{"id":1901,"date":"2019-05-12T20:23:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T20:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2019-05-12T20:26:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T20:26:25","slug":"durant-less-golden-state-progress-to-western-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/durant-less-golden-state-progress-to-western-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Durant- less Golden State Progress to Western Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Golden State &amp; in particular Stephen Curry showed why they are favourites to make it three NBA Final wins in a row with a hard fought game 6 win over Houston, despite Kevin Durant missing the game through injury. The Warriors started Andrew Bogut in Durant&#8217;s place &#8211; but he contributed exactly zero points and it was left to Curry who produced his best performance of the postseason (well best second half anyway) to see off a feisty Rockets team, who really should have won this one.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1902\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1902\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1902\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/05\/Stephen-Curry-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/05\/Stephen-Curry-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/05\/Stephen-Curry-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/05\/Stephen-Curry-1024x641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/05\/Stephen-Curry-100x63.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/05\/Stephen-Curry-50x31.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/05\/Stephen-Curry-25x16.jpg 25w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/05\/Stephen-Curry-750x469.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/05\/Stephen-Curry.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephan Curry Man of the Match with 33 points<br \/>Editorial credit: Marcos Mesa Sam Wordley \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Stephan Curry scored zero points in the first half but his overall performance was the difference maker as he hit:<\/p>\n<p>33 second-half points.<\/p>\n<p>23 in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>16 in the final five minutes to effectively win the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Steph knocked down a career <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBAPlayoffs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NBAPlayoffs<\/a> quarter-high 23 points in the 4th quarter \u203c\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zERBKJAI5W\">pic.twitter.com\/zERBKJAI5W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Golden State Warriors (@warriors) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warriors\/status\/1127349163543470081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">11 May 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the scores tied at the half and the Rockets leading by 5 going into the 4th this late burst of scoring was enough to guide them to a 118- 113 win to take the series 4-2.<\/p>\n<p>This final game hinged on the benches and although James Harden &amp; Chris Paul combined for 62 points the bench only chipped in 17 points compared to 33 from Golden State. A better bench effort both in points and court time may have made all the difference.<\/p>\n<p>So its Golden State who make it to their 5th consecutive Conference Final and they will await the winners of game 7 between Denver v Portland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden State &amp; in particular Stephen Curry showed why they are favourites to make it three NBA Final wins in a row with a hard fought game 6 win over Houston, despite Kevin Durant missing the game through injury. The Warriors started Andrew Bogut in Durant&#8217;s place &#8211; but he contributed exactly zero points and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,25,35,23,22],"tags":[1692,1680,1636],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golden-state-warriors","category-houston-rockets","category-pacific","category-southwest","category-western-conference","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-houston-rockets","tag-nba-playoffs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}