The Portland Trail Blazers were a formidable, relentless and worthy adversary of the Golden State Warriors. And yet, the defending NBA champions were still able to dispatch the feisty No. 5 seed in five games with a 125-121 win at Oracle Arena on Wednesday night.
It didn't come easy by any means, but the Warriors held off a late surge from Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum before Stephen Curry drilled a step-back, fall-away three over Al-Farouq Aminu with 24 seconds to go to give the Warriors a five-point lead.
Curry, who accepted his second straight MVP from commissioner Adam Silver prior to tipoff, didn't quite resemble the player who erupted for 17 points in overtime just two days earlier. However, that's not to say he didn't fill it up.
Curry continued to shake off rust that accumulated during his two-week absence, and his night culminated with a couple of outrageous triples over the game's final four minutes to send the Warriors to their second straight Western Conference Finals, as the Orange County Register's Dan Woike noted:
Curry finished with 29&nbs ...
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