About Those Steph Curry Doubters
Steph Curry has a huge challenge. Shutting up his doubters barely registers on the long list of must-dos.
Steph Curry has a huge challenge. Shutting up his doubters barely registers on the long list of must-dos.
It had been 13 months since James Wiseman played in a basketball game. Yet, Wiseman was the best thing about the Warriors opening night.
The Warriors dynasty was buried but the dirt wasn’t on the grave. Until Steph Curry broke his hand.
The Warriors have dominated the Lakers the past few years but when Kevin Durant left for Brooklyn and Anthony Davis was traded to L.A., the California rivalry was forever changed.
$151 million Miami Heat. Last Conference Final: 2014. Largest Salary: Chris Bosh ($26,837,720). Freedom: 2020-21, $57 million. The Heat are burdened by the max contract Pat Riley gave to Chris Bosh once LeBron James left him high and dry. Bosh was then injured and the Heat haven’t been able to recover. They have entered into…
If Danny Ainge had signed DeMarcus Cousins to the mid-level exception which is what a torn Achilles big man is worth these days, Ainge would have been called a genius and way ahead of the curve. Ainge would have been complimented, applauded, envied and more adored as a team builder than he already is, if…
Similarly suffocating as the early morning fog along the Bay Bridge many a day, Steph Curry was a blinding fugue in Game 4 of the NBA Finals in Cleveland. Effective, chilling and without peer on this Friday night, Curry had the last word after a miserable shooting performance in Game 3. Anyone thinking this didn’t…
The relentless excellence of the Golden State Warriors and the unsettling performance of the Cleveland Cavaliers is not the story here. What will be remembered a decade from now, what will be the first line of the first sentence of the chapter titled LeBron James loses to Steph Curry, will have to do with aesthetics:…
This time two years ago it was convenient to frame the Warriors historic season within the contextual analysis of a revolution. A revolution by definition changes structures and institutions through mass organization of military power. On a much smaller scale, the Warriors were demoralizing their opponents and doing unthinkable things, led by Steph Curry’s wizadry.…
Lacking sexiness, the Warriors defense is under the radar, rarely discussed, yet they have the best defensive rating in the playoffs at 101.9. No other team has a defensive rating below 103. Why is no one paying attention to what the Dubs are doing on the other end of the court? For starters, the Warriors…