The loss of Stephen Curry for a week with an injury leaves the Warriors looking to Jimmy Butler, Draymond Green and a culture that built an NBA dynasty to lift them past the favored Minnesota Timberwolves in their second-round playoff series.

Golden State defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves 99-88 at Target Center to take a 1-0 lead, but Stephen Curry was ruled out for the remainder of the contest in the first half with a left hamstring strain.

With the superhero of the Golden State Warriors out for the rest of the game, the sidekicks stepped up. Jimmy Butler and Buddy Hield have become quite the sideshow, on and off the court. When Stephen Curry went down with a strained left hamstring early in the opener of this second-round series against Minnesota,