Anthony Slater @anthonyVslater
Draymond Green: “Pat (Spencer) is a damn good basketball player. I know it don’t look like it…The No. 61 don’t help…But Pat is one of the toughest players on this team.” – 12:49 AM

Ohm Youngmisuk @NotoriousOHM
Draymond Green said Stephen Curry was “deflated” by the injury. But Draymond says, “Jimmy has taken a team to the Finals twice. We won’t panic.” – 12:46 AM

Ohm Youngmisuk @NotoriousOHM
Draymond Green asked if Steph Curry was good when he walked off floor. Curry told him, “I’ll be back.” Green said the Warriors played several minutes without knowing Curry was out with a hamstring injury. He says, “Robin turned into Batman and Alfred turned into Robin.” – 12:40 AM

Law Murray @LawMurrayTheNU
Draymond Green sat for 3 minutes in a quarter of playoff basketball on the road and still outscored an entire team in that quarter.
The end. – 12:24 AM

Anthony Slater @anthonyVslater
Warriors starters to open the second half
Brandin Podziemski
Buddy Hield
Jimmy Butler
Gary Payton II
Draymond Green
Steve Kerr leaning defense to open. It seems likely he will go to Kuminga again in search of scoring with Curry down. – 10:58 PM

Tom Haberstroh @tomhaberstroh
Steph leaves with hammy
Buddy Hield 0-7 FG with 0 3PA
Anthony Edwards 0-8 FG
Draymond 4 threes
Wolves 0-15 on threes
Jimmy Butler with 5 orebs and a three
that first half was drunk – 10:47 PM

Dave McMenamin @mcten
That kind of half for the Wolves: A Draymond Green airball falls right into Jimmy Butler’s hands to set up an easy layup right before the end of the 2nd Q. GSW leads MIN 44-31, with the Wolves shooting an anemic 31.8% overall, including an 0-for-15 mark from 3. – 10:43 PM

Jimmy Spencer @JimmySpencer
No Steph for the remainder of the game.
Draymond pacing for a 30 piece.
Ant with no field goals.
Warriors defense holding the Wolves to 31 points in the first half. – 10:43 PM

Anthony Slater @anthonyVslater
Game 1 starters
Warriors
Steph Curry
Brandin Podziemski
Buddy Hield
Jimmy Butler
Draymond Green
Timberwolves
Mike Conley
Anthony Edwards
Jaden McDaniels
Julius Randle
Rudy Gobert – 9:03 PM

Jorge Sierra @hoopshype
Draymond Green has scored 20.1 percent of his points in the NBA in the playoffs.
That’s the highest mark of any All-Star in league history (ahead of Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum and Kawhi Leonard). – 9:00 AM

Steve Bulpett @SteveBHoop
Had fun spending some time with Patrick Ewing prior to tipoff. He’s doing work for the Knicks, but it’s clear he still appreciates his Cambridge roots and being back in Boston for a big series.
Just need Larry Bird here to recreate the Harry and Larry Show from the Dream Team. – 7:38 PM

Draymond Green: We know what Jimmy’s capable of. Jimmy’s capable of carrying the team. He carried the team to the Finals twice, so we won’t panic. We’ll, we’ll, we’ll figure out what that means. We have the best coaching staff in the NBA. We know they’ll put us in a good spot and let us know what our offense looks like without Steph, if we have to go on without him. But we got full confidence in the guys that are on this team that we can make plays, we can make shots, and we know we got a guy that can make that first domino fall in Jimmy. So we, we’ll be all right. You see me in the first half, you saw me bouncing to that pick and pop three, I felt. This is what I trained for. You know, this is what we all train for, to get in these situations.” -via YouTube / May 7, 2025

“Got a lot of respect for him,” said Green of Sengun. “You know, I’ve played against a lot of guys. I always tell people that in playoff series one of two things happen: Either you completely lose respect for someone or you gain a lot of respect for someone … You get to see who is really real. So Sengun is real. He ain’t back down at all. “[But] what I would say to Sengun — flop a little less. Embellish a little less,” Green continued. “Because with a defender like me. Imma feed off that. He real, he physical, he ain’t backing down … A lot of respect for him.” -via Larry Brown Sports / May 7, 2025

StatMuse: Jalen Brunson has more 30-point playoff games than Clyde Drexler Patrick Ewing Julius Erving Moses Malone DeMar DeRozan Paul Pierce Jaylen Brown Magic Johnson Chauncey Billups Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Ray Allen Vince Carter Tracy McGrady Dominique Wilkins Klay Thompson pic.x.com/1o7kWPrjku -via Twitter @statmuse / May 1, 2025