With 13 wins in the past 14 meetings with the eighth-seeded Houston Rockets, the top-seeded Golden State Warriors are not as concerned about winning this first-round playoff series as they are about keeping reigning NBA MVP Stephen Curry healthy for another potential championship run.
Curry tweaked his ankle in a 104-78 Game 1 victory Saturday but still scored 24 points in 20 minutes. The defending-champion Warriors easily covered the spread as 13-point home favorites.
Golden State is listed as a consensus 13-point favorite for Game 2 on Monday at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark, with Curry proclaiming himself good to go, per Ethan Sherwood Strauss of ESPN.com. How long he actually plays is another story, though, because head coach Steve Kerr needs to have his star as close to 100 percent as possible for the later rounds for a shot at back-to-back titles.
However, it is worth mentioning that the Warriors beat the Rockets 114-110 without Curry as 3.5-point road underdogs on the NBA betting lines back on December 31.
Regardless, there are also some serious concerns about Houston heading into Game 2, especially after shooting guard J ...
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