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Sunday afternoon's game between the LA Clippers and Golden State Warriors has the potential to be one of the biggest games of the season With the way things are

The Warriors entered Wednesday's action in a four-way loss column tie, but with a home game against the depleted San Antonio Spurs on their schedule, they had little to worry about. Or so we thought.

Golden State moved back into the Western Conference’s No. 6 seed after the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Memphis Grizzlies, 141-125, at FedExForum. The Warriors (47-33), coming off a brutal 114-111 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday night, entered Thursday half a game behind the Grizzlies and half a game ahead of the Timberwolves.

However, their end of regular season gauntlet didn't stop with the red-hot Houston Rockets in town on Sunday night at Chase Center. After running through multiple teams in the Western Conference playoff picture,

A potential first round playoff matchup out West will be the second game in a doubleheader on Friday, April 4 when the Denver Nuggets visit the Golden State Warriors at the Chase Center in San Francisco.

Since the All-Star break, the Suns have the second-worst defensive rating in the NBA (122.2), behind only the Raptors (122.9), who are actively trying to lose games and sitting their star player, Brandon Ingram, and others in an attempt to improve draft odds.

On Thursday, behind 37 points from Stephen Curry, the Golden State Warriors upended the Los Angeles Lakers (in L.A.), 123-116. They're now 20-5 since acquiring Jimmy Butler ahead of the trade deadline, and this run has us headed to the hot-take machine for Golden State's final week of 2024-25.

You might not think the Warriors are a title contender yet, but it's hard to ignore the subliminal message in LeBron's reaction to them.