Golden State Warriors vs Minnesota Timberwolves Full Highlights 1st Qtr | May 14|2025 NBA Highlights

Golden State Warriors vs Minnesota Timberwolves Full Highlights 1st Qtr | May 14|2025 NBA Highlights

[Music] tonight, Brian, because the Warriors know if they can pull one out tonight, they go home for game six with Steph Curry very likely playing. And the Timberwolves want to get this thing closed out and not get one of the best clutch players in the history of the league a chance to beat him. Lauren Jabar is going to have more on Stephen Curry as we continue on tonight. Arriving at our first closeout game as Buddy Heel gets up the first shot. Go Bear there to clean it up. You can feel it in the building. This crowd is energized. They have not had a closeout game in this building since 2004 as Rudy Goar opens up the story. Well, that’s a heck of a pass out of the blitz by Anthony Edwards and a nice catch and finish by Rudy Goar who really hasn’t been involved much offensively. Jimmy Butler gives it up. Pachimsky fires up a three and buries a three. And the Warriors are going to need a lot more of that from guys like Pachimsky and Heield. And it is no coincidence that Heel and Pimsky get up the first two shots here tonight. Not at all. They need heel to keep it going from three. And then they need somebody else whether it’s Pimsky, Payton, Moody, somebody who shot the ball earlier very well in the playoffs to get going offensively. And this defense, which is capable of doing it, has to be absolutely great. Here’s Anthony Edwards coming off a 30-point game in game four. Made six threes in that game. Sets up Randall who went for 31 in game four. And that dynamic duo, they have found their footing after a rough start in game one. Remember that was after five days off and they have won the last three to put the Warriors on the break. And Edwards with the block. Randall taking on two Warriors and lost the handle right to Pajki. Ill advised from Julius Randall. Yeah. And a great effort by Draymond Green to get on the floor. Part of the story here with this series, they’ve played every other day through these first five games as Trace Jackson Davis on the cleanup on the miss by Pajinsky. Coach is going to be three days off before game six. So, the Curry story is an even bigger one knowing that the Warriors if and a big if they can get past this Minnesota team tonight on the road. Mike Connley hits a corner three. Crowd erupting with every moment. Chris Ben Finch talked to us about his team needing to come out with force. They have not been as good at home as he would like. As Buddy Heel gets a mid-range jumper to go. Chris Finch says, “We need better execution production to start the game to get this crowd immediately into it.” [Applause] Wolves finished six in the West. Warriors ended up with a seven seed. Minnesota had a great run at the end of the year. They have won 13 of 16 games and since March 1st they really turned the corner and got themselves out of the playin and into the playoffs. took down the Lakers in five and they’ve got a chance to take out the Warriors in five with a victory tonight. Anthony Edwards finds Connley again. The lefty fires. No good and Goar right off of Green who secured it. That was a nice play by Green. [Applause] Jimmy Butler gets the booze every time he touches the ball. That could have been a foul on Butler. Good call though by the referees. John Goble, James Williams, Shawn Wright are three officials. Justin Van Dy is the alternate Dave Fitzgerald and James Kers back in Caucus at the NBA replay center. Julius Randle, he has had a terrific postseason stand. He has answered a lot of questions. Coach comprehensive and detailed said Steph’s rehab like he does everything else all in. Early on it was mostly treatment. Now he’s progressed to some oncourt basketball activity like stationary shooting. Celebr emphasized though they’re accelerating when they can but not skipping any stages of healing. He said given the nature of the injury and where we are in the timeline though we couldn’t ask for a better scenario. Steph will be reevaluated guys on Saturday and hopes that he could be on the floor for game six. Steve Kerr optimistic. Thank you Laura. Good stuff there. Good report and all the things that are going into this stand. And of course Minnesota wants no part of that. They want to eliminate the Warriors right now. It would buy them some time off before the Western Conference Finals is the Daniels go strong to the basket. So Stephen Curry again, it’s not something you can just deal with the pain and play through. It is a hamstring injury. Draymond Green with a nice finish. He could be out there and against the Warriors zone right there. A great screen by Rudy Goar. That’s how the Timberwolves have tried to attack this zone. screening up top on the guards gets Anthony Edwards the room to knock down that three. Kajimki nice pass with his off hand and Putler’s going to draw the contact. Yes. Is it easier without Steph Curry of course but this team was going to be very tough to deal with regardless. Credit to Tim Connley as well now in his third year heading up the basketball operations with the Wolves. He was the man who built the Denver Nuggets. Spent 10 years. Minnesota up six halfway through the first quarter in the first closeout opportunity of this series. Minnesota leads 3-1 in his best of seven. Gets Reed on his back. Gets his own rebound. And now Buddy Heel trying to shake Devon Chinsenzo. Cannot. Pensky open and he hits another one. His second made three. have travels with it. Here’s Kaminga. First minutes on the floor and denied. It was Steven Chinszo and Edwards. And now the Ant-Man wants to push. Warriors get back. Well, Randall with Pajki on him and Green lurking. Now Reed drives. Reed leaves it up top and a throw down. Jaden McDaniels flying high for the lob. This kid is springloaded right here. Jaden McDaniels, fifth year pro out of Washington. He’s only 24 years of age. He is electric and a lock down defender. Dianzo cuts the lane. First is a turnover. Edwards gives it right back to McDaniels. McDaniels missed it. Kaminga with the rebound. Well, and that’s a good sign right there. Kaminga didn’t have a rebound in game four. Kaminga running the floor, dunks it down. Steve Kerr said to us at our meeting between the four of us, me, Stan, Steve, and Lauren, as many rebounds as Jonathan come. They need more. Has not been in the rotation in this series. Naz Reed, nice little turnaround jump hook in the lane. Known as a three-point threat. He’s got some sauce in the paint as well. Kaminga goes with a left hand. That was brilliant. We asked Steve Kerr why not start Kaminga and he said we want to buy him a little time. Start with Trace Jackson Davis. Good. Tough finish. They’re playing fast. Up and down the floor they go. Both teams want to push it. Game four was the fastest pace game of the series up to that point and they’re playing even faster tonight. Jonathan Kamega hits a three. He has come off that bench blistering hot right now. Both sides of the ball. Well, the last three games he’s averaged almost 24 points a game. He’s got a quick seven in his first four minutes. Edwards with a fly by. Gives it right back. Alexander Walker around the horn it goes. Nas Reed resets it for a three. No good. And Santos and Goar take a spill together.

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Golden State Warriors vs Minnesota Timberwolves Full Highlights 1st Qtr | May 14|2025 NBA Highlights