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Warriors’ beauty rest could be key in ugly series

San Francisco Chronicle
Published May 2, 2015 at 5:45 PM
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Who knew the NBA playoffs could be so relaxing?The Giants squashed a championship run into a calendar month.[...] the NBA asks teams to win 16 games in, oh, 62 days, give or take.The Warriors, who haven't played for a week and who will play exactly two games in 14 days, have been on a working vacation.Completely and utterly different from those sweet New Orleans Pelicans, who put up a nice fight but succumbed in four games.The Warriors are still favored in this matchup, but this is the postseason.In 2011, the eighth-seeded Grizzlies took down the San Antonio Spurs 4-2 before losing in seven games to the Oklahoma City Thunder.In 2013, the fifth-seeded Grizzlies beat the Clippers in the first round and then took out top seed Oklahoma City in five games.The Spurs got payback with a sweep of Memphis in the Western Conference finals.Marc Gasol, Zach Randolph and Mike Conley — who might play despite a fractured face (and you won't have to pay $100 on pay-per-view to see him).The Grizzlies are vastly more experienced than the Warriors when it comes to postseason play."I think it's a calming, relaxing feeling coming into the playoffs," said Vince Carter, the Grizzlies' 38-year-young...

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