Steve Kerr's going to start Stephen Curry in Warriors-Pelicans Game 3, which seems smart

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Despite opening the Western Conference semifinals with consecutive wins, Steve Kerr announced Wednesday that he’ll be changing the Golden State Warriors’ starting lineup for Game 3 of their second-round series against the New Orleans Pelicans on Friday night. When Stephen Curry made his return to the lineup in Game 2 after nearly six weeks on the shelf with a Grade 2 sprain of the medial collateral ligament in his left knee, he did so as a reserve, coming off the bench for the first time since Game 4 of the 2016 Western semis, when he returned from another knee sprain to bury the Portland Trail Blazers. After a similarly dynamic Curry performance on Tuesday — 28 points on 15 shots in 27 minutes to help the Warriors take a 2-0 lead — Kerr evidently came away convinced that Steph’s stint as a second-unit spark plug shouldn’t last any longer.

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