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Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin Gregg Popovich last NBA Coach of the Year winner to win championship same season in 2013-14 with Spurs. 2015: Mike Budenholzer (Hawks, lost ECF). 2016: Steve Kerr (Warriors, finals). 2017: Mike D’Antoni (Rockets, 2nd rd). 2018: Dwane Casey (Raptors, 2nd rd). 2019: Budenholzer pic.x.com/OMgy1mXsTG – 10:06 PM
Kerry Eggers @kerryeggers Add Cooper Flagg to a @dallasmavs roster that will include Anthony Davis, Kyrie Irving, Derrick Lively, Daniel Gafford, Naji Marshall, Klay Thompson & P.J. Washington & what do have? An instant title contender. Nico Harrison must have been sleeping in a bed of four-leaf clovers. – 12:07 PM
Never was Stephen Curry’s impact more clearly illustrated than when the Golden State Warriors struggled to even compete against the Minnesota Timberwolves without him. Curry was sidelined with a hamstring strain for all but 13 minutes of the Warriors’ five-game elimination in the Western Conference semifinals, and the team sputtered to an anemic 104 points … Read more
Tyrese Haliburton: “You know, there’s just people in every sport who are like, ‘If my team’s not doing well, I’ve got to talk negative about somebody else,’ or, ‘Hey, he’s doing well against my team—I’ve got to talk negative about him.’ That’s just how sports and competition work. I mean, we all—everybody has critics. You … Read more
When the Minnesota Timberwolves traded Karl-Anthony Towns to the New York Knicks last October, it was covered, almost entirely, as a cost-cutting move. The possibility that the Timberwolves, fresh off a conference finals run, might have actually gotten better by swapping out Towns for Julius Randle was hardly considered. If anything, the Randle fit with … Read more
We miss Jalen so immensely. He’s the heart and soul of what we do defensively. He applies constant ball pressure. He’s flying around the court making stuff so much easier on the rest of us because we’re able to use his defense to create offense. Whether it’s his steals, chasing guys down, blocking shots or … Read more
The Minnesota Timberwolves are back in the Western Conference finals. And the Indiana Pacers are back in the Eastern Conference finals. Last year’s conference finals losers were the first two teams to advance to the final four of the NBA playoffs this year. The Wolves eliminated the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday, their fourth straight … Read more
With Darius Garland injured, Jerome scored 21 points on 20 shots in Game 1, then went 1-for-14 in Game 2 and was the defender who lost track of Tyrese Haliburton on the Pacers’ game winner. Jerome got off to another slow start in Game 3, shooting 1-for-8, and at that point coach Kenny Atkinson had seen enough. Jerome played … Read more
Stephen Curry doesn’t have that many chances left to win a fifth championship. The Golden State Warriors know that. It informed every decision they made during the 2024-25 season. When ESPN’s Shams Charania reported at the trade deadline that the Warriors were “legitimately calling about every All-Star player,” they did so because they understood how precious the … Read more
Warriors guard Stephen Curry’s wife, Ayesha, has a successful restaurant in downtown San Francisco called International Smoke. The late Nate Thurmond, a former Warriors center/forward, once had a BBQ restaurant called Big Nate’s in San Francisco and there is now one at Chase Center. Former Warriors head coach P.J. Carlesimo had a restaurant 25 years … Read more
May 15, 2025, 12:25 AM ET MINNEAPOLIS — Julius Randle scored 29 points on 13-for-18 shooting to send the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Western Conference finals for the second straight year with a 121-110 victory over the Golden State Warriors in Game 5 on Wednesday night. Anthony Edwards had 22 points and 12 assists for … Read more
Inevitably, Curry ($59,606,817) and Butler ($54,126,450; estimated) dominate the Warriors’ payroll. It will cost the Warriors more than $2 million a week just for their two veteran stars, leaving little in the way of spending power for the other 16 spots. And much of what they do have left will go to Draymond Green, who … Read more