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Not like his teammate Draymond Inexperienced, Stephen Curry not often makes a mistake on the court docket, till yesterday.
The most effective shooter in basketball, Stephen Curry, nearly price his Golden State Warriors the sport, and so they may have been down 3-1 heading again to Sacramento after making an egregious blunder.
With simply 40 seconds left within the sport, the Kings trapped Curry leaving him nowhere to go or cross the ball. So usually, in that scenario, you’ll name a timeout, and that’s what he did.
However there was one challenge, the Warriors didn’t have any timeouts left after head coach Steve Kerr misplaced the group’s ultimate timeout in an unsuccessful problem that even Draymond Inexperienced advised him to not do.
“I didn’t understand after we misplaced the problem that we didn’t have any timeouts left,” Curry stated. Like a real chief, Steve Kerr took the blame for the second, defending his all-star participant.
Curry nonetheless owned as much as his mistake, including, “[Coach] took the blame for it, however I ain’t going to lie: I believed it was the neatest play on this planet. I regarded on the bench, and everyone was shaking their head. It was an unlucky scenario.”
The Kings took benefit of what many name Steph’s “Chris Webber second,” referencing retired hooper calling a timeout his group didn’t have throughout the 1993 Nationwide Championship sport costing the Michigan Wolverines the chip.
With a technical free throw and a three-pointer from the NBA’s most clutch participant, De’Aron Fox, the Kings have been solely down one in a sport that at one level regarded like a certain win for the Warriors.
The Warriors did survive after Harrison Barnes missed a go-ahead three-pointer.
NBA Twitter Got here With The Jokes
As you may think about, NBA Twitter had loads of reactions to Curry’s mind lapse and Harrison Barnes’s potential game-winning brick.
You’ll be able to see these within the gallery beneath.
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