Devin Booker is either actively doubting the Warriors or a true believer in LeBron James and the Lakers.
Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns shoots over Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors at Chase Center on March 13, 2023, in San Francisco.got back-to-back wins in their first-round playoff series against the Sacramento Kings, the vocal doubters who emerged after Golden State’s initial 2-0 deficit have mostly quieted down.
Tuesday, a new Dubs-skeptical voice emerged: Devin Booker. He didn’t mention the Warriors by name, but after an impressive 47-point performance to clinch the Phoenix Suns’ first-round series against the Los Angeles Clippers, Booker had a rather telling comment about whom he expects to see in the later rounds of the playoffs.
“We stressed in the locker room; we didn’t want to go back to LA unless it was for the Western Conference finals,” BookerOf course, part of this was simply locker-room hype-up, as the Suns were down at halftime. It’s true that if they lost Tuesday’s game, they would have had to go back to Los Angeles for a Game 6.
That being said, with the Clippers now out, Booker thinks that his team’s opponent in the Western Conference finals will almost certainly be the Los Angeles Lakers, meaning that he not only thinks the LA-Memphis series is a foregone conclusion but also thinks the Warriors aren’t making it past the second round, even if they come back to beat the Kings.
That would be a bit of a departure from how FiveThirtyEight's model sees things. In the wake of their two wins at home, the Warriors’ chances of reaching the Western Conference finals are the highest among every team in the West not named the Nuggets,
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