{"id":2752,"date":"2026-04-19T05:20:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2752"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:20:46","slug":"the-twilight-of-stephen-currys-warriors-eliminated-by-phoenix-in-the-play-offs-for-the-play-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2752","title":{"rendered":"The twilight of Stephen Curry&#8217;s Warriors, eliminated by Phoenix in the play-offs for the play-offs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div layout=\"desktop\">\n<p>It&#8217;s been several seasons now since the Golden State Warriors&#8217; era of domination ended in the NBA. But this time, it&#8217;s dusk for the San Francisco franchise and its guide Stephen Curry, crowned four times in the last 10 seasons and who will not even participate in the play-offs this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors lost Friday in the play-offs at the Phoenix Suns (111-96), who will face the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round. Condemned to compete in this play-in for the third season in a row, the Californians had already not made the cut in 2024.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-media\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Est-ce un scandale si Wembanyama n\u2019est pas d\u00e9sign\u00e9 MVP ?\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ultimedia.com\/deliver\/generic\/iframe\/mdtk\/01357940\/zone\/1\/src\/38u3ur5\/showtitle\/1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>This is a big disappointment to end Stephen Curry&#8217;s 17th season. Heroic on Wednesday for the Clippers, the 38-year-old leader, who returned at the start of April after two months of absence due to a right knee injury, was well contained by the Suns defense on Friday, compiling only 17 points (3 of 10 from afar) and 4 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Golden State, still champion in 2022, is ending a frustrating season marked by numerous injuries, in addition to that of Curry, in an aging workforce that knows its time is running out. Jimmy Butler ruptured the cruciate ligaments in his right knee in January, Al Horford and Kristaps Porzingis in particular missed numerous games.<\/p>\n<p>All the news from the NBA<\/p>\n<p>Curry, who still has one year of contract, has never mentioned retirement, and hopes to have another chance to claim a 5th title next year. With Draymond Green and coach Steve Kerr at his side? \u201cI don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going to happen next, but I love you guys to death,\u201d Kerr told his two players before leaving the court Friday night, in a moment captured by NBA cameras.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been several seasons now since the Golden State Warriors&#8217; era of domination ended in the NBA. But this time, it&#8217;s dusk for the San Francisco franchise and its guide Stephen Curry, crowned four times in the last 10 seasons and who will not even participate in the play-offs this year. The Warriors lost Friday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}