{"id":711804,"date":"2026-04-16T14:21:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/711804\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:21:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:21:39","slug":"in-warriors-win-al-horford-did-one-of-the-most-difficult-things-in-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/711804\/","title":{"rendered":"In Warriors\u2019 win, Al Horford did \u2018one of the most difficult things in sports\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INGLEWOOD \u2014 The Warriors had been outscored by 21 points during Al Horford\u2019s minutes when the veteran big man took the floor for his final stint to begin the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Horford had two points in 16 minutes and had missed all three of his attempts from 3.<\/p>\n<p>What followed helped the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/16\/sports\/steph-curry-leads-warriors-to-126-121-win-over-clippers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warriors<\/a> secure a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/16\/sports\/warriors-win-wild-play-in-game-vs-clippers-to-advance-to-play-suns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">126-121 win<\/a> over the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/16\/sports\/the-clippers-curse-continues-after-l-a-blows-13-point-4th-quarter-lead-to-steph-curry-warriors-in-play-in-collapse\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clippers<\/a> in their play-in game Wednesday night \u2014 and led to Steve Kerr praising Horford for \u201cone of the most difficult things to do in sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39104261\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2270999515.jpg\" alt=\"Al Horford handles the ball during the game against the LA Clippers.\" class=\"wp-image-39104261\"  \/>Al Horford of the Golden State Warriors handles the ball during the game against the LA Clippers on April 15, 2026 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Juan Ocampo\/NBAE via Getty Images) NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Horford went from the brickyard to the craft store \u2014 nothing but net on all four of his 3-point attempts as the Warriors closed a double-digit fourth-quarter deficit.<\/p>\n<p>His fourth 3 of the quarter gave Golden State its first lead since early in the second quarter, 117-115, with 2:12 to play. The Warriors outscored the Clippers by 14 during Horford\u2019s fourth-quarter minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re having a rough night through three quarters, to just flip it and all of a sudden start draining shots and making defensive plays,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cHe completely turned his own performance around. \u2026 When it was Al\u2019s turn to come in, the way he flipped the switch from what was a cold night to knocking down all those shots \u2013 a big 3 to give us the lead. Al was absolutely brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD \u2014 The Warriors had been outscored by 21 points during Al Horford\u2019s minutes when the veteran big&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[869,7,160,479,164,4025,4024,135,6,66,863,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-711804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golden-state-warriors","8":"tag-al-horford","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-golden-state","12":"tag-golden-state-warriors","13":"tag-goldenstate","14":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","15":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-steve-kerr","19":"tag-warriors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116414834186933937","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711804","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=711804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}