Harrison Barnes
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4.2K1“We have a deeper team.” – Warriors overwhelm Thunder late, sweep season series
It’s gotten to the point where no second half deficit seems to matter, as long as the Warriors kept the game close in the first two quarters. They were down 80-71 in the third quarter, in the third and final time they’ll face the Thunder (in the regular season), and they outscored the Thunder 50-26 […]
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4.0K5Chasing 73: How many losses remain on the Warriors’ schedule?
The Warriors are 45-4 (.918), so they’d have to finish a slightly less ridiculous 28-5 (.848) to break the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ record for regular season wins. Which sounds surprisingly doable! Talk about a realization that borders on surreal, especially for longtime Warriors fans. 73 wins. Insane, but not impossible. Each of the Warriors’ first […]
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4.4K35Warriors would be insane not to pursue Kevin Durant
This fairly slow sports time of the year (Super Bowl corporate hype fest, NBA teams looking forward to the All-Star Break, NHL completely irrelevant outside Canada, college basketball regular season, no baseball) got a nice little boost from a Woj Bomb today. The Golden State Warriors’ plan of pursuit predates their 2015 championship run, a […]
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4.3K2“Cocky” Warriors assert their dominance with 30-point win over Spurs
What do we have to look forward to now? The first round of the playoffs? The Warriors jumped out to a big first quarter lead, maintained their blistering speed and intensity, and expanded the lead until it became big enough to rest the starters in the fourth quarter. Familiar story, right? Except this time they […]
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3.8K3Klay Thompson shooting lights-out since Harrison Barnes’ ankle injury
Klay Thompson is having a December to remember, which is remarkable for a few reasons. Thompson didn’t look like himself early in the season due to back pain. We’re barely halfway through the month. Thompson sprained his ankle on Dec. 8 against Indiana after scoring 39. If we take out the game in Milwaukee, when […]
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3.3K8“You could tell that this means something to us.” — Warriors win playoff-like thriller over Clippers
Take a deep breath and remember … it’s only the fifth game of the season. There are many more wild rides to come for the Warriors and Clippers, perhaps in games against each other (or even a playoff series, perish the thought), but tonight’s contest — a 112-108 win for Golden State over perhaps not […]
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3.4K1Draymond Green on NBA champs: “We’re still hungry”
This season will be thick with clichés. The Warriors will have to fight against what Pat Riley described as “the disease of more.” They’ll get “everyone’s best shot.” Instead of being the hunter, they’ll be the hunted. It’s going to get tedious for the players, coaches and execs, but they’ll take it because those clichés are […]
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3.5K6Beautiful, ferocious, and a team in every sense: The Golden State Warriors are NBA Champions
This was a team known for great finishes, and the last one was the best of all. After four decades of mostly heartbreak and apathy, the Golden State Warriors became champions in Cleveland, Ohio. It was an effort that represented perfectly what this team was throughout this magical and dominant season. The defense led the […]
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3.1K5Warriors change the game (and perhaps the series), dominate Game 4
Steve Kerr lied to the media, and not one Warriors fan will (or should) mind. All day he told reporters he’d utilize the same starting lineup we’ve seen for weeks, but in the minutes before Game 4 we finally learned what Kerr and his team knew all day (if not earlier): Andre Iguodala would start in place of […]
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4.8K10Mark Jackson on Harrison Barnes: “He never bought in” last season
Mark Jackson replaced Harrison Barnes in the starting lineup with Andre Iguodala at the beginning of last season, which would end up being Barnes’ worst as a professional. Barnes has talked about losing confidence last year and never really feeling comfortable in a reserve role. During the second quarter of Game 4, Jackson saw a window […]
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3.4K18Forget the Refs: Warriors getting out-worked, out-played, out-hustled by Cavs
They’re only down 2-1. A win in Game 4 would turn things around immediately, as the Warriors would have home court advantage in a best-of-three. But it sure feels like this is the Warriors’ comeuppance, the playoff misery we’ve heard about for years. It’s the NBA Playoffs Way, right? Teams and players have to experience […]
