{"id":31052,"date":"2025-05-13T23:40:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/31052\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T23:40:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:40:23","slug":"draymond-green-claims-golden-state-warriors-star-does-not-look-like-good-basketball-player-one-of-the-toughest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/31052\/","title":{"rendered":"Draymond Green claims Golden State Warriors star does not look like good basketball player, &#8216;one of the toughest&#8230;&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Draymond Green has paid tribute to one of the Golden State Warriors stars the team will need in the upcoming match-ups.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nbaanalysis.net\/tag\/golden-state-warriors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> won on the road against the <a href=\"https:\/\/nbaanalysis.net\/tag\/minnesota-timberwolves\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> to steal a march on their playoff opponents.<\/p>\n<p>But unfortunately for the Warriors, their win came at a cost with Stephen Curry sustaining a hamstring injury, that leaves <a href=\"https:\/\/nbaanalysis.net\/nba-fans-all-share-concern-as-stephen-curry-leaves-game-1-of-warriors-timberwolves-with-hamstring-injury-series-over\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fans fearing the series is over<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Curry did not play in the second half, although his team were still able to squeeze out a 99-88 victory.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"941\" height=\"627\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2192742968-941x627.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Eakin Howard\/Getty Images\" \/>Photo by Eakin Howard\/Getty ImagesPat Spencer steps up for Warriors<\/p>\n<p>Head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/nbaanalysis.net\/tag\/steve-kerr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Kerr<\/a> has already labelled <a href=\"https:\/\/nbaanalysis.net\/steve-kerr-names-stephen-curry-replacement-for-game-2-as-crushed-star-guard-unlikely-to-play-for-warriors-hes-a-gamer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Spencer as the Golden State Warriors\u2019 replacement<\/a> for Stephen Curry while he is sidelined.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer played 11 minutes and scored four points, also grabbing two rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>He has the trust of his teammate Draymond Green, who said after the game that Spencer has a few things working against him.<\/p>\n<p>Green explained, via Anthony Slater: \u201cPat (Spencer) is a damn good basketball player. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know it don\u2019t look like it\u2026The No. 61 don\u2019t help\u2026But Pat is one of the toughest players on this team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Draymond Green: &#8220;Pat (Spencer) is a damn good basketball player. I know it don&#8217;t look like it\u2026The No. 61 don&#8217;t help\u2026But Pat is one of the toughest players on this team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anthonyVslater\/status\/1919977866357338307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 7, 2025<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<p> Pat Spencer played another sport<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nbaanalysis.net\/steve-kerr-makes-feelings-clear-on-pat-spencer-performance-for-warriors-one-of-the-greatest-lacrosse-players-of-all-time\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Spencer was an elite lacrosse player<\/a> before switching to pursue his basketball dream, beginning his career in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>After landing a spot in the G League with Washington Wizards\u2019 development squad, he latched onto the Santa Cruz Warriors in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer made his NBA debut in 2023-24, playing six games, and has gone onto play 39 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>And now he is playing in the NBA Playoffs for the first time, with an unlikely spotlight on him after Curry\u2019s injury.<\/p>\n<p>Now in his third year in the Warriors\u2019 system, he has earned the trust of the organization, and Draymond Green\u2019s comments show a level of respect too.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Draymond Green has paid tribute to one of the Golden State Warriors stars the team will need in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,200,479,164,4025,4024,6,11,868,255,574],"class_list":{"0":"post-31052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golden-state-warriors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-draymond-green","10":"tag-golden-state","11":"tag-golden-state-warriors","12":"tag-goldenstate","13":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-playoffs","16":"tag-pat-spencer","17":"tag-warriors","18":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114503170514257284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}