Stephen Curry's 50 points were a playoff-career high and the Warriors knocked off the Kings in Game 7 to advance to the semifinals.
Curry's points are the most in NBA history in a Game 7, topping former teammate Kevin Durant's 48 for the Nets against Milwaukee in 2021.
Sacramento's special comeback season is over long before these young Kings had planned. After snapping a 16-year playoff drought -- longest in NBA history -- under Coach of the Year Mike Brown, playoff-starved Sacramento earned a No. 3 seed but missed advancing to the second round for the first time since 2004. No more Light the Beam at Golden 1 Center this season.
Domantas Sabonis had 22 points, eight rebounds and seven assists but the Warriors held De'Aaron Fox in check as he scored 16 points on 5-for-19 shooting in his third game playing with a broken index finger on his shooting hand. But Curry kept coming, and Looney kept scrapping to create second and third opportunities during his brilliant series on the boards.
Kerr had no doubt before the deciding game -- and he went back to Draymond Green in the starting lineup for Game 7 with the season on the line after the fiery forward came off the bench the previous two contests following a Game 3 suspension for stepping on Domantas Sabonis. LOONEY ON THE BOARDS Looney wound up with 106 rebounds in the series -- 37 on the offensive glass. This was his fifth straight playoff game with double-digit rebounds.
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