They’re plotting a retooled middle of the rotation below Curry, Jimmy Butler and Green, still believing that veteran core can contend. “It’s in some ways kind of a win to get here, to get (to) the second round,” Lacob said. “Yeah, we lost four games to one. Not good. But to a team that is playing very well. They took the Lakers out four to one also with two of the greatest players in the world on their team. We didn’t have one of ours. So we can all sit here and make what-ifs, judgments, but I can’t be really upset with what happened, given that we just didn’t have our biggest force.”
Davion Mitchell: They let me go out there, play my game, and honestly, if it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t probably be in Miami right now. In my position, you kind of know that you’re about to be traded. I just didn’t know where. Always wanted to go Miami. I told my agents that. But it was other teams that I know had interest in me. And at the end of the day, I was kind of just like wherever I go I’m just gonna play the best basketball I can. It’s been kind of crazy the trade deadline and everyone’s on their everyone’s on their toes. This is always my first option. I just like this is kind of like a dream come true kind of thing. I was like, ‘there’s no way I’ll be able to come here’. But it happened.
Five minutes after the final buzzer, Warriors controlling owner Joe Lacob slid into a courtside club down the tunnel of a celebrating Minneapolis arena, complimentary of the home team but more willing than others in his organization to voice what many believed. “Disappointing,” Lacob said, settling into a 10-minute conversation with The Athletic. “I really hoped we could extend the series and I’m …” This is where he paused, understanding his next statement would come off as a discredit to the Timberwolves, but he fired it off anyway. “I am pretty positive that if we had Steph, we’d have won this series,” Lacob said.
While Brown was fighting through the screen, he grabbed Hart’s crotch, though it appeared inadvertent. “It was just two guys that are extremely competitive,” Hart said of the confrontation with Brown. “He’s a passionate, competitive player. We were tied at halftime, he’s trying to give their team a spark and momentum and the same thing with me.” Hart and Brown embraced later in the game to bury the hatchet. “I got nothing but respect for him,” Hart said. “It’s just two competitive dudes going out there and competing at the highest level. Sometimes, tempers flare and those kinds of things. But there’s always respect.”
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May 15, 2025 | 10:44 am EDT Update
