SAN FRANCISCO — For the first three quarters of Game 4, Draymond Green thought Jimmy Butler couldn’t move due to the pelvic and deep gluteal muscle contusion injury that kept him out of Game 3.
But in a tense fourth quarter, Butler got loose and delivered 14 of his 27 points while also grabbing a massive defensive rebound from three Rockets to help the Golden State Warriors put the Houston Rockets on the brink with a 109-106 win in Game 4.
Butler still looked like he was in pain from his scary fall on his tailbone in the first quarter of Game 2 last Wednesday. But his return from a one-game absence pushed the Warriors to within one win of advancing to the Western Conference semis…