{"id":713135,"date":"2026-04-18T11:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/713135\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:21:15","slug":"golden-state-warriors-eliminated-as-suns-stifle-curry-to-clinch-no-8-seed-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/713135\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden State Warriors eliminated as Suns stifle Curry to clinch No 8 seed | NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jalen Green scored 36 points, Devin Booker added 20 and the Phoenix Suns locked down Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors<\/a>, winning 111-96 in the NBA\u2019s play-in tournament Friday night.<\/p>\n

The Suns took the No 8 seed in the Western Conference playoffs and will face the defending NBA<\/a> champion Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday in Game 1. The Warriors\u2019 season is over.<\/p>\n

Green shot 14 of 20 from the field, including 8 of 14 on three-pointers. Jordan Goodwin scored 19 points, had nine rebounds and was a menace on defense with six steals.<\/p>\n

Booker and Golden State\u2019s Draymond Green were both assessed two technical fouls late in the fourth quarter after exchanging words multiple times and were ejected.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old Curry couldn\u2019t get many clean looks and finished with 17 points on 4-of-16 shooting. Brandin Podziemski led the Warriors with 23 points.<\/p>\n

Phoenix led by five at the break and built a 69-53 advantage with 5:12 left in third after a fast-break layup by Royce O\u2019Neale. It was 85-72 with 10:12 remaining.<\/p>\n

Charlotte Hornets 90-121 Orlando Magic<\/p>\n

Paolo Banchero scored 25 points and Orlando built a 35-point lead in the first half on the way to a rout of Charlotte in a play-in tournament game and advanced to a first-round playoff matchup against the Detroit Pistons.<\/p>\n

The Magic earned the No 8 seed in playoffs and will start their best-of-seven series at Detroit on Sunday.<\/p>\n

LaMelo Ball scored 21 of his 23 points in the third quarter for Charlotte.<\/p>\n

Banchero had 12 points and Wendell Carter Jr added 10 as the Hornets shot 5 for 20 with six turnovers in the first quarter and fell behind 38-16.<\/p>\n

Ball was scoreless with two turnovers when he went to the bench with three fouls with 7:10 left in the first half. He did not score until Orlando\u2019s lead had reached 35 points in the final seconds of the half.<\/p>\n

The Magic were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs in each of the last two postseasons and have not won a playoff round since 2010.<\/p>\n

The Hornets, who beat the Magic in their last three regular-season games, have not been in the playoffs since 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalen Green scored 36 points, Devin Booker added 20 and the Phoenix Suns locked down Stephen Curry and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,685,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-713135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-charlotte","10":"tag-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-charlottehornets","12":"tag-hornets","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116425450046828935","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713135","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=713135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}