Warriors vs Mavericks

The Golden State Warriors will play against the Dallas Mavericks tonight for Game 5 of the series at 6pm PT in San Francisco.

The deficit proved to be too much for Golden State to overcome as they lost the chance to sweep Dallas with the series now at 3-1. The big differences in this game as opposed to the previous ones were Golden State’s energy level and Dallas’ ability to make threes. The game will be played at 6pm PT in San Francisco and can be watched on TNT.

Golden State star Stephen Curry admitted his team might have been slow to pick up on the Mavericks' new look, but he vowed it'll be fully prepared in Game 5. " ...

Moody scored all of his seven points in the second quarter with his 3-pointer giving Golden State a 56-38 lead. ''We need Luka to go big a lot of nights just to give us a chance, and unfortunately the ball just didn't go for him tonight,'' coach Jason Kidd said. Doncic had a rough start, shooting 2 for 10 in the first quarter. After missing the playoffs in 2020 and '21 in back-to back injury-plagued seasons, the Warriors are returning to a familiar stage. Golden State is now 9-0 at the Chase Center this postseason, tying the 2017 team for the the most consecutive home wins in a single postseason in NBA history. After Golden State missed the postseason in both seasons he was sidelined, Thompson finally returned to action in January.

Stephen Curry and the Warriors are back in the NBA Finals for the sixth time in eight years.

Golden State's bid to win the 2019 Finals effectively ended when Thompson tore his ACL. Now, their trip to the 2022 Finals is coming thanks to perhaps the best game of Thompson's postseason. After two years away, one of the greatest heat checks in NBA history will take his talents to the league's biggest stage and compete for his fourth ring. There were moments in the past few months in which it looked like Thompson would struggle to stay on the floor in games like this. In a sense, this is the sort of Finals run Kerr has always wanted to make. LeBron James couldn't do it alone in Cleveland. The Mavericks have done well to surround Doncic with an array of shooters and defenders. The Warriors had more of it than anyone else. The Mavericks hung around early and made a run toward the end of the third quarter to briefly cut the deficit to single digits, but they never led on the night. Curry was the only Warrior to earn All-NBA honors, and they're playing against one of the best players in the NBA. Many teams, under similar circumstances, would've folded without their best player playing at his best. Kevon Looney's 18 rebounds gave the Warriors a plus-17 margin on the glass. The Golden State Warriors are heading back to the NBA Finals for the sixth time in eight seasons. You can attribute Golden State's 3-1 collapse against the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016 to many things, but a hobbled Stephen Curry would be high on that list, so when Curry seemingly tweaked his ankle early in Game 5 with yet another 3-1 lead, Warriors fans had every right to panic. They punched their ticket on Thursday night with a comfortable 120-110 win over the Dallas Mavericks in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals to win the series, 4-1.