{"id":438874,"date":"2025-04-21T09:57:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=438874"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:57:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:57:52","slug":"jimmy-butler-helps-warriors-take-game-1-over-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jimmy-butler-helps-warriors-take-game-1-over-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Butler helps Warriors take Game 1 over Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1417\" data-end=\"1769\"><strong data-start=\"1417\" data-end=\"1433\">Jimmy Butler<\/strong> hit a clutch stepback jumper over <strong data-start=\"1468\" data-end=\"1486\">Alperen Sengun<\/strong> with 1:03 to go, securing a 95-85 <strong data-start=\"1521\" data-end=\"1535\">Game 1 win<\/strong> for the <strong data-start=\"1544\" data-end=\"1569\">Golden State Warriors<\/strong> over the <strong data-start=\"1579\" data-end=\"1598\">Houston Rockets<\/strong>. Butler finished with <strong data-start=\"1621\" data-end=\"1670\">25 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists and 5 steals<\/strong>, becoming the first player to post such numbers in a playoff debut with a franchise since 1973-74.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Like I always say, Batman comes out of nowhere&#8221; \ud83d\ude02<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimmyButler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JimmyButler<\/a> reacted to Steph&#8217;s big game with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ALaForce?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ALaForce<\/a> \ud83e\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A7NTqimEIs\">pic.twitter.com\/A7NTqimEIs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAonTNT\/status\/1914170055731953980?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1771\" data-end=\"1999\"><strong data-start=\"1771\" data-end=\"1788\">Stephen Curry<\/strong> added 31 points, while <strong data-start=\"1812\" data-end=\"1830\">Draymond Green<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1835\" data-end=\"1855\">coach Steve Kerr<\/strong> praised Butler\u2019s leadership and calm presence. \u201cHe just settles everything down,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cHe\u2019s one of the best in the league for a reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Jimmy is one of the best players in the league.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Steve Kerr had HIGH praise for Jimmy Butler III after his all-around performance in Golden State&#8217;s Game 1 win \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iaOFPZorj8\">pic.twitter.com\/iaOFPZorj8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1914183898273378642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2001\" data-end=\"2240\">Houston\u2019s 22 offensive rebounds and <strong data-start=\"2037\" data-end=\"2067\">Paolo Banchero\u2019s 36 points<\/strong> kept things close, but Golden State\u2019s defense and Butler\u2019s fourth-quarter composure proved decisive. The Warriors now lead the series 1-0, with <strong data-start=\"2212\" data-end=\"2222\">Game 2<\/strong> still in Houston.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">JIMMY BUTLER III ICES IT \ud83e\uddca<\/p>\n<p>WARRIORS WIN GAME 1 IN HOUSTON! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q4lmdPiMeY\">pic.twitter.com\/q4lmdPiMeY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1914167078418014308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his playoff debut for Golden State, Butler delivers 25 points and game-sealing plays<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-438874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Golden-State-Warriors.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438874"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=438874"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=438874"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=438874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}