A first-half hamstring injury for Phoenix Suns All-Star Devin Booker took some steam out of what was billed as the steamiest game of the still-young 2021-22 NBA season Tuesday night between the 17-3 Suns and 18-2 Golden State Warriors.
Booker was ruled out for the remainder of the game after tweaking his hammy on a second-quarter drive to the bucket, leaving Suns fans filled with disappointment and Warriors fans filled with, well, boredom.
Dubs fans very weirdly dug up a 2010 tweet ("very sloppy bball being played right now") from two-time MVP Stephen Curry that was sent during Game 2 of a 92-77 Orlando Magic win against the Charlotte Hornets in the 2009-10 playoffs, which, obviously, the Warriors didn't make.
Also, to be fair, there were 33 turnovers combined in that game.
OK, back to the weird tweet situation: In January, former Warrior Andrew Bogut said that Curry used to check his Twitter mentions at halftime when they played together (from 2009-2016 and again in 2019) to try to motivate himself after poor first halves. So, of course, very-online (too-online?) Warriors fans leaned deeply into that possibility, blowing the 11-year-old tweet up with replies and quote tweets motivating (?) Curry to turn things around in the second half.
The Dubs superstar went just 3-for-13 in the first half thanks to a great team defensive effort from Phoenix. He followed that up by hitting just 1 of his next 8 shots as the Warriors went back and forth with the Booker-less Suns in Arizona before losing late on a 10-1 run from Phoenix that put the game out of reach, 104-96.
Warriors fans dig up 11-year-old Steph Curry tweet during halftime of Suns-Dubs - SFGate
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