{"id":399918,"date":"2026-11-10T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/?p=399918"},"modified":"2026-11-11T07:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T07:31:00","slug":"warriors-all-fun-and-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/warriors-all-fun-and-games\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all fun and games for the Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Golden State Warriors keep piling up wins. More importantly, they keep piling up good vibes. The Californians beat the Pelicans 138-87 overnight in a game that was a pure demonstration of how well things are working both on and off the court. It was one of those nights that show how much each feeds the other, if they are not in the end one and the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the hardwood, there is little to say that the scoreline does not already say. Kerr&#8217;s side led by 15 at the end of the first quarter and by 29 at half-time, and the gap never stopped growing, resulting in the biggest rout of the season so far. Curry only had to play 20 minutes and still racked up 25 points, there were minutes and opportunities for everyone, and overall the Warriors once again gave the impression of being a team that works no matter who is playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Coach Jimmy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And even so, the Californians had even more fun off the court. Jimmy Butler turned up to the game dressed in the same outfit as Steve Kerr&#8217;s assistants, clipboard included, and even allowed himself the luxury of pretending to give tactical instructions while showing a message that read &#8220;pass it to Steph&#8221;. It was a move that surprised Kerr himself, but not because he found it unimaginable. Quite the opposite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jimmy Butler III is wearing the same outfit as the @warriors coaches with his own clipboard \ud83e\udd23\ud83d\udccb https:\/\/t.co\/1FQn6XU9rz<\/p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBA\/status\/2120015019408752696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Before the game I told Khalid (Robinson, one of his assistants) that we should have Butler dressed like one of the <em>staff<\/em>, since he always wears fashionable <em>outfits <\/em>and we wear a jumper,&#8221; the coach said. &#8220;And suddenly he turns up dressed like that. I asked Khalid if he had said anything to him and he swore he hadn&#8217;t, so I suppose it&#8217;s telepathy or something. It seems we understand each other even for this.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The whole squad wanted to carry on with the pantomime, and Yaxel Lendeborg, who finished with 23 points, offered his analysis of Butler&#8217;s performance as a coach: &#8220;I haven&#8217;t learned anything from him. He only taught me that if I&#8217;m on the court with Curry I have to give him the ball, that&#8217;s all. Poor management on his part,&#8221; he said jokingly. &#8220;He told us he was going to get a technical foul, but he didn&#8217;t. He should be ashamed.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On course for a ring?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this victory, Golden State made it eight wins in a row, a streak the franchise had not achieved since the 2021-22 season, when they ended up being crowned champions. Reaching this figure puts the San Francisco side back at the pace of their most successful years, and although it does not look like they can repeat the achievements of that era this time, there are starting to be reasons to believe a group capable of fighting for important things is being forged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco side crush the Pelicans on the court and have fun with Butler off it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":399919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,155,98,88,156],"class_list":["post-399918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-jimmy-butler","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-stephen-curry","tag-steve-kerr","no-featured-image-padding","resize-featured-image"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/stephen-curry.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Kiera Gardner","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/author\/kiera\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399946,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399918\/revisions\/399946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}