With the NBA playoffs about to hit a crucial weekend, injuries to a pair of star players could determine the outcome of their teams series.
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The NBA playoffs have produced some big-time drama in the first few games
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but that's just a preview of what's to come over the weekend. There are three games Friday, and all eight series are in action on either Saturday or Sunday
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The LA Lakers and Minnesota Timberwolves are tied at a game apiece as they move their series
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to Minneapolis. The two games thus far have been complete opposites. And here's something for the
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stat nerds. Superstar Anthony Edwards had nine assists in the first game, and the T-Wolves won
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it easily. In game two, he had zero assists and his team could not keep pace with LeBron and company
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So what's it going to be on Friday? I thought we fell back into a lot of poor habits in game two
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you know, offensive decision making, shot selection, complaining to the refs, all that
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led to poor transition defense, ball holding. Don't complain to the refs, kids. Don't complain
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about injuries either. The Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets are playing one of the most
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physical series in recent memory. And star forward Jimmy Butler was hurt after a hard fall in game
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two. The series is tied and Butler may miss a crucial game three Saturday, but head coach Steve
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Kerr wants no sympathy. This is the playoffs. This is, you know, it's an incredibly physical sport
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stuff happens people get injured and it all part of it And there no time to lament anything You can feel bad for your player but you have to move on to what next Playoff Jimmy is averaging 18 points per game
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But more importantly, he gives the Warriors a strong option that draws defenders away from sharpshooter Steph Curry
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Since Butler's debut with Golden State on February 6th, the Warriors have a 25-8 record
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It'll be tough to beat the two seed without him. Likewise for the Memphis Grizzlies, who had a 29-point lead on Oklahoma City Friday
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when point guard John Morant left after taking his own scary fall, attempting a dunk
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The Thunder proceeded to pull off the second-largest comeback in NBA playoff history
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and now they lead the series three games to none. They'll go for the sweep Saturday in Memphis
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They built a 29-point lead in the half, so we knew all we had to do was build our own 29-point lead
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You know what I mean? so like if they can build it we can erase it and that's how we see it and now that's what we did
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we just had to plug away at it as dominant as the thunder have been in their series the top two teams
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in the east have been equally impressive boston and cleveland both have 2-0 series leads the
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celtics will try to make it 3-0 friday night in orlando and the calves will try to do the same
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saturday in miami by the end of the weekend we could very well have a couple teams on their way
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to Cancun or going fishing as the players like to say. For Straight Arrow News, I'm Chris Francis
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