Golden State Warriors

Is runner-up fatigue a thing? LeBron James sure thinks so. Championship fatigue is a more accepted phenomenon. It’s when reigning NBA champions struggle to find inspiration and drive and the motivation to play at full tilt every night following their title-toting campaign the year before. Health plays a part too, since extensive postseason pushes take [...]

Klay Thompson does not have any plans to leave the Golden State Warriors. Which is good. Because he can’t. Also: Why would he want to? Klay Thompson signed a five-year extension with the Warriors ahead of last season. If he had intended to leave anytime soon, he would have explored restricted free agency this past [...]

It seems that someone forgot to tell the Houston Rockets that the NBA’s 2015-16 regular season is underway. The early part of 2015-16 has no doubt been weird. Some of the usual juggernauts are juggernauting, but this year’s landscape is rife with early-season underachievers, the fast-plummeting Rockets being among them. Can Houston regain its 2014-15 [...]

The Golden State Warriors are an unstoppable basketball force an NBA-record 16-0 start is squarely in the sights of the defending champions. Through a little more than two weeks of the 2015-16 regular season, Golden State has ripped off a franchise-best 10 consecutive victories to open the year. It’s the 14th time in league history [...]

Golden State Warriors assistant coach-turned-interim head coach Luke Walton has a message for his team. Don’t get bored. It’s a message he delivered specifically during the Warriors’129-116 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves Thursday night, but it’s also a sentiment they should carry with them as the season progresses. Here’s what Walton had to say, with [...]

Stephen Curry update: Stephen Curry is still really good. Really, really good. So good that he’s used the Golden State Warriors’ first eight games as his own personal plaything—a stage on which he has humiliated defenses, torched twine, made twenty-point quarters a regularity and, above all else, put the NBA’s early season MVP race in [...]

NBA Power Rankings are back! After a short delay, the return of The Hoop Doctors’ weekly look at where the league stands is once again ready for liftoff. There are no rules here, so check your need for order at the door. These rankings, like always, are going to change from week to week. That’s [...]

Daryl Morey has more respect for the Golden State Warriors than Doc Rivers. I kid, I kid. Just not about Morey’s respect for the reigning champs. That’s real. While appearing on The Doug Gottlieb Show on CBS Radio (h/t Larry Brown Sports), the Houston Rockets general manager said nothing but good things about the NBA’s [...]

Golden State Warriors Steve Kerr remains out of commission as he recovers from two back surgeries, and he may not be returning anytime soon. This, mind you, doesn’t seem to be reason enough to panic. The Warriors are still undefeated, still historically good, still destroying the concept of championship fatigue. Kerr has a great relationship [...]

Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob apparently slept with the Larry O’Brien Trophy at some point after his team won the championship. Some other stuff might have been happened, too. We don’t really know. And it seems we’re better off that way. From Kelly E. Carter over at Haute Living: An NBA Championship and a [...]