Just two years removed from their last NBA championship title, the Golden State Warriors have missed the playoffs. This is now the third time in the last five years that the Warriors have not made the postseason, with the team failing to qualify after losing to the Sacramento Kings in the first round of the play-in tournament.Frankly, it wasn't even close. While the Warriors had a shot thanks to qualifying for the play-in tournament, they were routed 118-94 by the Kings. Klay Thompson failed to...
USA Basketball will take a roster full of NBA All-Stars to Paris in its attempt to win a fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal. , and headline a team that also includes , , , , , , , and . Advertisement “It’s an honor to introduce the 2024 USA Basketball Men’s National Team,” Grant Hill, the team’s managing director, said in a statement. “I’m grateful to these 12 men for their commitment to represent USA Basketball. The United States is home to some of the best basketball players in the world...
On Monday, The Athletic reported that Team USA is finalizing 11 of its 12-man roster for the games. According to the Athletic's sources, the players cemented in place combine for 11 NBA titles.
Let’s go back to the summer of 2019, a more innocent time in our nation’s history. None of us knew what a KN95 mask was. White collar workers actually traveled for business rather than spending all day having to mute a Zoom mic anytime they had to fart. Donald Trump was a gentle, widely beloved president rather than the half-assed orchestrator of a failed revolution. And the Golden State Warriors were still really good. I was in Oakland that June, hanging around the Lake Chalet to profile...
The Golden State Warriors have personified excellence over the last decade. Mixing a revolutionary brand of basketball with star players, the Warriors have won four NBA championships since 2015 and established themselves at the top of the league’s food chain. However, that was then and this is now. The team’s 2023-24 campaign came to a juddering halt on Tuesday night as the Warriors lost 118-94 to the Sacramento Kings in the first round of the Play-In Tournament. It’s the first season that the...
The Warriors are still jockeying to climb up the play-in standings. For
Missing the playoffs is not where old and expensive Golden State expected to be two years after a rousing NBA title run. The front office will fight that slow drift to the end.
The Warriors' best shot of getting out of the play-in could be an improved defense led by Draymond Green and rookie center Trayce Jackson-Davis.
Steph Curry, Draymond Green and Gary Payton II were inactive for the
The Golden State Warriors lost to the New Orleans Pelicans 114-109 on Friday night. It was a very tough loss considering the implications it had on the standings — with a win, the Dubs would have controlled their fate, and been in position to earn the No. 8 seed in the Play-In Tournament with a win over the Utah Jazz on Sunday. Instead, they couldn’t overcome their turnover issues — or the Pelicans’ unbelievable three-point shooting — and their fourth-quarter comeback fell just short. I don’t...
The Golden State Warriors notched a huge victory on Thursday night, beating the Portland Trail Blazers 100-92 to move into a three-way tie with the Sacramento Kings and Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference standings. Because of the tiebreakers, the Warriors moved past the Lakers and into the ninth seed, but still need to gain a game on Sacramento to climb into the eighth seed. The Warriors, who were playing without Draymond Green and Klay Thompson, didn’t exactly earn style points for...
On Tuesday evening, the Los Angeles Lakers will host the Golden State