Community Picks: Oklahoma City Thunder 0% vs Golden State Warriors 0%

(Reuters) - Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr has played down suggestions that point guard Stephen Curry is nursing an injury that is hampering his performances in the Western Conference Finals. The Warriors, who set an NBA record of 73 wins in the regular season, trail the best-of-seven series 3-1 against the Oklahoma City Thunder, who have overpowered the defending champions. Curry injured his right knee last month and website Yahoo Sports, citing an unnamed source, reported early on Wednesday the reigning Most Valuable Player is no more than 70 percent healthy, though Kerr later dismissed the report. Continue to Article

May 26, 2016 1:28:am EST

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr has played down suggestions that point guard Stephen Curry is nursing an injury that is hampering his performances in the Western Conference Finals. The Warriors, who set an NBA record of 73 wins in the regular season, trail the best-of-seven series 3-1 against the Oklahoma City Thunder, who have overpowered the defending champions. Curry injured his right knee last month and website Yahoo Sports, citing an unnamed source, reported early on Wednesday the reigning Most Valuable Player is no more than 70 percent healthy, though Kerr later dismissed the report. Continue to Article

May 26, 2016 1:24:am EST

Steve Kerr gave his Golden State players a much-needed mental day off with time to rest their weary bodies, and he got back to work trying to figure out how to save the season against a powerful Thunder team that shows no signs of slowing down. Back to the basics, back to doing the little things that got the Warriors this far. After a record 73 wins in the regular season, the Warriors are on the brink as they go into Game 5 of the Western Conference finals Thursday night in Oakland trailing the Thunder 3-1 after a second straight lopsided loss in Oklahoma City. Continue to Article

May 25, 2016 7:03:pm EST

Despite finishing the regular season with a record-breaking 73 wins, the Golden State Warriors find themselves one game away from playoff elimination. Down 3-1 against the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western finals after a 118-94 road loss Tuesday night, the defending NBA champions will have to win three straight games to advance. Golden State would join a list of dominant regular season teams that were eliminated without reaching the finals. Continue to Article

May 25, 2016 3:42:pm EST

Some 24 hours removed from escaping suspension for his swift kick to Steven Adams' apples , whether intentional or not, you may think Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green would be more careful. Count Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr among those who felt that way. "Draymond is going to have be very careful,"  he warned reporters  before Game 4. "One Flagrant 1, and he'll be suspended." [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr:  The best slams from all of basketball] Except, "I'm never going to be careful," Green predictably told the media after Golden State's pregame shootaround on Tuesday, "I'm just going to be me and the game will play out the way it will play out." So it did, with Green on the giving end in another leg-related tangle-up, this time with OKC's Enes Kanter. That would be Green sweeping the leg of Kanter as the Oklahoma City Thunder big man loses the ball in a collision at the top of the key, leading to an early second-quarter Klay Thompson layup after no whistle was blown. As was the case with the groin kick, it's almost impossible to determine Green's intent to trip. The All-Star forward does hold up his hands and retract his legs, as if to say, "Whoops," although as with everything else involving Green in recent days, that could be interpreted as him covering his own behind. Either way, the crew that runs Oklahoma City's in-game entertainment at Chesapeake Energy Arena had fun with Green's trip of Kanter, repeatedly showing the replay on the Jumbotron during the Game 4 win . Not sure if it's to pump the crowd up or what, but Thunder keeeeeep showing Draymond trip of Kanter on big screen. We get it. — Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) May 25, 2016 With Green one Flagrant point away from a single-game suspension and the Warriors facing potential elimination in Game 5, this entanglement had some folks — namely ESPN.com's Brian Windhorst — wondering if the NBA will look into whether Green should retroactively be assessed a Flagrant 1 foul. Windhorst cited the NBA's own video rulebook , which explicitly cites a defender intentionally tripping an opponent as an example of a Flagrant 1 foul, although intent in the example provided is far more obvious: In Green's case, though, the NBA will not be looking any further into the trip of Kanter, as it did with the kick to Adams' groin, according to a league source, and that's probably for the best. If the NBA had decided to examine Green's trip of the Turkish center, the league might have entered a rabbit hole it never would have found a way out of, what with OKC's Russell Westbrook tripping Green a few plays later: After all, it's in the league's best interest to just let these plays slide and slow the discussion to a crawl, since more time was spent debating Green's kick to Adams' groin than the fact Oklahoma City ripped out the heart of Golden State's offense on the court —  a subject our own Dan Devine tackled quite brilliantly . Still, you have to feel for Kanter, who not only got tripped, but also required four stitches on his chin after apparently catching an errant arm from — who else but — Green, in just nine short minutes on the floor. Enes Kanter sporting a bandage under his chin. Four stitches he said from a Draymond Green arm in fourth quarter. pic.twitter.com/v1qngFFo1F — Erik Horne (@ErikHorneOK) May 25, 2016 But that's nine minutes more than Green could be playing if his legs keep finding Thunder big men. - - - - - - - Ben Rohrbach is a contributor for Ball Don't Lie and Shutdown Corner on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at rohrbach_ben@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @brohrbach Continue to Article

May 25, 2016 10:41:am EST