The Golden State Warriors are just one win away from advancing to the second round of the NBA Playoffs.<\/p>\n
As Warriors fans know, getting even this far wasn’t a guarantee. At their lowest point, the Warriors were the No. 12 seed looking up at a stacked Western Conference.<\/p>\n
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Mike Dunleavy pulled the trigger on what could be a franchise-altering move when he traded away Andrew Wiggins to bring in six-time All-Star Jimmy Butler.<\/p>\n
Ex-NBA player omits Warriors duo from list<\/p>\n
Butler’s impact was immediately felt and the Warriors went 23-7 in the regular season with Butler.<\/p>\n
After Butler left Game 2 with a pelvic contusion, the Warriors allowed Jalen Green to score 38 points.<\/p>\n
Stephen Curry picked up the slack in Butler’s Game 3 absence and scored 36 points.<\/p>\n
Butler returned for Game 4 and the Warriors needed every bit of his production. He led the team with 27 points, 14 of which came in the fourth quarter. He was 12-for-12 from the free-throw line in the game and 5-for-5 in the final minute to help the Warriors hold off the Rockets.<\/p>\n
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For the series, Butler is averaging 26 points per game, as is Curry.<\/p>\n
However, despite the top-tier production, former NBA Player Chandler Parsons hasn’t been impressed.<\/p>\n
In a recent segment for FanDuel TV, he gave his five best duos in the NBA Playoffs. Noticeably, Curry and Butler were omitted from the list.<\/p>\n
Instead, Parsons named Jayson Tatum \/Jaylen Brown, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander\/Jalen Williams, Donovan Mitchell\/Darius Garland, Jalen Brunson\/Karl-Anthony Towns and Jamal Murray\/Nikola Jokic.<\/p>\n
There are plenty of arguments to be made for and against this list.<\/p>\n
While Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is favored to take home the Most Valuable Player Award, seeing Williams in a list of top duos over a pair like Curry and Butler may leave fans scratching their heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Golden State Warriors are just one win away from advancing to the second round of the NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[500,7,2943,164,861,78,77,313,914,1208,785,6,11,211,209,573],"class_list":{"0":"post-5174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-andrew-wiggins","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-chandler-parsons","11":"tag-golden-state-warriors","12":"tag-jalen-green","13":"tag-jaylen-brown","14":"tag-jayson-tatum","15":"tag-jimmy-butler","16":"tag-jokic","17":"tag-mike-dunleavy","18":"tag-mobley","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-nba-playoffs","21":"tag-rockets","22":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","23":"tag-stephen-curry"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114429509486051069","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174","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=5174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}