The NBA world was very excited for a highly-anticipated finals rematch between the Warriors and the Cavs in Cleveland on Monday. The surprisingly struggling Warriors came in as losers of two of their previous three games and were three point underdogs in Cleveland. Boy were the oddsmakers and fans at Quicken Loans Arena wrong as [...]
January 19, 2016
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Blogs, News, Ryan Bawek
Michael Jordan is going to be pissed. Kobe Bryant, Jordan’s surrogate little brother, gave some encouragement to Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors following the Los Angeles Lakers’ 116-98 loss to the NBA’s best, per ESPN.com’s Baxter Holmes: “You guys have got to go ahead and make history,” Bryant told Curry. “I got to [...]
January 15, 2016
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It has to suck playing in the NBA’s Western Conference. Unless you’re the Warriors or Spurs. Then it’s probably pretty chill. For those other 13 squads? Yeah, it sucks. Especially for the good-to-great contingents. The Clippers. The Thunder. The Mavericks, too. They scrap and they claw and they win, and yet no matter what they [...]
January 12, 2016
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Stephen Curry is a warrior. He’s also a Golden State Warrior. Curry re-aggravated a left knee injury against the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night that’s been giving him problems over the last two weeks. He missed games against the Dallas Mavericks and Houston Rockets and was limited to just 14 minutes against the Denver [...]
January 6, 2016
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Draymond Green is on fire. During the Golden State Warriors’ 111-101 victory over the Charlotte Hornets on Monday night, Green notched yet another triple-double, this time going for 13 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists. It was the eighth triple-double of his young NBA career, and his third in the last three games. In case [...]
January 5, 2016
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Oh, hello there, 2016. We almost didn’t see you come in, not with the 2015-16 NBA season unfolding exactly how it wasn’t supposed to. Sure, we knew the Spurs would be really good, even if we didn’t know they’d be historically awesome. We knew the Warriors would be great. We knew the Cavaliers would be, too. [...]
January 5, 2016
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Stephen Curry is the NBA’s foremost pioneer. He is changing the way the game is played, impacting the on-court virtues and skill sets coaches and teams and analysts and fans value in a superstar. You might say he’s the Steve Jobs or Bill Gates of the Association. And if you won’t say that, Dallas Mavericks [...]
December 30, 2015
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Golden State Warriors All-Star guard Klay Thompson says he’s the best shooting guard in the NBA today, a drum he’s been beating the last few years, especially since the physical decline of the great Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers. When asked about his starting five at each position today, Klay named Curry at [...]
December 30, 2015
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Goodbye, 2015. It’s been real, often fun. Sometimes even real fun. But it’s time we bid you adieu. Just not before we send you off with one last batch of NBA power rankings. The Association is niche-y as ever these days. The championship contender pool contains only Cleveland, Golden State and San Antonio, with Oklahoma [...]
December 29, 2015
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Harrison Barnes is just about ready to play. But not quite. The Golden State Warriors combo forward has missed the last 13 games, including Monday night’s blowout win over the Sacramento Kings, as he tends to an ankle injury. Some speculated that he might return for the team’s Christmas Day square dance with the Cleveland [...]
December 29, 2015
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