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Fans Love What Warriors Rookie Did After Steph Curry Drew Hard Foul in Warriors-Rockets
If Dillon Brooks and the Houston Rockets want to mess with Steph Curry, they'll have to go through rookie Quinten Post.
The Golden State Warriors took care of business Monday night in a 109-106 win over the Rockets to take a commanding 3-1 series lead, but the victory featured some tense moments including an on-court scuffle that led to technicals for Curry, Brooks and Draymond Green.
The scuffle was started by none other than Brooks, who hip-checked Curry and sent the Warriors star to the ground. After Curry taunted Brooks, the Houston guard tried to rip the ball out of Curry's hands. Post caught sight of that escalating moment and immediately ran over and squeezed himself in between Curry and Brooks before helping to physically shepherd Brooks away from his teammates.
Post ran inside the second Brooks touched Curry pic.twitter.com/2vBxSswxvX
— Jimmy Butler Muse (@ButlerlllMuse) April 29, 2025
The Warriors rookie still needs to work on his finishing at the rim, and he's been a bit streaky from beyond the arc through four games of the playoffs. That being said, he sure knows how to protect one of his own. He probably still remembers Curry's generous gesture for him earlier this season, too.
Fans loved seeing Post stand tall for his Warriors star teammate:
That’s his carpool driver, he knows what he has to do. https://t.co/r8xpFFrBfa
— Micah Muhr (@MicahMuhr) April 29, 2025
that’s my rookie!! he did it for jimmy too later in the game when tari eason touched him. https://t.co/a3BtCivksI
— Ashley (@SC30Better) April 29, 2025
ROOKIE NOT LETTING U TOUCH STEPH https://t.co/ZSzvVt5eev
— Mr. Chase That Cheese (@yerdme445) April 29, 2025
Post got that dog in him https://t.co/9DOmhiTMdp
— Ivan (@ivan_escatel) April 29, 2025
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Kristen Wong is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. She has been a sports journalist since 2020. Before joining SI in November 2023, Wong covered four NFL teams as an associate editor with the FanSided NFL Network and worked as a staff writer for the brand’s flagship site. Outside of work, she has dreams of running her own sporty dive bar.