Durant, Green lead Warriors past Spurs into second round

Olong illness.

“He will forgive me, but whenever we have a chance to talk to him it’s fine. Whenever we don’t have it, because of the obvious reason, it’s still fine,” Messina said. “There are more important things than screens and transition defense for one time even though transition defense is very important, especially for a coach.”

CURRY STATUS

Kerr didn’t want to guess when Curry might be cleared. The two-time MVP is scheduled to be re-evaluated later this week as he works back from a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee that he injured March 23 the same night he returned from a six-game absence with his latest right ankle injury.

“We’ll see. We are locked in on tonight. Steph has been coming into the gym every day working and he’s doing his thing and we are doing ours,” Kerr said. “We are just hoping for the best. Not making any predictions.” TIP-INS

Spurs: Danny Green was 0 for 5 . ... San Antonio is 2-8 all-time on Golden State’s home floor in the postseason. The Spurs were swept in the Western Conference Finals by the Warriors last year. ... The Spurs shot 37.2 percent, going 7 for 30 from 3-point range.

Warriors: Thompson joined Rick Barry (699) and Curry (652) as the Warriors with 600 postseason field goals . ... ... Durant (3,189) passed Paul Pierce (3,180) for 20th and Kevin McHale (3,182) for 19th place on the career NBA postseason scoring list . ... Golden State is 18-2 in postseason Game 5s at home . ... Green notched his 38th postseason game with 10 or more rebounds.