The Warriors do the job

The Warriors do the job

The Warriors are in the NBA conference semifinals to the East, following their success against Houston (114-81) Thursday. Subsequently, it will be against the Clippers, or face the Blazers for the partners of a Stephen Curry still recovering.

Like their incredible results in the regular season had suggested, the Warriors had way too much margin on the Rockets to suffer from the absence of Stephen Curry , injured his knee and into the side for the next two weeks. A quarter-time has also been enough Wednesday to validate their qualification in conference semifinals. Time to lead 37-20 and to lay the foundations of a blowout win, Californians winning 114-81 to close the series against Houston (4-1).

Because in the absence of Curry, the Warriors can always count on Klay Thompson to panic counters. The other artificer of champions has signed a new recital, finishing with 27 points on 10 of 14 shooting, including an exceptional 7 of 11 three-point (first player in history to play three matches with playoffs at least seven successes behind the arc). All in 29 minutes. But behind all-star Warriors was not the only one to shine, Draymond Green flirting with triple-double by compiling 15 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists, while Shaun Livingston supplemented the table with 16 points to 7 of 8 shooting.

Kerr has "tremendous admiration for Shaun Livingston"

In the Rockets, James Harden had beautiful struggle, finishing with 35 points on 12 of 25 shooting, bearded most famous NBA was too alone. So much so that it has long registered more baskets than all of his teammates ... Best example of the Texas bankruptcy, Trevor Ariza has notably signed a 1 of 8 shooting for 2 points, 1 assist and 1 rebound in 26 minutes. Dwight Howard , he certainly finished with 21 rebounds to counter but only 8 points, 3 of 13 shooting. A conclusion to the image of the disappointing season the Rockets. For the Warriors, the beautiful adventure continues. While waiting to know the identity of their future opponent (Clippers and Blazers), Californians take the time to enjoy a little.

"Each player has contributed during this series , provides coach Steve Kerr in a press conference. We are blessed, very fortunate to have a player like Shaun Livingston. It's fantastic, it's a great teammate. He made ​​a great . series is incredibly intelligent, I have tremendous respect and admiration for him and when Draymond Green takes great decisions, it makes us hard to beat.. " This in turn incensed Shaun Livingston: " It is always regular, it was phenomenal. what is gratifying about this match is that everyone participated. " and the No. 23 Warriors insist heavily on the" everyone ". By finding solutions without Stephen Curry, the Warriors will perhaps make it even stronger while awaiting the return of their master

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The NBA Argued Its French

Tony Parker, Boris Diaw, Evan Fournier and Damien Inglis were ringside to witness the unanimous tribute from the NBA to the victims of the terrorist attacks in France.

The NBA has been able to pay tribute to the France. The Marseillaise sounded so in 7 forums which catered meetings last night, preceded by a minute of silence each time perfectly respected by an American audience marked by drama event that occurred in Paris Friday. Across the country, supporters have expressed support to the four present french on the floor on this occasion.



But it is still in extremely specific conditions that Tony Parker, Boris Diaw, Evan Fournier and Damien Inglis had to do their job. If the latter did not participate in the victory of the Milwaukee Bucks in double overtime (108-105, a.p.) against the Cleveland Cavaliers Le Bron James, he sported a T-Shirt 'Pray for Paris' during his warm-up, explaining that he would not speak until later on this tragedy.



On the side of San Antonio, where the Spurs have emerged against the Philadelphia Sixers (92-83), the emotion was impossible to hide on the faces of Boris Diaw, the captain of the team of France, with Tony Parker, star of the Tricolor selection, at the time when their national anthem was played AT & T Center. "It's nice and touching to see all this solidarity here and around the world. My friends and my family are going well, but we know all someone who has lost a loved one. I am lucky that it is not be happened to me,"said Diaw on NBA.com. "It's amazing, I still can't achieve. I spent the last 24 hours to make phone calls to make sure that the people I know are going well.At least, this game allowed me to think about something else for a while", Parker continued.

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