Warriors-Nuggets live updates: Poole’s offense, Green’s defense lead
Warriors to Game 1 win
Jordan Poole scores 30 in playoff debut and Draymond Green leads strong
defensive effort as Golden State Warriors take 1-0 series lead
>SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA- DECEMBER 28: Golden State Warriors’ Stephen
Curry #30 is pressured by Denver Nuggets’ JaMychal Green #0 in the third
quarter of their NBA game at the Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif.,
on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
>SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA- DECEMBER 28: Golden State Warriors’ Stephen
Curry #30 is pressured by Denver Nuggets’ JaMychal Green #0 in the third
quarter of their NBA game at the Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif.,
on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
By MICHAEL NOWELS | mnowels@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: April 16, 2022 at 4:05 p.m. | UPDATED: April 16, 2022 at 8:10
p.m.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/04/16/live-updates-warriors-face-nuggets-in-game-1/

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GAME ESSENTIALS: Warriors (53-29) vs. Nuggets (48-34), at 5:30 p.m.
(PT). TV: ABC (KGO, Ch. 7).

ODDS: Warriors -6.5. OVER/UNDER: 223.

SERIES: Nuggets won season series 3-1. LAST PLAYOFF MEETING: Warriors
won 2013 first-round series 4-2.

The Warriors are back in the playoffs for the first time since the 2019
NBA Finals.

They’ll face the reigning MVP in Nikola Jokic, whose Nuggets hold the
No. 6 seed in the Western Conference.

Golden State is optimistic Steph Curry will be able to play in Game 1
after suffering a sprain in his foot in a March 16 loss to the Boston
Celtics.

If he plays, this will be the first game in which the Warriors have had
their full complement of rotation players all season long, after
Draymond Green went down just as Klay Thompson returned and Curry was
injured just one game after Green came back.

In Curry’s stead, Jordan Poole has played the role of volume scorer,
moving without the ball to find open shots and creating offense for
himself and teammates when he has the ball in his hands. Thompson and
Green have also found their rhythm after the Warriors struggled for
several weeks when Curry initially went down.

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Defending Jokic, who’s expected to repeat as MVP, is the biggest
question facing the Warriors, and they have two potentially solid
answers in Green and Kevon Looney. The Serbian big man has seen more
heaped on his plate this season without Jamal Murray and Michael Porter
Jr., and has risen to the occasion with top-10 finishes in points,
assists and rebounds per game.

But whether he’s able to elevate his team to match the Warriors with
their championship trio on the floor remains to be seen.

Follow along as reporters Madeline Kenney and Shayna Rubin and columnist
Dieter Kurtenbach break down the game.

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Michael Nowels | Digital Sports Strategist