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Curry, Butler take turns taking on in Warriors’ comeback win over Bulls

Editorial Board Published February 9, 2025
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CHICAGO — Buying and selling for Jimmy Butler began a dash to the end line within the Warriors’ final 31 video games, with the break tape being a playoff spot.

They stumbled on the sound of the race gun in Butler’s debut, however recovered to go away a tank-tastic Bulls workforce of their mud.

Steph Curry went on an all-time scoring binge within the third quarter, turning a 24-point deficit right into a lead getting into the fourth. He poured in 24 factors — 4 off his career-high in 1 / 4 — whereas capturing 7-for-11 from the sphere and hitting 5 3-pointers.

Curry added to his NBA report for 20-point frames, and Butler took over in his personal means within the fourth quarter of a 132-111 comeback win.

Curry completed with 34 factors and Butler added 25 on 7-for-12 capturing and 11-for-13 from the road. Collectively, they flipped the sport so dramatically that neither wanted to play within the final 4 minutes. Quinten Publish (18 factors) and Brandin Podziemski (16 factors) additionally crammed it up throughout Golden State’s second-half comeback through which the Warriors (26-26) outscored Chicago 77 to 40.

“He made his presence felt across the board,” Curry stated postgame.

In his first two minutes as a Warrior, Butler jammed an alley-oop and muscled his method to the road for a pair of foul photographs.

He wasn’t on a minutes restriction, however given he’d performed simply 5 video games previously seven weeks, fatigue was to be anticipated. After 4 minutes of up-and-down play, he bent over at halfcourt together with his fingers on his knees, getting a relaxation as Steve Kerr referred to as a timeout.

“Tired,” Butler, 35, stated postgame. “Extremely tired. Like somebody that had a month off. Not that I wanted a month off.”

Carrying quantity 10 and “Butler III” on the again of his black and gold jersey, the wing offers the Warriors the kind of offensive juice they’ve been missing for months. He can knife his means into the paint, punish mismatches within the put up and free teammates with off-ball screens and motion. With him, the Warriors received’t have the fourth-lowest free throw fee within the league for lengthy.

Butler led the workforce within the non-Curry minutes to shut the primary quarter and begin the second. He drove a closeout and dropped off a dime to Kevon Looney beneath the rim. It was the type of play no Warrior exterior of Curry has been able to making: driving into the lane and staying below management to make the fitting choice.

Butler by no means practiced with the Warriors earlier than Saturday night time’s sport and wasn’t even permitted to take part in morning shootaround due to logistical hurdles. He wants time to study the Warriors’ terminology and playbook. He was on the market with teammates he’d by no means performed with, and it appeared prefer it within the first half.

Chicago began the second quarter on a 15-0 run, sending Butler again to the bench at a timeout down seven and forcing Kerr to name one other one a minute later.

Bulls reserve heart Jalen Smith obtained sizzling from behind the arc, hitting 4 3s and scoring 14 factors in his first seven minutes. He keyed Chicago’s 25-2 run. In that stretch, the Warriors missed 11 straight photographs, together with 9 3s. They scored simply two factors in 6:45.

Butler slot in high quality, however the Warriors round him tripped over themselves. Golden State gave up 38 factors within the second quarter and 69 within the half, falling behind 69-55. A lot of the struggles could possibly be attributed to the feeling-out course of with Butler.

Then the Bulls, exhibiting their report, melted down.

Going small with Draymond Inexperienced at heart opened up issues offensively for the Warriors within the second half, and the removing of Quinten Publish aided their inside protection. After falling behind by 22, the Warriors ripped off a 31-9 run to claw inside 4.

Curry put a cost within the Warriors with a pull-up 3 over Nikola Vucevic and a four-point play. He later poured in an inconceivable lookaway 3 from the wing, dusted Patrick Williams in an isolation and sank one other triple.

Curry dropped 24 within the third quarter, frying Chicago on a patented heater. He even skied in for an offensive rebound, resulting in a Butler putback tap-in. After his fifth 3 of the interval, Curry froze and admired his shot because it rippled via the online.

Butler sealed his man below the rim and caught a lob for an and-1 early within the fourth as Curry obtained some much-deserved relaxation. That was the beginning of seven straight factors for Butler and a 9-0 run general for the Warriors.

To provide the Warriors a 16-point lead, Butler completed an and-1 reverse layup, pointing at Curry on the bench in celebration.

Curry took over the sport and Butler blew it open. The Warriors might get used to that.

“Pretty fun having Jimmy on our team,” Kerr stated. “He’s an amazing player…He’s a lion out there.”

Initially Printed: February 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM PST

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