Stephen Curry scored 26 points before leaving the game with an ankle injury in the final minute as the Golden State Warriors beat the Washington Wizards 122-114

Victor Wembanyama spoke about the upcoming NBA Paris Games, trying his best to contain excitement for the same

There are the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Houston Rockets and the Memphis Grizzlies atop the NBA’s Western Conference. Then, as head coach Steve Kerr reiterates to the Golden State Warriors, there’s every other Western Conference playoff contender.

We’ve reached the midway point of the season which means it’s time for another tier check-in, where there’s two teams breaking away up top.

The Golden State Warriors are struggling to maintain the roster around franchise legend Stephen Curry, something the Los Angeles Lakers learned with Kobe Bryant

The Golden State Warriors have an opportunity to take advantage of a crucial stretch of home games to reignite their NBA playoff hopes.

Golden State could get a deal done for an intriguing roster fit. But will the Warriors have the appetite for this move?

But even then, one of the most talked about moments of the game was Ja Morant's dominant posterizing dunk on Wembanyama. Unfortunately, it didn't count as Morant took off after the refs already blew the whistle. Ja talked about his viral dunk over Wembanyama during the postgame conference and gave an unbothered response to the same.

Several factors make the Warriors unlikely to enter the Cam Johnson sweepstakes leading up to the trade deadline.

Happy teams are all alike, you might say, but Pacific Division teams are all unhappy in their own way.

It's good to dream if you're an NBA team-builder. Unfortunately, reality usually sets in at some point. With the trade deadline roughly three weeks

The Wizards are squarely in the driver's seat for the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes. They rank dead last in the league in both offensive rating and defensive rating and Washington's focus for 2024-25 should be on moving the veterans and developing the youngsters.