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Stephen Curry can still move, and boy can he still shoot.Because the Golden State Warriors' best player is OK after all, they are too.

Curry and Tatum both scored 12 points in a first quarter that ended with a Grant Williams’ 3-pointer as time expired that gave the Celtics a 28-27 advantage. While Porter was ineffective in 15 minutes, Looney was huge off the bench with six points and 11 boards. “We just got to do a better job executing down the stretch. Curry again was the culprit with 14 points and Golden State went up by one. Derrick White scored 16 off the bench for Boston. This after dominating the paint in Game 3. After a 3-ball in the first quarter, he flexed and roared at the hostile Boston crowd, welcoming its wrath. Our offense wasn’t as good as it needed to be and it aided them on defense.” “We wouldn’t have won without him,” said Jordan Poole, who scored 14 points off the Warriors’ bench. “We guarded well enough to win, even though Curry kind of got loose. Jayson Tatum led the Celtics with 23 points and added 11 rebounds, but shot 8-of-23. It was also his 11th Finals game with at least six 3s.

BOSTON (AP) — Stephen Curry scored 43 points to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 107-97 victory over the Boston Celtics in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on ...

Williams was listed as questionable coming into the game with the knee injury that kept him out at the end of the regular season and the start of the playoffs. “This is a tough series for him to score because of Boston’s size and athleticism, but he’s still impacting the game at a huge level.” Curry scored 14 points in the quarter, making four 3-pointers. Curry’s foot was an issue coming into the night after Boston’s Al Horford landed on it late in Game 3. The amped-up crowd spent much of the game booing Green, chanting an obscenity at him that is usually reserved for Bucky Dent, and jeering his many misses. Curry was more demonstrative than usual, raising his arms after failing to get a foul call, interacting with the sold-out TD Garden crowd and flexing to celebrate a big Warriors basket. “The things he does, we kind of take for granted at times, to go out there and put us on his back. “I felt like we just had to let everybody know that we were here tonight,” Curry said. Marcus Smart, who scored 18 points, hit a 3-pointer to give the Celtics a 94-90 lead with just over five minutes remaining. Andrew Wiggins had 17 points and 16 boards for the Warriors, who have won at least one road game for an NBA-record 27 consecutive playoff series since 2013. It was the second-most points he's scored in the NBA Finals. “We had to do it the difficult way,” said Celtics coach Ime Udoka, whose team is 7-0 after losses in the 2022 postseason.

The Warriors managed to tie the NBA Finals with the Celtics 2-2 with their Game 4 win, but what are the keys to gaining an advantage back in San Francisco ...

Boston must continue to protect the ball for the remainder of this series as they did in Game 3. But with the series now tied 2-2 and the Warriors once again holding homecourt advantage, will Tatum be able to assert himself on this series as a superstar should? This was a departure from Game 1 in which Green seemed like he was trying to shoot his way out of the slump. In Game 2 they had 18 turnovers which led to 33 Warriors' points. In the first four games, he's averaging 22.2 points, 5.7 rebounds and 7.7 assists. I sound like a broken record, but when the Celtics take care of the ball, they usually win games. They protected the ball much better in Game 3 turning it over just 12 times. Green has made more headlines this season for his post-game comments and podcast vocation. He finished with 43 points (7-of-14 from beyond the arc), 10 rebounds and four assists. Curry outscored the rest of the Warriors' starters 43-39. At some points during Game 4 it appeared like he was straight up scared to shoot the ball. As we mentioned in the intro, he almost single-handedly willed his team to that Game 4 win, and he will again be leading the charge in Game 5.