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...
This piece is part of The Athletic’s Anonymous Player Poll. Read the full poll . It was two games, but it changed everything. The came close to beating the this season, yet Denver outlasted them both times. Despite everything the Celtics accomplished this year, those two Nuggets wins made the difference. The majority of the players surveyed in The Athletic’s picked the Nuggets to win the championship. Advertisement This anonymous poll has asked players across the league since 2019 for their...
There wasn’t any seed-stealing for the Golden State Warriors in Sunday’s regular-season finale. But there was a major heist between teammates, courtesy of Klay Thompson. Thompson snatched the NBA’s free-throw title from Steph Curry on the season’s final day, thanks to a perfect 5-for-5 performance at the charity stripe. With those baskets, Thompson finished the season with a 92.7% free-throw percentage, edging ahead of Curry’s 92.3%. As one Redditor pointed out, Thompson didn’t even qualify for...
The Sacramento Kings are still alive. Led by huge performances from Keegan Murray (32 points, nine rebounds, 8-of-13 from three) and De'Aaron Fox (24 points,
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...
With the playoff field set, here's a look at the lowest seeds to ever reach and win the NBA Finals.
(FOX40.COM) -- The Golden State Warriors' season ended Tuesday night in Sacramento with a 118-94 loss to the Sacramento Kings in the NBA's Play-In Tournament. For Sacramento, the win was sweet revenge after the Warriors eliminated them from the NBA playoffs last year. The Kings will next go to New Orleans to play the Pelicans []
Sacramento advanced to play at New Orleans on Friday night.
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...
Is this the year the Celtics win Banner 18? We asked Strat-O-Matic to simulate the 2024 NBA playoffs, and you won't want to miss how it all ends.
The Celtics are done with the regular season, and they finished with their