ankle. This is a bad looking moment right there. Wow. Allan, it looked like a was going to be a lot worse than it seemed luckily to be. When he stays down, you know it’s serious. And he’s limping off, but made it back for the second half. He does. He comes out of the locker room, played in the second half, looked fine. Meanwhile, the Warriors look terrible. There’s a bad shot. Here’s great transition defense. McDaniels throwing it down. This one was just sort of a non-game the entire second half. It’s a 16-point lead. Randall throws it up. Edwards throws it down. Randall had 24 and 11. Edwards had 20 and nine. And most importantly, it looks like the ankle is fine. The series is even at one game a piece. But with Steph dressed that way, and I’ll play you some sound from him in a moment. Michael, I hate to even ask this question, but if Steph Curry isn’t able to make it back, is it just over for Golden State? Yeah, it was it would be over for any team in today’s NBA missing their best player. Maybe maybe any era of NBA, particularly at this stage where you’ve got this few teams still remaining. What team could survive the loss of its best player? What teams could survive the loss of one of the I’m going to say top 10 10 15 18 greatest players of all time in the playoffs? What team could survive that? Probably none. None. So the Warriors are no different in that regard. And it’s it’s a horrible like and and Allan, you and I talked about it yesterday like I don’t care who you’re rooting for. Steph Curry is as Michael just said, one of the greatest players ever and certainly the most popular player of this generation. If this is his last best shot to see him go out this way in street clothes, the basketball gods just cannot do that. I don’t think it’s his last best shot. I think they’ve got a good chance to come back next year. But obviously they were in great position in this series up 1 taking home court and now he’s out. And I I don’t want to say Steve Kerr was in search mode last night, but he played 14 players in the first half. We’ve never seen it in the history of the game. Uh they also didn’t defend. Now, you know, you’re going to have your offense go down without Steph Curry. And the numbers are scary. When Steph Curry plays in this postseason, they score 116 points per 100 possessions. Good. when he doesn’t play like last night goes to 93. Devastating drop. When that happens, you got to defend. And the Warriors have been really good defensively this year. But in this game, they allowed open three-pointer after open three-pointer after open three-pointer. Let me let me play the Steph Curry sound, Alan, which this is Steph cuz you’re talking about sort of his basketball mortality, and he’s feeling it. This is what Steph said yesterday. When you’re 27, you feel like, you know, you’re obviously in your prime. like every opportunity I have now it you don’t want it to be wasted on an injury. Like I’m thankful it wasn’t worse and I’m very aware of and appreciative that I have even a chance to come back. Injuries are always hard emotionally just cuz you know none of this is guaranteed to be back, you know, in this environment or in the playoff experience and have an opportunity like that. Boy, did that sound as ominous in his tone as it did to me? Oh, it didn’t. No, I’m I’m great. He feels bad. He feels bad right now. He knows they can win a championship now, right? And so every player you’ve ever talked to who has the awareness of Steph Curry and the common sense of Steph Curry knows you you’re losing one. You’re seeing it slip away and you can’t grab it. And so he sounds like I expect one of the great athletes in the history of American sports to sound. It doesn’t mean Wendy’s right. I agree with you anyway. It it doesn’t mean anything for next year. Remember they just met Jimmy Butler’s been there for a minute and a half. They’re going to have Jimmy next year. They’re going to have Draymond. They’re going to have the core of that team. They can do this. Does he have a seven-year window? No, Michael. When you look at the West and you look at what’s there, it’s going to be hard. But it’s going to be hard now. But no, no, but right now was probably the best best case scenario for them when you consider what’s left and if they could get past this series, the experience they have against a young Oklahoma City team, that’s got to feel like this might be the biggest window he has. Let me also clarify what I meant by ominous. I didn’t mean for the future. I meant for his chances of coming back and playing in this series because we talked at length about the extra time between games five and six. So he it’s a week from Sunday is game six. Can they win one game in the next three? So that there would be automatically have to be a game six which is a week from Sunday. And if so maybe just maybe Steph will be back and be able to play in that. That’s I think if you’re a Warriors fan, your best case scenario if you’re looking for a reason to have some hope. You’re Jonathan Kuminga played in this game because he played everybody. He made eight straight shots at one point. Talked about after the game how he’s confidence is back. They need some sort of somebody to make shots from somewhere. They need some offense. So maybe this helps. And the schedule also gives you a reason because of the extra days. The three days between games is important too as you pointed out yesterday. And I think that’s something that if Steph Curry is, you have to believe if they can get one and there is a game six, he’s going to do whatever it takes, right? Like he’ll do whatever it takes for his team to get. And there’s something else we have to get into. Yeah. Minnesota just does stuff. They have lapses. We saw it last year when they got up two on Denver. They have lapses at home. They have lapses on the road. They are a maturing playoff team. They’re not great. Mhm. Okay. They’re not without fault. They can be had. They can be had and they often are. So, you know, let’s get as the great John Thompson used to say, just keep playing. By the way, if you’ve never if you’ve never had the opportunity to let Michael Wilbun tell you John Thompson stories you haven’t lived. Those are some great stories. Most of them not to be shared on the air. But but so just a quick, do the Warriors win one of the two games at home? Do they win one of the two at home? If they do, it’s got to be with their defense and it’s got to be a lot better. Their defense has been good, but it was terrible last night. Do they win a home game? Maybe because Ant has not been playing well and now he might have a little bit of an ankle issue. He’s not played well the last three or four games, but the Wolves overall looked much better as a team last night. I’m a little bit worried about that if I’m a Warriors. Well coached. Again, I don’t care who you’re rooting for. You don’t want to see Steph go out at least for this season at this age this way. Let’s see if he makes it back. In the meantime, we showed you the Draymond Green incident. There is more to it. The incident on the floor with Nas Reed again. and he got his fifth technical seven is an automatic suspension. Adding to his night, while Green was on a stationary bike in the tunnel near the Warriors bench, he got into a back and forth with a fan. That fan was ejected for directing a racial slur at Draymond Green. Afterwards, Draymond gave a quick statement to reporters. Look like the angry black man. I’m not an angry black man. I’m a very successful, educated black man with a great family and I’m great at basketball. I’m great at what I do. To the agenda to try to keep making me look like an angry black man is crazy. I’m sick of it is ridiculous. He’s obviously very frustrated there. And Michael, you were mentioning we’re not exactly sure what part of his night he’s referring. Not at all. Not in any way, shape, or form. And those comments resonate more with some people than others. Resonates with me. Unlike Draymond, I usually wake up an angry black man most days, not all of them. And if I had been there last night, I might have been able to walk out of the tunnel and ask him. I I’ve talked to Draymond a lot a lot recently. And so that that’s to me that that’s a trigger. Somebody something and someone triggered him. I don’t know. Keep in mind that incident on the bike happened in the fourth quarter, right? So it’s it’s fresh. The more Yeah. the more recent pressure. We don’t we we have no idea what happened back there. You can’t we don’t know. So we’re clear. What what what we mean by this is we don’t know when he’s making those comments if he’s talking about what happened on the floor or more likely it sounds like what happened on the stationary bike and whatever it is someone said to him whatever it is that person said it got that person ejected from the arena. Yeah. I mean this this is life in America. Okay. Yeah. I mean, the great Arthur Ash once said, "Being a black man in America is like having a second full-time job." And it is. That is one of the mo most eloquent statements I’ve ever heard. He said it maybe 35, 30 years ago. Still applies. And again, kudos to Draymond for saying he’s not. Draymond’s what, 30 years younger than me. Like I said, I could had that rant except I’d be saying, "Yeah, I am." And it’s justified sometimes. And even if it’s not justified, we don’t know. We have no idea, none, less than zero, what triggered that, but it can trigger it for anybody, trust me. So, it it it seems more likely that he was referring to the incident in the tunnel again than the than the technical foul or an officiating. He goes back and forth with officials all the time, all literally all the time, more than anybody in the league. And you don’t we don’t get to that, which says to me that something else happened back there. It may have been a series of things. We we we we don’t know how it was handled and how the fan was tossed. Will it all come out? Maybe. It often does, but no idea. You were telling us this morning about the configuration of the arena. Pardon me. You have worked games there. The bike that he’s on, it’s in a tunnel. It’s behind the behind the the backboard and the crowd’s right there. In a lot of the arenas, as we’ve all worked, we’ve seen it. They always put the stationary bike where players will stay warm and it’s always right next to one of the one of the bleachers. And so, you can interact. And I’ve seen players interact. Sometimes it’s fun, sometimes not so much. And so in that situation and and you know, the reporting was and there was a a Warriors security personnel. They always have security there with the player, by the way. Always one person’s with them. Uh and that they did confirm that there was something, you know, racially uh uh motivated in the conversation that the fan was having, which is the why it led to the immediately ejection. What we know for sure is the fan was ejected from the arena. We know that Draymond was frustrated afterwards. Perhaps that he’ll clear that up at some point today or whatever the case. Maybe he has his own podcast and all that. So perhaps he’ll address it further one way or another. We know that he’d get the fifth technical which does put him too away from a suspension. [Music]

On Get Up, Michael Wilbon, Brian Windhorst, and Alan Hahn join Mike Greenberg to react to the Minnesota Timberwolves’ win over the Golden State Warriors in Game 2 of the Western Conference Semifinals of the 2025 NBA Playoffs.

0:00 Warriors-Timberwolves highlights
1:48 Are Warriors done without Steph Curry?
3:31 Steph’s comments on injury + reaction
7:18 Draymond Green incident
9:00 Wilbon speaks on Draymond interaction with fan

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