— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) April 18, 2021
Saturday night provided a brilliant game. The 119-114 Warriors loss featured 47 points from Stephen Curry and 44 from Jayson Tatum, with both teams trading blows into the final seconds. It was marred, however, by two late injuries to Curry and Juan Toscano-Anderson.
Curry tweaked his left ankle how he has many times before, as it gave out on him and rolled to his left at the start of the fourth quarter. Minutes later, Toscano-Anderson went flying over the scorers table to save the ball and set up a Curry three. In doing so, he suffered a reportedly significant laceration, and what the Warriors have announced was a concussion.
Juan Toscano-Anderson update: pic.twitter.com/diJnvnBKvP
— Warriors PR (@WarriorsPR) April 18, 2021
Toscano-Anderson took to Twitter after the game to thank fans for well wishes and saying he would have dove over the table again “ten times out of ten!”
I’m A1, thanks for the wishes. And if I had to do it again, I would! Ten times out of ten!
— Juan Toscano Anderson (@juanonjuan10) April 18, 2021
After the game, every member of the Warriors who was asked gave the highest possible praise to Toscano-Anderson.
Steve Kerr seemed to get a bit emotional talking about it:
“That’s a competitor. Juan is a guy, you want that guy on your team.”
Curry said that Toscano-Anderson joined his teammates in the locker room after the game:
“He’s special. I don’t know how many stitches he had. He has to go through all these tests now for concussion-type stuff. He came in the locker room, gave us so much energy and positivity even despite what he’s going through and that play speaks to who he is as a person and a player. He’ll fight to the end, give us everything he’s got. He’s one of a kind, for sure.”
Draymond Green credited how Toscano-Anderson has been making reads on the court, describing his pending absence as a “big loss.”
“That’s Juan… For him to go over the scorer’s table like that, that sums up who he is. That sums up how he got here… That’s a big loss for us.”
Here are Kerr, Curry and Draymond on the JTA hustle save and crash landing into the scorer's table that saved them a possession, got Curry a 3 but left JTA needing stitches in his head pic.twitter.com/F7eqF1ouhn
— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) April 18, 2021