#1 Warriors vs Blazers, April 14th, 2010
The Warriors managed to beat playoff-bound Blazers with just six active players going into the game. Steph Curry and Monta Ellis finished with 42 and 34 points respectively for the Warriors, who were down to just five players because of injuries.
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Starting center Chris Hunter hurt his knee in the opening five minutes of the game, meaning the Warriors were down to five available players.
Devean George fouled out - the Warriors had no available healthy players - and this is where things got weird. George was eventually allowed to return, taking advantage of a weird NBA rule, but it cost the Warriors a technical for every subsequent foul on top of the personal foul.
The injured center, Hunter, was at some point thrown into the inferno until he couldn’t take it any longer. Guess what? The Warriors won in overtime.
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