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Clippers’ Griffin to miss the rest of the postseason
Chris Paul said after the latest game that losing Griffin would keep the team from running offense through the post as much, where other players cut and move off of the 6-foot-10, 250-pounder.
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Arnovitz: Warriors should put Durant in bubble wrap until Round 2
ESPN’s Kevin Arnovitz joined The Audible on Friday, and argued that the Warriors should hold Kevin Durant out until the second round of the NBA Playoffs.
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Analysis: Is Solomon Thomas a 49ers smokescreen?
The power players are purposely steering draft experts and other teams in a direction they don’t actually intend to go. It’s smart, perceptive behavior you expect from playoff contending organizations. Behavior like this is why so many people raved about the hirings.
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McGee recalls his mom’s coaching: ‘She had me up at 6 a.m. running around in the snow’
“My mother definitely was still hard working me, especially on the basketball,” said McGee. “I think it was sixth grade, and I had a bad game. She had me up at 6:00 a.m. running around, running around in the snow in boots, like working out.”
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Warriors make Charles Barkley look foolish again with superb defense
Charles, the Warriors can play poorly from time-to-time on defense. They are not bad defensively. But go ahead, please keep spewing this nonsense. Providing correct, sound analysis obviously isn’t the goal of your broadcast.
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McCaw’s postgame interview interrupted by Draymond’s ear pinching
Patrick McCaw made his first career NBA playoff start tonight against Portland, scoring nine points in 35 minutes of action. As McCaw was being interviewed postgame, Draymond Green snuck over and pinched McCaw’s ear, sneaking around to the other side of McCaw and doing it again just seconds later.
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JaVale McGee plays out of his mind, Warriors clobber Blazers in Game 2
The most encouraging sign: This was not a game where either Steph Curry or Klay Thompson dominated and the victory still came in blowout fashion. This win was mostly organic with strong defense and slick transition offense
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Kevin Durant ruled out for Game 2
In the grand scheme of things, Kerr should be willing to jeopardize a game early in the playoffs to ensure Durant’s health. Call it overly cautious if you want. But if Durant aggravated the calf Wednesday — or worse, injured something else by overcompensating — and was out for an extended period of time, problems…
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Draymond tops list of players who lag behind on defense due to complaints with refs
Chris Herring of FiveThirtyEight came out with an interesting piece on Wednesday, centered around his pet peeve of NBA players not getting back on defense because they are too busy complaining with the refs about calls on the other end.
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Kevin Durant’s status closer to doubtful for Game 2 [report]
Listed by the team as questionable with a left calf strain ahead of Game 2 of the Warriors’ first round matchup against the Blazers, Kevin Durant’s status is reportedly closer to doubtful, according to Sam Amick of USA Today.
