Leave it to Northern California basketball to deliver a first round NBA ‘must watch to the end’ show. Sunday’s Golden State Warriors versus Sacramento Kings Game 4 duel was a back-and-forth fight between veterans and new bloods with neither willing to concede defeat.
The Warriors somehow held off the upstart Kings who were looking to make it a 3-1 series in their favor, putting the defending Champions backs on the ropes. It took every bit of veteran skill and wisdom to overcome a young & hungry Sacramento team in their first playoff series in sixteen years.
An uncharacteristic mistake by Warriors Steph Curry gave the new bloods an unexpected gift opportunity in the game's closing minutes in which young Kings phenom De’Aaron Fox took full advantage of by draining a three-pointer, cutting their deficit to one point.
I can say as a grizzly veteran fan of close Warriors games that this one, with a one-point lead and ten seconds left, had me hanging on for dear life. It felt like being on one of those skyscraping amusement park rides anticipating the plunge just before the bottom drops out. Then it all happened so fast: Fox, Curry, Green, Fox, Barnes, “The Shot,” Clank. . . Warriors Win 126-125!!!
It Was the Worst of times, it Was the Best of times
- Dickens had it backwards.
Warriors vs. Kings schedule:
- Saturday, April 15: Warriors @ Kings - KINGS WIN
- Monday, April 17: Warriors @ Kings - KINGS WIN
- Thursday, April 20: Kings @ Warriors - WARRIORS WIN
- Sunday, April 23: Kings @ Warriors - WARRIORS WIN
- Wednesday, April 26: Warriors @ Kings - Golden 1 Center in Sacramento @ 7 p.m.
- Friday, April 28: Kings @ Warriors - TBD (If needed)
- Sunday, April 30: Warriors @ Kings - TBD (If needed)
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