When your team is on the brink of elimination, you do what you have to do to win. Even if that means purposely looking to hurt other players; at least that’s if you believe the Golden State perspective. Head coach Mark Jackson is calling out the Denver Nuggets for purposely trying to hurt superstar Stephen Curry. However, Jackson then tried to back track and say, “It’s playoff basketball. It’s all right.” The Nuggets definitely played a very physical game, but dirty, that might be a stretch. The only play that can be interpreted as possibly dirty is when Kenneth Faried tried tripped Curry who was coming down the lane.
Curry is currently playing with an ankle sprain and has a long history of ankle injuries. The Nuggets are claiming that it was the Warriors who started the physical play and they were tired of getting beat up. Andre Iguodala made this comment, “I think they kind of brought the physicality to the series. And we stopped being the receivers and we’re starting to hit back a little bit. But as far as anybody trying to cheap shot, I don’t condone that myself. It’s not my game.” This matchup has suddenly become the most intriguing with all the drama between these teams. Stephen Curry was even seen getting into a verbal altercation with a Nuggets fan as he walked back to the locker room. Is this a possible new rivalry in the making?
