By the "front office" I mean Olshey's highly-placed player personnel. Technically, Olshey too, but I mentioned Olshey by name.
They don't want to waste a Nurk performance on a game they think they'll definitely lose. Better to give him the home crowd to pump him up, play him only in the home games, and if we somehow take it to Game 7, then he plays in Game 7 too.
If Durant doesn't play in game 2, I think we have a legit shot at stealing that game and then have Nurk come back in game 3 to possibly go up 2-1.
That would be BANANAS! EDIT: Also, Nurk announcing TODAY he's not playing in Game 2? Total bait to make Kerr think KD can take the game off safely. We are literally using the threat of Nurk like a country uses the threat of nukes to negotiate with another country.
Actually, it's more like inflatable tanks placed strategically to make the Warriors think we're going to invade from the north, but instead..... we're invading from the south...... with the Bosnian Beast.
Nurk is gonna get lowered from the rafters on Saturday like this except he will wake up and rip off the suit blazers in 6.
I have size 13 feet and going anywhere for a week I'll almost fill an entire suitcase with just shoes, which is like 4 pairs, lol.