Jorge Sierra @hoopshype
Draymond Green passed Patrick Ewing in playoff rebounds for No. 25 all-time tonight. Also moved ahead of Dolph Schayes in scoring for No. 80. – 1:12 AM

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

Fred Katz @FredKatz
Rockets deserve to feel nothing but excellent about their season. Returning to the playoffs w/ 52 wins and an in-your-face competitive culture. They’re loaded with young talent — Thompson, Smith, Eason, Sengun, Green + more. They’ve got draft picks. They’re set up for the future. – 11:05 PM

Jonathan Feigen @Jonathan_Feigen
Rockets looked like they punched themselves out in Games 5 and 6. If so, series was lost when when they dropped those 2 games in SF and had to climb back. Either way, they are not winning post-season games, never mind a Game 7, with Sengun inefficient and Green invisible. – 11:02 PM

Sam Vecenie @Sam_Vecenie
Warriors are killing between Draymond on defense and Hield’s shotmaking, but holy mother of god Amen Thompson is special right now on the court and just willing the Rockets to stay in this game. This is unreal. That tip over three guys off of the Sengun miss was CRAZY. – 10:09 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

Prevailing, 103-89, in Toyota Center on Sunday sent the team coached by Steve Kerr to the next round. “I learned a lot. First time in the Playoffs, for me,” the 22-year-old Turkish center replied to a question about facing Draymond Green in a best-of-seven series, “Aggressiveness in defense, play both ways. Just try to win, try to help my teammates.” “Obviously, he is one of the best defenders, all-time. It was great to play against him,” he added in a postgame press conference, “I have a lot to work on, and making all those easy shots. I will work a lot this offseason on those shots and come back even stronger next year. And hopefully make those next year in the Playoffs.” -via EuroHoops.net / May 5, 2025

“I learned real basketball,” he described overall postseason experience: “We learned how to play together. We played a team over and over seven times. So, just trying to stay together, talk every day. It was just a hard series for us.” “I think I improved my defense this season, but I have to work a lot more on my offense. I didn’t have a great year on offense. I was even better last year, I would say,” Sengun also went into his offseason plans, “I’m just going to focus on that, on my body, my touch, everything. A long summer is waiting for me. So, I have a lot to do.” -via EuroHoops.net / May 5, 2025