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The Golden State Warriors and Phoenix Suns will square off tomorrow night in Phoenix with a lot on the line. This Pacific Division showdown features a Golden State squad clinging above the Play-In Tournament line and looking to hold there. The Phoenix Suns may be in their playoffs right now, as they need to win all of their games and get some help from the teams ahead of them to get a spot in the Play-In Tournament.
Let’s dive into this matchup while recapping both teams’ seasons and making a game pick for tomorrow night.
After a 16-16 start in the first part of the season, the Golden State Warriors have been fantastic since the calendar turned to 2025. With a 30-15 record since January 1st, the Warriors currently sit as the sixth seed in the West in a three-way tie with the Los Angeles Clippers and Minnesota Timberwolves. They’ll need to return to their winning ways after dropping a tough game at home to the Houston Rockets to snap a five-game winning streak.
The Warriors’ hopes are pinned on future Hall of Famer Stephen Curry and his lights-out shooting and while Curry may have just turned 37, he still averages 24.8 points, 6.0 assists and 4.4 rebounds per game while shooting 40% from three-point land. While you can set your watch to Curry’s production, the cast of characters around him has changed. With no Klay Thompson, players like Andrew Wiggins, Buddy Hield, Brandin Podziemski, Jonathan Kuminga and Jimmy Butler have shared the load in providing support. Don’t forget Defensive Player of the Year candidate and longtime Warrior Draymond Green.
The Phoenix Suns have a faint hope of making the Play-In Tournament this season, but they’ll need some help, as they have four games left and need every win. The Suns are reeling thanks to a six-game losing streak, and seeing the Warriors come to town probably isn’t the best sight. To say the Suns have underachieved is an understatement.
The Suns have had a solid trio of scorers, with Kevin Durant (26.6 points per game), Devin Booker (25.7) and Bradley Beal (17.0) leading the charge. However, the Suns have not gotten much in the way of scoring outside of that trio. With Durant’s status for tomorrow night in question courtesy of an ankle injury suffered on April 1st, plus Beal’s underwhelming return from a hamstring injury, the Suns are short on talent at the worst time.
With the upcoming showdown between the Warriors and Suns, it will come down to the help the Suns get outside of Booker and Beal, plus Durant’s availability in a game the Suns need in the worst way. The Warriors will have their full complement of players in this game, and they’ll want to return to their winning ways. Make no bones about it – Warriors vs Suns is a must-win game for both sides.
We’ll look to the Suns’ side in this one and pinpoint Booker to pick up a lot of the scoring slack, as he’s averaged 38 points in the last three games without Durant. In those three games, the Suns have had only one 20+ point scorer alongside Booker, so even with Beal in tow, he has found it tough coming back from a hamstring injury that caused him to miss eight games before last Friday’s loss to the Celtics.
With the Suns incredibly top-heavy and not much in the way of scoring consistency after Booker, look for him to do as much as he can as a volume shooter.
Kevin has been writing about sports since 2015 with a primary focus on fantasy football. His work has been featured on outlets like Matthew Berry's Fantasy Life, FantasyPros, Sports Illustrated, RotoBaller, Fantasy Alarm, and numerous other fantasy websites. As a native New Yorker now living in the Midwest, Kevin counts the Green Bay Packers, New York Yankees and Syracuse Orange as his favorite teams.