{"id":440681,"date":"2025-05-05T08:51:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T06:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=440681"},"modified":"2025-05-05T08:51:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T06:51:47","slug":"buddy-hield-goes-off-in-game-7-leads-warriors-past-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/buddy-hield-goes-off-in-game-7-leads-warriors-past-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddy Hield goes off in Game 7, leads Warriors past Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1200\" data-end=\"1445\"><strong data-start=\"1200\" data-end=\"1215\">Buddy Hield<\/strong> exploded for <strong data-start=\"1229\" data-end=\"1273\">33 points on 9-of-11 shooting from three<\/strong>, setting an <strong data-start=\"1286\" data-end=\"1307\">NBA Game 7 record<\/strong> and carrying the <strong data-start=\"1325\" data-end=\"1350\">Golden State Warriors<\/strong> to a <strong data-start=\"1356\" data-end=\"1370\">103-89 win<\/strong> over the <strong data-start=\"1380\" data-end=\"1399\">Houston Rockets<\/strong> in the Western Conference first-round finale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1447\" data-end=\"1659\">Golden State survived a gritty seven-game battle, and now heads to Minnesota for Game 1 of the semifinals Tuesday night. Coach Steve Kerr praised Hield\u2019s effort on both ends: <strong data-start=\"1622\" data-end=\"1659\">\u201cThis was a two-way performance.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1661\" data-end=\"1830\">Hield scored 22 in the first half, with Curry adding 14 in the fourth to seal the deal. <strong data-start=\"1749\" data-end=\"1786\">\u201cJust tried to seize the moment,\u201d<\/strong> Hield said postgame. <strong data-start=\"1808\" data-end=\"1830\">\u201cTonight was fun.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">all NINE Buddy Hield threes \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xn2xN8N6TO\">pic.twitter.com\/Xn2xN8N6TO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brett Usher (@UsherNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UsherNBA\/status\/1919237687996776800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 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>With 33 points and 9 threes, Buddy Hield delivers a record-breaking performance to help Golden State eliminate Houston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":440662,"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":[165],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-440681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/GqJ7Yi1awAARFkn.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440681","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=440681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440681"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=440681"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=440681"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=440681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}