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May 19 |
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PATRICK O'BRYANT was sitting in the Warriors locker room six weeks ago, having been recalled for the 823rd time this season, when I asked if maybe this time he'd get a chance to play.
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April 17 |
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OAKLAND — Given 36 hours to ponder his decision, Warriors coach Don Nelson had no regrets over benching his franchise player, Baron Davis, for the entire second half of the defeat that formally eliminated Golden State from postseason contention.
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April 16 |
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ALETTER-WRITER earlier this basketball season said I would be jumping on the Warriors bandwagon come playoff time and eat crow.
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April 15 |
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PHOENIX — For the first time in 175 games since Don Nelson returned the Warriors' bench, he'll be coaching a game that holds no intrinsic value.
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April 15 |
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PHOENIX — In this oddest of seasons for the Warriors, it's only right they should be eliminated from playoff contention with a performance that was at once so familiar and yet so unbelievably bizarre.
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April 14 |
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OAKLAND — Two months ago, Warriors forward Mickael Pietrus stated repeatedly that he wished to be traded, no longer desiring to be a member of a team that was giving him sporadic minutes and making him play out of position.
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April 13 |
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OAKLAND — The sellout crowd of 19,706 dutifully roared Saturday night when the final score from the rout out of Salt Lake City — Utah Jazz 124, Denver Nuggets 97 — was shown on the main scoreboard at Oracle Arena late in the second period of the Golden State Warriors' own contest.
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April 13 |
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OAKLAND — Golden State Warriors guard Kelenna Azubuike spent three seasons as a teammate of Houston Rockets forward Chuck Hayes at the University of Kentucky.
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April 13 |
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AS THE Warriors play out the string, praying for the minor miracle that would resuscitate their playoff hopes, I'm still stuck on Thursday night's season-smashing home loss to Denver and its two lasting images — a gassed starting lineup and a bench that deserved to be gassed.
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April 11 |
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OAKLAND — They broke out the "WE BELIEVE" signs at Oracle Arena on Thursday night, but it's getting monumentally difficult for all but the most ardent Warriors fans to maintain any belief of seeing Golden State in this year's postseason.
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April 11 |
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OAKLAND — We believe the Warriors, rode so hard this season, lacked endurance when they needed it and were beaten as much by that as by the Denver Nuggets.
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April 11 |
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OAKLAND — It's too late to save whichever team fails to survive the current eighth-place Western Conference cage match, be it the Warriors or the Nuggets.
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April 10 |
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OAKLAND — Warriors coach Don Nelson derides people who bandy about phrases like "biggest game of the season" too readily.
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April 09 |
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OAKLAND — They would be, still could be, haunted by road losses at Indiana and Charlotte and Sacramento, as well as potentially devastating home losses to Minnesota and Chicago and Atlanta.
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April 09 |
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OAKLAND — He won't be replacing Yogi Berra in the pantheon of circular logicians, but Warriors forward Mickael Pietrus summed up his team's situation before its game against Sacramento on Tuesday with a nearly perfect Yogism.
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April 09 |
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OAKLAND — He won't be replacing Yogi Berra in the pantheon of circular logicians, but Warriors forward Mickael Pietrus summed up his team's situation with a nearly perfect Yogism before its game against Sacramento on Tuesday night.
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April 09 |
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OAKLAND — Forward Mickael Pietrus was back in uniform for the Warriors on Tuesday, although you almost couldn't tell it from watching the first half.
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April 09 |
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OAKLAND — Two hours before tipoff of the most important game of the season, Warriors coach Don Nelson divulged the demands he had made of his team.
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April 08 |
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OAKLAND — Warriors swingman Stephen Jackson referred to teammate Monta Ellis as "the future franchise player of this team" on Sunday in the wake of Ellis' 35-point tour de force against the New Orleans Hornets.
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April 07 |
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| Does any team in the West have better than a one-in-three chance of knocking off the Spurs? Not according to SN's Stan McNeal. |
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April 07 |
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NEW ORLEANS — The folks from ABC highlighted a dichotomy in the Warriors' team stats during their broadcast Sunday: The fact that Golden State is second among 30 NBA teams in terms of hoisting 3-point shots, but only 20th in terms of making them.
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April 07 |
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SLAM DUNKS, stiff jabs, safety blitzes, sound bytes, nasty curveballs and chin music put to words: -Why the Warriors will make the playoffs: All five of their remaining games are winnable, including the only one on the road, one week from tonight at Phoenix.
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April 07 |
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NEW ORLEANS — The Warriors' 108-96 loss to the Hornets on Sunday wasn't just bad news from the perspective of making the playoffs.
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April 07 |
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SEATTLE — Kevin Durant scored a season-high 37 points, and fellow rookie Jeff Green had a season-high 35 to lead the Seattle SuperSonics to a 151-147 double-overtime victory over Denver on Sunday night, damaging the Nuggets' playoff hopes.
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April 06 |
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NEW ORLEANS — The Warriors have secured their first winning record on the road since 1991-92, their most overall victories since'93-94 and, if Baron Davis, Stephen Jackson and Monta Ellis can keep things up, they'll be the first NBA team with three scorers who each averaged 20 or more points
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April 06 |
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DENVER — Kevin Martin scored 36 points despite missing Sacramento's shootaround with the stomach flu, and the Kings dealt a blow to the Denver Nuggets' playoff plans Saturday night with a surprising 118-115 win at the Pepsi Center.
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April 05 |
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Well, if the Golden State Warriors don't make the playoffs, they'll make a little nugget of history instead.
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April 05 |
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — When the Warriors knocked off the Western Conference's best team at its arena back in January, Matt Barnes scored 17 points and had six rebounds, two assists and two blocked shots in 44 minutes.
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April 05 |
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LOS ANGELES — Lamar Odom scored a season-high 31 points, Kobe Bryant added 25 points and 10 rebounds, and the Los Angeles Lakers clinched a playoff berth Friday night with a 112-108 victory over the Dallas Mavericks.
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April 04 |
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DALLAS — After the Dallas Mavericks hung 44 fastbreak points on the Warriors on Wednesday, coach Don Nelson pointed out that his team was hardly blameless in the calamity.
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April 03 |
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DALLAS — Like Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire," the Warriors are depending on the kindness of strangers.
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April 03 |
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DALLAS — As the Warriors fight to the last for their playoff lives, Stephen Jackson periodically casts his mind back to October and early November, when his teammates went 1-6 while he served an NBA suspension.
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April 01 |
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SAN ANTONIO — After knocking down a couple of clutch jumpers in the closing minutes of the Golden State Warriors' 114-104 win over Dallas on Sunday, second-year guard Kelenna Azubuike was saddled with some new nickname possibilities.
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March 31 |
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OAKLAND — Oracle Arena might not have matched the level of sustained electricity as it contained back in April, but the Warriors were much more interested Sunday in recreating the outcome of last season's playoff series against the Dallas Mavericks, not just replicating the atmosphere.
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March 30 |
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DENVER — For the first time since Feb. 22, the Golden State Warriors fell into ninth place in the Western Conference, one spot out of the playoff picture.
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March 29 |
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OAKLAND — In a season where so much has gone so dreadfully wrong for Warriors forward Matt Barnes, there comes a final chance to make things go right.
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March 28 |
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Roy Williams has never stopped pushing his North Carolina team to play better defense, not even as it piled up lopsided wins and crowd-pleasing offensive displays that few teams can match.
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March 28 |
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OAKLAND — The Warriors got some form of vindication from the league offices regarding referee Bob Delaney's call in the final seconds of Monday's loss to the Lakers.
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March 27 |
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OAKLAND — The worst thing about saying goodbye to Chris Webber on Wednesday was that the Warriors never really got to say a proper hello.
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March 25 |
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OAKLAND — In the Warriors' locker room early Monday evening, Kelenna Azubuike respectfully declined to be labeled the next "Kobe stopper.
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March 24 |
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LOS ANGELES — After using the Los Angeles Lakers as highlight-reel stooges while rolling up their highest-scoring half of the season, the Warriors remembered exactly why the Staples Center has been their personal tomb for more than five years.
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March 24 |
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LOS ANGELES — Dirk Nowitzki may be down for an undetermined amount of time, but the Warriors decline to deem his Dallas Mavericks out of the Western Conference playoff race.
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March 22 |
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OAKLAND — Stephen Jackson has been the Warriors' go-to guy this season when it comes to community service events.
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March 20 |
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LOS ANGELES — Cheering is normally reserved for during an NBA game, rather than occurring 45 minutes before the opening tip.
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March 16 |
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OAKLAND — Usually when one of the worst teams in the league come to town, it's a chance to take an easy win, rest the starters, play the youngsters.
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