he said<\/a>. \u201cWhen it comes to how you approach the game and how you prepare for the game, it\u2019s all because of Steph. The way he was able to transcend it with the shot-making ability and extending the 3-point line, from the actual 3-point line to damn near halfcourt, it made you think differently of how you wanted to guard him.\u201d<\/p>\nSteph is the greatest shooter the game has ever seen. He\u2019s the all-time leader in 3-pointers, and he also has the highest free-throw percentage of anyone to ever play. At 37, he\u2019s still going strong, currently averaging 27.2 points per game while keeping the Warriors in the hunt even in the wake of Jimmy Butler\u2019s season-ending injury.<\/p>\n
Steph has missed the last five games with what the Warriors are calling \u201crunner\u2019s knee,\u201d and he\u2019ll miss his sixth straight when Golden State plays the Celtics in their first game out of the All-Star Break. They\u2019re currently eighth in the West with a 29-26 record, but Melo believes that if they can get Steph back healthy, they have a shot to make some noise this spring.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re gonna compete, they\u2019re gonna fight. Those guys are gonna compete and fight until the wheels fall off over there, so as long as they\u2019re there, they\u2019re gonna give themselves a fighting chance. As long as Steph is Steph. You still got Draymond over there, you still got pieces over there. Until they decide that this is it, then they\u2019re still gonna be competitive,\u201d\u00a0he predicted.<\/p>\n
The Warriors finally traded Jonathan Kuminga<\/a> at the deadline, and new arrival Kristaps Porzingis is listed as questionable but expected to make his Warriors debut tonight. If he and Steph can get and stay healthy, we\u2019ll see if the Warriors can prove Carmelo right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s no doubt that the NBA team of the past decade is the Golden State Warriors, and though…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,3628,479,164,4025,4024,6,932,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-611925","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-carmelo-anthony","10":"tag-golden-state","11":"tag-golden-state-warriors","12":"tag-goldenstate","13":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-steph-curry","16":"tag-warriors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116098211985823427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611925","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=611925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}