Warriors forward Al Harrington was asked if trading for Kidd is a reaction to Baron Davis getting the best of Harris in the playoffs.

"Yeah, but I don't think he can guard Baron either," Harrington said. "To be honest, when he's on his game, nobody can guard him. I'm sure that was something they had in their mind, but when Baron is on, put a center on him, and he'll post you up and do whatever you want to do. We'll see. It's going to be a good game."

--Avery Johnson feels like a marked man, at least when dealing with officials. Johnson and Josh Howard both picked up technical fouls during Denver's momentum-turning stretch that ultimately led to a Nuggets' victory.

Johnson was asking for clarification on a foul called against Howard on Carmelo Anthony. He was surprised that official Bill Kennedy followed with a "T."

"I've definitely said worse," Johnson said. "I'm the only coach in the league that says one word and gets a technical, and it doesn't even have to be a bad word. The only coach in the league that gets technicals.

"Some guys just berate these guys over and over the whole game and I say one word after sitting down for the first six or seven minutes of the quarter -- technical. And it changes the whole momentum. You've just got to have tougher skin than that."

Howard added: "He's the type of referee that does stuff like that."

QUOTE TO NOTE: "It's not exactly fun for us. We'd like to be third or fourth. I don't want to be part of that three-team (race)." -- Avery Johnson, on the logjam with Denver and Golden State for the last two playoff spots in the Western Conference.