SAN FRANCISCO – Buddy Hield took ball off after ball from the last rack, and as each shot swished through the net, the home crowd cheered on the Warriors’ only contestant in the NBA’s 3-Point Contest on All-Star Saturday night. Hield missed only one shot off that final rack, and he made his grand finale … Read more
A night after Steve Kerr admitted he should have sent double-teams at Kyrie Irving sooner, the Warriors had a much more pointed game plan to beat Houston. Golden State dared Houston to shoot jumpers, mixing in zones and sagging off their shooters to negate the young Rockets’ elite athletes. They prevented the Rockets from getting … Read more
Jimmy Butler didn’t solve all the Warriors’ problems, after all. After winning the first two games of the Butler era, the Warriors dropped one of their worst losses of the season. In Dallas, in front of a crowd still reeling from the Luka Doncic trade aftershocks, against a team without seven of its best players, … Read more
Four months ago, on the north shore of Oahu, Steve Kerr’s mind drifted from the cautious optimism of training camp to the perils of Ringz Culture. Maybe it was the surfside yoga talking. “To modern sports fandom, everything is, ‘Win the championship or nothing else matters,’” Kerr and his nine rings said. “But it’s really … Read more