{"id":714721,"date":"2026-04-20T18:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714721\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:20:25","slug":"stephen-a-smith-gets-one-crucial-warriors-fact-painfully-wrong-after-play-in-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714721\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen A. Smith gets one crucial Warriors fact painfully wrong after Play-In failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disappointment remains high in the Bay Area after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> missed the NBA playoffs for the fourth year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>That is according to ESPN&#8217;s Stephen A. Smith, who spent the weekend at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/espn\/stephen-a-smith-booed-wrestlemania-mocked-knicks-nba-playoffs.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WrestleMania<\/a>\u00a0instead of a cursory Google search which would have told him of his mistake.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/news\/why-warriors-fans-falsely-believe-stephen-curry-announced-his-retirement\/dc5882bb1b11e82b782314bf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Why Warriors fans falsely believe Stephen Curry announced his retirement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They haven&#8217;t been back to the playoffs since that championship in 2022,&#8221; Smith said Monday in a &#8220;First Take&#8221; segment. &#8220;That&#8217;s four years away from the playoffs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Stephen A. Smith calls out the Warriors <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They haven&#8217;t been back to the playoffs since that championship in 2022. That&#8217;s four years away from the playoffs.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\/\/ The Warriors made the playoffs last year \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@awfulannouncing<\/a> ) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BhIqoytMVn\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/BhIqoytMVn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDunkCentral\/status\/2046263228301443278?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 20, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In fact, the Warriors have returned to the playoffs twice since their 2022 championship win.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, the Warriors lost a second-round series to LeBron James and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> that ended their latest title defense. And just last season, Golden State again reached the second round, where they lost to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/minnesota-timberwolves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Golden State hasn&#8217;t returned to the heights that fans saw them reach in the 2010s and earlier this decade. But Smith fudging his facts to this degree won&#8217;t make Warriors fans happy with the media.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disappointment remains high in the Bay Area after the Golden State Warriors missed the NBA playoffs for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,479,164,4025,4024,6,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-714721","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-golden-state","10":"tag-golden-state-warriors","11":"tag-goldenstate","12":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-warriors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116438423875941323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714721","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=714721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}