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There is a version of February 22 where the Warriors don’t even bother. Their best player Stephen Curry was out. Their All-Star acquisition Jimmy Butler III was out. Their prized trade deadline piece Kristaps Porzingis was ruled out that morning. Their future Hall-of-Famer and best defender Draymond Green got scratched before tipoff. The opponent was the dangerous Denver Nuggets and …

It’s rare that we get a best performance in a loss here at Golden State Of Mind, but in a year where the Warriors were short handed and in need of desperate help, you gotta spotlight great contributions regardless. Especially when they come from a rookie like Will Richard against the Sacramento Kings. This entry is about happened inside a …

So it’s the New York Knicks vs. the San Antonio Spurs for all of Adam Silver’s marbles, rings and trophies. After record-breaking TV audiences justified by great games, the Spurs joined the Knicks Saturday in the NBA Finals will begin Wednesday night in San Antonio. Then after two games in Texas, the best-of-seven heads to New York a week from …

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander plans to let Sam Presti cook this summer. The two-time MVP and one-time NBA champion assures the media that he will provide no input on offseason decisions as the Thunder seek to reclaim championship status in the league following their seven-game loss to the Spurs in the Western Conference finals. Advertisement The Thunder held their exit interviews on …

The Spurs are so much more than just Victor Wembanyama. He gets the vast majority of the attention, given his stature as a burgeoning face of the league and must-watch skill set as a 7-foot-4 unicorn. At his best, he impacts the game more than any other star with his scoring, defending and rebounding prowess. Advertisement But the Spurs wouldn’t …

Serious question: are the Sacramento Kings a basketball franchise right now or postgraduate NBA talent pipeline? Have we realized that they at one point had and let go of Tyrese Haliburton (NBA Finals last year), De’Aaron Fox, Mike Brown, and Harrison Barnes (all in the NBA Finals this year)? In Sactown, players arrive with potential and coaches arrive with ideas. …

You’ll notice a trend in these homages to Golden State Warriors players best nights from last season. Many of them came with the team in injury shambles. This entry into the series is about Quinten Post answering the call. There is a version of Post’s career where December 8 never happens. Where the Warriors keep him in Santa Cruz , …

So, you saw the title above. Why ask it? We live in a world which is human. Things happen in life. Maybe Monumental Basketball President or Washington Wizards General Manager Will Dawkins have a change of heart and pick someone not named AJ Dybantsa, Darryn Peterson, Cameron Boozer or Caleb Wilson. What does it mean, and why? Advertisement According to FanDuel’s draft …

The Los Angeles Clippers don’t necessarily have to hit the reset button after a mediocre 2025-26 season but will need to make the right decisions to replenish their roster for the future. The Clippers will enter the NBA draft with the fifth overall pick on Tuesday, June 23. Advertisement It’s the franchise’s lowest draft selection since picking Oklahoma’s Blake Griffin with …

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — It’s official: The NBA Finals logos are back at the NBA Finals. With no fanfare other than a social media post, the NBA announced Sunday that the image of the Larry O’Brien Trophy — the one given to the winner of the finals — will be painted at midcourt for games at both the Frost Bank …

The San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks will face off to decide who becomes the new NBA champion in a reedition of the 1999 Finals. This time, it will be Victor Wembanyama and a young supporting cast trying to win their first ring instead of Tim Duncan and David Robinson for the Silver and Black, and Jalen Brunson …

The NBA Finals are set. Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs will face off against Jalen Brunson and the New York Knicks in a finals that will break historic NBA clichés. Either an inexperienced team will prove you don’t need experience to win a title, or that you can win a championship with a small guard that isn’t the …

The giant Larry O’Brien Trophy is back. The league released court designs for the NBA Finals matchup this summer on Sunday night, just days before the San Antonio Spurs host the New York Knicks in Game 1 of that series. A giant painted trophy sits behind each team’s logo, and the classic “Finals” script is painted on one corner of …

Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. The New York Knicks have certainly waited long enough. The Eastern Conference champions will end up with 10 full days off before they face the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals, compared to just three for the Western Conference champions. Advertisement Plenty …

Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs stand before the Knicks’ first NBA title since the 1973 season after San Antonio’s 111-103 Game 7 win Saturday at the Thunder dethroned reigning-champion Oklahoma City in the Western Conference Finals, setting the stage for a matchup that has New York laser-focused as prep begins for Wednesday’s opener. “They’re a special team,” Miles McBride said. …

This was a moment that nobody expected. At the start of the season, the San Antonio Spurs were seen as a borderline playoff team, possibly a play-in squad. Now, just seven months later, the Spurs are Western Conference champions. In the last game of a hard-fought series with the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder, the Spurs went into enemy territory …

How do title contending NBA teams build their rosters? This year’s NBA Finals is, as they say, a study in contrasts. The San Antonio Spurs are largely organic, with most of their key players selected in the NBA draft by the Spurs, or are the sort of players that any team can acquire to play for them at low cost. …

It’s 1999 all over again, as the San Antonio Spurs and New York Knicks will duke it out in the NBA Finals for the right to be crowned the kings of the NBA. (Man, we really need a new nickname for Sacramento, don’t we? I don’t mean for them to catch strays here, but … yikes.) Advertisement As the two …

Coming into the playoffs, Luke Kornet was considered one of, if not the top backup center in the NBA. He’d already won a championship backing up Kristaps Porzingis in Boston two years ago and seemed primed to do it again backing up Victor Wembanyama. He was great all year, helping the Spurs thrive when Wemby missed 12 games early in …

We don’t yet know how the Cleveland Cavaliers will choose to handle this summer. What we do know, however, is that they’ll have plenty of options. According to Sam Amick of The Athletic, the Oklahoma City Thunder won’t be interested in Giannis Antetokounmpo in a possible trade. They might, however, be open to trading for Evan Mobley. Advertisement “There has …

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As we recap the individual best performances from Golden State Warriors from this past season, there’s a lot of heartbreak to parse through. The week before February 5 had been genuinely ugly for the Golden State Warriors. Jimmy Butler had the horrific ACL injury. Then the emotional whirlwind of a trade deadline as the team shipped out Jonathan Kuminga and …

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Chet Holmgren attempted two shots in Game 7 of the Western Conference finals. He absorbed plenty of shots from critics afterward. And the Oklahoma City Thunder spent Day 1 of the offseason making clear that they support him. Advertisement If the ballyhooed matchup in the West finals was Holmgren vs. San Antonio’s Victor Wembanyama, then it …

Let’s bring it back full circle, baby. The last time the San Antonio Spurs were genuinely feared in the Western Conference, Kawhi Leonard was arguably the most dangerous two-way player on the planet and the Warriors were the only thing standing between San Antonio and another dynastic chapter. Then came the 2017 Western Conference Finals when Kawhi’s tender ankle buckled …

I’m not gonna lie, the past two weeks have been weird. Awkward. Icky, if you will. Because as the Western Conference Finals progressed, one thing became clear. I was rooting for the San Antonio Spurs to win. Even typing those words feels awkward. The Spurs are a team I’ve “sports hated” for most of my life. They have left scars …