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Warriors Call Curry A Game-Time Decision

April 26, 2013  ·  2:44PM

 

OAKLAND – Warriors guard Stephen Curry is a game-time decision with a sprained left ankle as the 1-1 series with the Nuggets resumes tonight at Oracle Arena, coach Mark Jackson said.

“I wish I was holding something back,” Jackson said before the late-morning shootaround. “But if you look at the film, it was a pretty nasty sprain.”

Curry, who missed much of last season with a bad right ankle and has a long history of problems with the joints, was hurt in Game 2 on Tuesday in Denver as part of the night that also included 30 points and 13 assists against one turnover. When he returned after a brief time on the sideline and ended up playing 42 minutes, there appeared to be no reason for concern.

But the team’s leading scorer during the regular season, and No. 3 in the league in 3-point percentage sat out practice Thursday, raising the level of concern. Friday, he was getting treatment and unavailable to the media.

Jarrett Jack, one of the top sixth men in the league, will start at point guard if Curry is unable to play. Kent Bazemore, who averaged 4.4 minutes a game in the regular season and logged a combined two minutes the first two outings against the Nuggets, will be thrust into the rotation as part of a bench already thinned by the loss of power forward David Lee to a hip injury in Game 1.

“It will be a combined decision as usual,” Jackson said of making the call on Curry. “The doctors, the trainers, Steph, this organization, myself will make a decision. And it won’t just be he says ‘I’m fine.’ He’s going to have to go on the court, warm up with people looking at him, and then take a look at his ankle and make a decision.

“I’m not going to agree that he’s Kobe-ish. But we’ve had this tug-of-war quite a bit. At the end of the day, he knows that I have his best interests. Even in Game 2, when he says he’s fine, I send my assistant, Pete Myers. ‘Take him in the tunnel, run him, let me know what you think.’ Steph knows he’s in trouble because I hand-pick Pete. It happened in Toronto. Steph said he was fine, I sent back with Pete. Steph says, ‘Let’s go.’ Pete whispers, ‘I wouldn’t play him.’ And Steph’s done for the night. I’m going to do what’s best for him.”

Curry missed the next two games after that Jan. 28 meeting with the Raptors. The injury?

A sprained right ankle.

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Curry-Thompson: Best Shooting Pair Ever?

April 25, 2013  ·  5:31PM

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OAKLAND – Not the greatest backcourt shooting tandem in the game today. Warriors coach Mark Jackson wanted to be clear he did not mean that. Not even the tempered analysis of having the potential to be the greatest ever.

Golden State’s Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson form the best pairing of shooters at guard in NBA history. Period.

That the declaration comes with typical Jackson mamma-there-goes-that-statement conviction is not a surprise. He is a pastor at a church in suburban Los Angeles and a former television broadcaster who spoke swagger. That it comes after one full season together as Warriors teammates is.

But Curry just had an electric Game 2 at Denver to tie the first-round series that arrives at Oracle Arena on Friday, Thompson has made  18 of 30 shots overall and seven of 11 from behind the arc, and so Jackson got historical.

Jackson played with Reggie Miller in Indiana. One of the Golden State minority owners and one of the voices in the personnel department is Jerry West, once in the same Lakers backcourt with Gail Goodrich. Jackson played in Utah, site of a John Stockton-Jeff Hornacek pairing.

It didn’t matter.

Curry and Thompson have really only been together one season. They may have been teammates in 2011-12, but the schedule was 66 games because of the lockout and injuries forced Curry to miss 40 of those.

That didn’t matter either.

When Jackson was asked before practice Thursday, the second of two off days before the series resumes Friday night, whether he meant Curry and Thompson have the chance to eventually be the greatest, he said, “They are the greatest-shooting backcourt tandem in the history of the game. They are.”

Better than Miller and Jackson, more of a poke because Jackson will never make anyone’s shooting list?

“We’d be in the discussion,” Jackson said. “But he (Miller) missed too many shots.”

Isn’t there something to be said for playing at an elite level over an extended period of time?

“There’s no tandem that’s done it in the history of the game over 82 games like these guys,” Jackson said. “That’s an extended period. They have a body of work. I think too much is being played of (the topic), but at the end of the day it’s my belief and these two guys are incredible shooters. That can’t be debated.”

So it’s settled. Curry-Thompson, followed by everyone else.

“I’ve been listening and watching and all the reactions,” Jackson said of the discussion his comments the last few days have generated. “You have to understand, I’m not comparing them as a tandem to the greats. But I am saying as a tandem shooting the basketball, to me it’s not even a debate. The closest I came up with that I’ve seen, John Stockton and Jeff Hornacek were two very good shooters. These two guys, when you’re talking about putting all-time greats in a room, they’re going to go in the room and they very well can come out. You can’t say that about any other tandem that’s played. It’s who they are. They were born to shoot the basketball. There’s no other two players in a backcourt together that were born to shoot the basketball.”

The actual pressing issue in the Golden State backcourt is that Curry sprained his left ankle – not the one that required surgery in 2012 – Tuesday night in Denver and is still sore enough that he did not practice Thursday. He said he “maybe” would have been able to play if Game 3 was later the same night and that he “probably” will be ready Friday night.

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Nuggets Considering Lineup Changes

April 24, 2013  ·  5:28PM

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DENVER – Coach George Karl, noting his team did not play with the necessary energy in Game 2, strongly indicated Wednesday the Nuggets will make one lineup change and possibly two when the series with the Warriors resumes Friday in Oakland.

Karl is “definitely thinking” about putting Kenneth Faried, who came off the bench Tuesday in his return from a sprained ankle, back in the opening lineup. It is a especially predictable move with the two days off before Game 3 giving Faried additional time to regain his stamina.

But the Nuggets are also weighing the possibility of benching center Kosta Koufos after his Game 2 of two rebounds, two fouls and zero points in 14 minutes.

Asked after Wednesday’s practice at the Pepsi Center how strongly he was considering the change at center in addition to the expected move with Faried at power forward, Karl said, “Probably enough to bet on it in Vegas.”

The Nuggets have several options to replace Koufos. They could promote JaVale McGee – Karl likes him with the second unit – or reach deeper into the bench for Timofey Mozgov. Or they could put Faried at center and hope his relentless energy compensates for giving up four inches to Golden State’s Andrew Bogut and keep Wilson Chandler at power forward.

No matter what, Karl wants to see increased energy in the wake of the 131-117 loss that tied the best-of-seven series at 1-1 with the next two games at Oracle Arena.

“What I told the team, I thought we played a regular-season game in a playoff intensity,” he said. “I think we’ll learn. We’ll learn that desperate teams are dangerous and desperate teams that shoot the hell out of the ball are really dangerous. I think we’re OK. I think we’re fine. I never thought this was going to be anything except a close series. Every game we’ve played has basically been a fourth-quarter (outcome) or a very small differential. The process depends on the momentum of the series. It changes back and forth. Now it’s our turn to change the momentum back when we go to Golden State.”

So why didn’t the Nuggets bring the proper energy?

“It’s not the proper energy,” Karl said. “I think we played hard. We just didn’t play playoff hard. There’s a difference. Desperation, urgent teams, it happens all the time. Chicago outworked Brooklyn the other night. I think we’ll learn our lesson and it won’t happen again.”

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Curry Takes His Next Superstar Step

April 24, 2013  ·  2:53AM

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DENVER – On a night like many others, everything changed. Stephen Curry had these thunderclap games before, but never in the playoffs, and that moved him to a new level. Warriors owner Joe Lacob had felt vindicated by his gamble before, but never like this as he searched for the explanation of what a performance in late April means years from now.

That’s the key description: late April. May or June work, too. Curry cut up the Nuggets in the playoffs is the thing. The time when reputations are really earned by anyone hoping to gain entrance into the world of NBA stars.

Curry has definitely built the resume, even while being passed over for the All-Star Game in what had to have been a near miss. He is arguably the best shooter in the game. He finished seventh in the league in scoring. He set a single-season league record for 3-pointers. He is back in the Team USA mix.

But for true credibility, for generating buzz unlike anything that could happen in a dozen of these Tuesday nights during the regular season, there was Game 2 of the first-round series and Curry going for 30 points, 13 assists against one turnover, and three steals to lead Golden State to a 131-117 fireworks show of a victory at the Pepsi Center and a 1-1 tie in the best-of-seven matchup that moves to Oakland.

And there was also teammate Richard Jefferson in front of his locker after the game. Jefferson has played 12 seasons and is in the playoffs for the ninth time, some with long runs, so he knows this is different.

“A hundred percent,” Jefferson said. “From my experience of just being around this league, it doesn’t matter if you’re an All-Star, it doesn’t matter if you’re this or that. When you play well in the playoffs, it carries over all summer long. There’s a certain respect that goes with. It’s the same thing with guys who win championships. There’s a certain elite group, an elite club of guys, that are like, ‘Hey, I respect you. I know what you’ve done. I know what you’ve been through. You’ve been to the mountain top.’ ”

And there was Lacob, the beaming owner, outside the locker room. Lacob had invested $44 million over four years in October to sign Curry — with a concerning history of ankle problems that remained a pressing issue last season — to a contract extension. It had been obvious since early in 2012-13 and now it had become official the once-risky move was now a brilliant one.

Had the Warriors waited until July to re-sign Curry as a restricted free agent, wanting proof that he could hold up, it would have cost the franchise millions more. At the very least, Curry would have upped his asking price. At worst, another team would have gone completely over the top with an offer sheet. Golden State would have needed a millisecond to match, but at a much greater cost than an average of $11 million annually.

This was proof.

“Besides the fact that I’m getting an ulcer and my neck is killing me I’m so nervous?” Lacob said, smiling.

Yes, exactly. Besides that and all the way to an extra feeling of vindication.

“Yes,” he said.

Lacob paused and broke out in laughter.

“I don’t know what else to say,” he did say. “I think we’ve known that all year, so this is no surprise to us tonight. He’s been playing like this all year. It means more in the playoffs, certainly. But it wasn’t just him tonight.”

One night was that big of a deal, to the team and the player and the entire franchise moving forward. One night was Curry taking the next step. Things had become different even if they were the same.

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Nuggets Hope To Counter Bogut

April 23, 2013  ·  2:49PM

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DENVER – The mystery man who isn’t announced his presence with four blocks, 14 rebounds, nine points (on four-of-seven shooting) in 31 minutes and a level of interior defense the Warriors spent years trying to find. The Nuggets, who probably didn’t really need a reminder, got one anyway.

Andrew Bogut is a presence. That’s hardly the stuff of news flashes after years of prominence in Milwaukee. But Bogut has been on the Golden State roster a little more than 13 months, and Saturday afternoon at the Pepsi Center in the playoff opener was the first time the Nuggets faced him as a Warrior.

Bogut had missed six chances to play against Denver in the last season and a half while recovering from an ankle injury. So Saturday was a reminder for the Nuggets — whose game is based on getting to the rim — on how hard it will be to counter a shot blocker good enough to turn a game.

“His effect is defensively,” Nuggets coach George Karl said. “How he’s covering our pick-and-rolls, how he’s clogging up the paint, how we have to attack him. We don’t want him standing in the middle of the paint. We want him to have to move laterally. We had one play where Anthony Randolph went right by him. We had a couple plays where we see that his feet can be attacked. But if you’re going to let him be a tree in the middle of the paint, he’s damn good.”

The flashback to 2012 and the first round against the Lakers is impossible to avoid as the Nuggets and Warriors head to Game 2 tonight (10:30 ET, TNT).

“Remember last year,” Karl said, “(Andrew) Bynum had 10 blocks on us in Game 1 and then we figured it out. We hopefully did a better job of getting him out of the way.”

Bynum was a primary reason the Lakers needed seven games to finally close out the smaller, less-experienced Nuggets. He had 18 blocks in the six outings that followed.

Karl likes the comparison and will plot a similar turn against Bogut. The good news for the Warriors, of course, is that they have him at all, after Bogut bruised the same left ankle late in the regular season and missed two games before returning in the season finale last Wednesday for 17 minutes. With two more days off after that game, he got to 31 minutes in the opener against the Nuggets and played well.

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Karl Recalls His Golden State Memories

April 22, 2013  ·  6:49PM

George Karl and Warriors forward Rod Higgins in 1987 (by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images)

George Karl and Warriors forward Rod Higgins in 1987 (by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images)


DENVER – It was a bad breakup in so many ways. There was hurtful talk about his drinking, honest talk about his emotions while growing into the job, and wonder about whether a friend, Don Nelson, did him in as Warriors coach to have the job for himself.

That was after 1987-88. Or last week, the way George Karl can so easily recall the conflict of two often-turbulent seasons in Golden State set against the view today that his time in Oakland helped him develop into one of the coaching superstars of the game.

It was difficult personally … and it was good for him. And now it is right in front of him. Karl’s current team, the Nuggets, are playing one of his former teams, the Warriors, in the first round of the playoffs that resume with Game 2 on Tuesday night at the Pepsi Center (10:30 ET, TNT), and so it was inevitable that part of his past would come up.

Monday, after the Nuggets practiced with a 1-0 series lead, was the day. One more game and he would be back in Oracle Arena, the renovated former Oakland Coliseum he once called home, for the playoffs.

“The first memory that comes to mind,” Karl said, “is coming from down 0-2 in my first year there to win a five-game series, which at that time was the second team ever to do it. I now have the honor of doing it and having it done to me. I think I’m the only one that has that other. Another historical stuff. The 0-2 game, I don’t know if you remember, but there was a fight after the game between Karl Malone and Greg Ballard. We lost the game and a fight breaks out. I ran on the court and a fan hits me from behind. I go running after the fan and Chris Mullin and Purvis Short just run by me and kick the (heck) out of him, take care of the fan for me. Here you go down 0-2, you walk into the locker room, maybe the hardest speech in basketball, and the speech is made for you because you just had this basic altercation. We come back and win all three games.

“I’m sure I was more – I don’t know – fiery or confrontational. Demanding. I had an insecure ego, probably. I think the thing that I feel better about myself now is my ego was out of control probably at that time. I was a young guy that a lot of people thought could coach, but I didn’t know maybe how to handle the responsibility of coaching. The next year, we made the Joe Barry Carroll trade and Mully goes into rehab and Larry Smith pops his hamstring. That’s what happens the first month of the season. I had one of those teams that could play anybody until about 10 minutes to go, eight minutes to go in the fourth quarter, and then no matter who we were playing we would lose the game. That’s a very frustrating thing to go through. When you’re a young coach, you think it’s you. Now I see teams well-coached, doing their job. The good teams turn up the defense, put the foot on the pedal and they always catch and usually sometimes go by you by five or six or 10. That was a tough year. I think ownership at that time wanted Nellie to coach. I was in a position where they felt the team needed a change and my ego might have pissed off a few people along the way.” (more…)

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Kenneth Faried In, David Lee Out

April 21, 2013  ·  8:13PM

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DENVER – It was the day the power forward universe shifted. It began before the Nuggets’ light workout on their practice court upstairs inside the Pepsi Center. Kenneth Faried, given the chance to stand for an interview session, jumped up on top the hard-plastic lid of a trash can in the corner. That was a pretty good injury update.

About two hours later and a couple miles away, David Lee of the Warriors was talking about an ache in his right hip so bad that nothing is comfortable, not even sleeping. As he stood on the sideline before a practice he would not be able to join, Lee said there is no response on that side of the joint when he simply tries to raise his leg.

The Nuggets, already leading 1-0 in the best-of-seven first round, took more control of the series before another game had been played, when one update on the power forward front would have been significant enough — two became a linkage impossible to avoid.

Denver’s starter was hopping on objects when it would have been acceptable to stand. Golden State’s was standing because nothing else felt any better.

And the difference in severity is obvious, too. Faried had a sprained left ankle that cost him all of three games, including the playoff opener, and most of a fourth. Coach George Karl said there was a chance Faried could have played Saturday, and a good chance if the Nuggets had built enough of a cushion to cushion the mistakes of a rusty player. While the health concern was a big deal because of the timing, it was a relatively minor issue.

The Lee setback, though, is huge. His season is over, even if the Warriors make it to the Finals. His chance to participate in the USA Basketball mini-camp in July, a stepping stone to making the Team USA roster for the 2014 World Cup, is over barring an unexpectedly quick recovery. That the typical recovery time for a torn hip muscle should allow him to be ready for the start of training camp will have to do for encouraging news.

“It’s a tough day,” Lee said Sunday. “I knew last night when I did it. I felt it pop. I knew we were going to get the results that we did this morning. I went to run back on defense [after being hurt] and had absolutely no sensation in my leg. It wasn’t even painful as much as it was just dead. That wasn’t anything I had felt before. I had pulled muscles or strained muscles before, so I knew it was something different. It’s a disappointing day for me. I’d waited eight years for [the playoffs], and to have it come such an abrupt end with something that’s out of my control is frustrating. But at the end of the day, our team has still got a good chance, I think, in the series, and I’m going to put all my effort toward that. It’s easy to kind of sit here and worry about yourself, but I’ve been a leader all season long and I’m going to continue to be one. Guys need to see me be positive right now. I’m going to do my best to be that guy.”

Coach Mark Jackson purposely avoided anything resembling a clear answer on his lineup response, not wanting to give the Nuggets any help in preparation time before Game 2 on Tuesday, but he has options. The Warriors could elevate Carl Landry from dependable backup to starter, obviously a hit to front-court depth but the move that would require the least adjustment. Or, they could go small and add Draymond Green or Richard Jefferson alongside Harrison Barnes and still have a true power forward, Landry, to bring off the bench.

Meanwhile, Denver gets deeper and stronger, even with Faried not having played a full game since April 12. Two seasons into the league, his energy has already become dispensable, as in 9.2 rebounds per game in just 28.1 minutes, and his return could jump start the Nuggets’ transition game that got mostly shut down in the opener.

“He’s our hustle guy,” Karl said. “He’s our rebounder. [Saturday] night I think we missed him. You’ve got two teams that like to run and when you take your best big runner off the court, it’s going to effect the flow of the game a little bit. His offensive rebounding is probably the reason we’re No. 1 in offensive rebounding, point blank. He’s the guy that always goes and is always there. Those extra points. I tell teams so many times, even in the regular season, in the playoffs it’s magnified. Little things win close games. Little things win games of equal talent. He’s probably the one guy on our team that gives us the little things as much as anybody.”

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David Lee Done For The Season

April 21, 2013  ·  1:52PM

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DENVER – The Warriors learned Sunday that All-Star power forward David Lee will miss the rest of the season after suffering a torn muscle in his right hip in the fourth quarter of Game 1 against the Nuggets. A release from the team said an MRI confirmed that Lee had suffered “a complete tear of his right hip flexor.”

Coach Mark Jackson could start Carl Landry, Lee’s backup and a regular in the fourth-quarter rotation as Andrew Bogut missed much of the regular season, or go small with Draymond Green or Richard Jefferson. More will be known when Jackson meets with the media in the early afternoon.

Lee had a hard landing with 11:34 remaining in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s 97-95 loss to the Nuggets. He was in obvious pain whole putting his hands around the hip and groin area, before getting up to shoot two free throws and then going to the bench and ultimately needing help from teammates to get to a chair.

Lee averaged 18.5 points and 11.2 rebounds, the tied for fourth in the league, and led the NBA in double-doubles.

Game 2 is Tuesday before the series shifts to Oakland.

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Warriors Await Word On David Lee

April 21, 2013  ·  10:24AM

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DENVER – The Warriors expect a critical update today on the status of David Lee, their All-Star power forward who left Game 1 of the first-round series against the Nuggets on Saturday with what has initially been diagnosed as a strained right hip flexor.

X-rays taken before the end of the game at Pepsi Center were negative, an encouraging development for the Warriors. But team officials were waiting for Lee to have an MRI exam, scheduled for today, before putting a timeline on his return.

“We’ll figure that out once the doctors get a better look at it and then we’ll go from there,” coach Mark Jackson said after the 97-95 loss to the Nuggets.

Lee was in immediate pain after hitting the court hard under the basket, putting his hands around the hip or groin area. He got up after a brief time on the ground, missed the first free throw, made the second. The Warriors took a foul to stop the clock and get him out of the game, but Lee could not make it to the bench on his own. Teammates helped him to a chair.

After a few minutes there, and after talking with the Golden State medical staff, he went to the locker room for X-rays and the official end to his night after 29 minutes, 14 rebounds to tie teammate Andrew Bogut for game-high honors, and 10 points on four-of-14 shooting.

Game 2 of the best-of-seven series is here Tuesday. If Lee does not play, Carl Landry could move from a prominent role off the bench into the starting lineup, or Jackson, if he doesn’t want to alter that rotation, could go small.

“It was unfortunate,” Jackson said. “He’s certainly a highlighted guy for us, somebody we count on. At the same time, we’ve prepared all season long. We believe in our guys, top to the bottom. We feel comfortable and confident in whoever has to step up in his play. We are, and will always be, a no-excuse basketball team. So we’ll move on.”

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Big Win For Nuggets Is Historic For Miller

April 20, 2013  ·  10:56PM


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DENVER – Never.

Not once in 36 years, one month and however many hours had Andre Miller ever hit a game-winner. He insisted. Not in 14 NBA seasons, not at the University of Utah, not at Verbum Dei High School in Los Angeles.

“Never,” Miller said Saturday evening inside Pepsi Center, now that he had. “I’ve taken a couple and missed or turned the ball over.”

Not once in stops with the Cavaliers, Clippers, 76ers, Trail Blazers and two stints with the Nuggets had he been part of a team that won a playoff series. He didn’t have to insist. It was easy to check.

“Never,” Miller said anyway. “Never won a playoff series.”

He did not cross that off the list. But he did single-handedly move Denver a step closer, and it didn’t matter that Miller was smaller and older and likely slower than two defenders between the rim and a Nuggets victory. Andre Miller against the Warriors.

Andre Miller against all odds.

With the ball out of a Denver timeout with 14.5 seconds left in the first-round opener, point guard Miller first faced Golden State rookie Draymond Green, a player Warriors coach Mark Jackson called “an elite defender” and said, “I feel extremely comfortable putting him on anybody one through five.”

Thirty-six-year-old Miller beat the elite defender off the dribble. Heading to the basket with seconds remaining before overtime at 95-95, he saw another good defender, Andrew Bogut, coming to help. Just not quick enough.

Miller finished the driving layup with 1.2 seconds remaining to will, carry and lead the Nuggets to the 97-95 victory with the clutch score, a game-high 28 points in all, 11-for-16 shooting on a day when both teams struggled to find a rhythm on offense and never came close to the up-tempo matchup most envisioned. And, finally, the game-winner. Can’t forget the first game-winner.

That it took this long to break through is no more strange, though, than Miller being in position at all. He is a slow-lane guy on a team that loves to push the ball. He is the third guard in the backcourt that starts, now that Andre Igoudala has moved to small forward to replace the injured Danilo Gallinari, fourth-year man Ty Lawson and rookie Evan Fournier.

He is exactly the guy the Warriors should have wanted to see trying to out-quick them to the basket. Except they couldn’t counter his composure, the experience at using his body to get past the first wave of defense. That made it more than Miller’s first game-winner.

That made it Miller’s latest statement.

“His passing and his winning,” Nuggets coach George Karl said when asked why he has consistently stood behind Miller. “He’s an incredible play-maker. He loves to make people better, he loves to make his team better. When the game is in that guts-and-glory situation, Andre is pretty damn great. I see things you all never see in practice, even training camp and before the season. He has such a veteran savvy or mental savvy that makes your team connect, makes your team feel good about one another, makes your team team. We don’t have many veterans on this team, but Andre is one big-time veteran.”

The Warriors, with a slower pace in their favor, missed a chance to steal Game 1 and may have lost a lot more when All-Star power forward David Lee went out early in the fourth quarter with a strained right hip flexor, an injury apparently suffered on a hard fall under the basket. X-rays taken during the game were negative, which was encouraging, but Golden State was holding off on a prognosis for the rest of the series until after an MRI on Sunday.

Miller wouldn’t let the Nuggets lose, making seven of 10 shots and scoring 18 points in the fourth quarter. He got the win. He got the memory no one can take away from him.

Never.

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