Golden State Warriors

[jasonrestrella13]

Well the good thing is, there is a chance to do 73-9 again and win all the way

 

It's true, Just saw the post game interviews of Green and Curry. They learned from their mistakes and they are definitely going to be improve (team and individually) once the season starts. As Draymond mentioned in the interview, it wasn't a totally bad season, they broke records its just they didn't win the championship. They promised to be back.

[Guiness]

 

The Golden State Warriors have just suffered a heart breaker in the NBA Finals. They lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 7 to decide who would take home the championship. With the finals officially over, the Warriors are now putting their full attention to their upcoming off season. Management has said they want to make some big moves this summer. According to NBC Sports, one of the moves they are interested in making is convincing Dirk Nowitzki to join the Warriors next season.

The Golden State Warriors will have plenty of cap space to sign a big name star. At the end of the regular season, many people are expecting the Warriors to go after Kevin Durant during free agency. Signing Durant this summer might be out of the question, since the former Texas Longhorns star is expected to command the maximum contract. A cheaper option for the Warriors could be Dirk Nowitzki. The All-Star is opting out of his current contract with the Dallas Mavericks.

 

 

Many people are expecting Dirk Nowitzki to re-sign with the Dallas Mavericks this summer; the All-Star reportedly doesn’t have any interest in leaving the Mavericks as of right now. If Mark Cuban can’t improve the Mavericks roster, however, Nowitzki could go chase an NBA Championship next season. He might opt to sign with another team that can help him compete for another ring. He just turned 38-years-old this month. Nowitzki’s NBA career is coming close to an end.

Dirk Nowitzki and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban are extremely close to one another. Cuban is the type of person who would not hold it against Nowitzki if he decided to join another team to chase an NBA Championship. Nowitzki has been very loyal to Cuban and the Mavericks. He took several pay cuts to help the team sign other star players. The past two summers, the Mavericks were able to sign Chandler Parsons and Wesley Matthews.

 

 

Dirk Nowitzki proved that he still has enough left in the tank to be a very efficient player in the NBA. This season, he averaged 18.3 points and 6.5 rebounds per game in 31.5 minutes. Nowitzki shot 44.8 percent from the field and 36.8 percent from beyond the arc. If he were to sign with the Golden State Warriors, the All-Star would be coming off the bench.

If the Golden State Warriors are able to convince Dirk Nowitzki to sign with them, they would bolster one of the best benches in the entire NBA. The Warriors would have Nowitzki, Andre Iguodala, and Shaun Livingston. Iguodala has proven that he is still playing at a high level on both sides of the ball. He is a shut down defender and a facilitator on offense. Livingston is a smart player who can take advantage of the opposing team’s point guard. He is a very player with a lot of depth, who can play multiple positions. Nowitzki would be the scorer off the bench. He has one of the best, if not the best, fadeways in the NBA.

 

 

Draymond Green would help take the load off of Dirk Nowitzki on the defensive end of the court. Nowitzki wouldn’t be required to put in a lot of effort on defense. The Golden State Warriors have one of the best defenses in the NBA. The addition of Nowitzki would make the Warriors even more dangerous on offense next season.

Dirk Nowitzki is expected to be a free agent this upcoming summer. Everyone is expecting Nowitzki to re-sign with the Dallas Mavericks in free agency. That could change, though, if Mark Cuban can’t improve the roster. The Golden State Warriors are expected to make a big push to sign Nowitzki this summer. They would give him a chance to compete for another NBA Championship right away.

 

[*kalel*]

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/report-warriors-want-to-sign-dirk-nowitzki-in-free-agency/?linkId=25745925

 

Well it is a good prospect... dirk in golden state? Why not?

 

It will also be fun to watch kd in golden state... wag lang mangyari yung la lakers at houston rockets stigma....

[*kalel*]

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/stephen-curry-says-no-surgery-no-excuses-after-losing-nba-finals/

 

You got to like this person... hindi maninisi ng coach at hindi ginagamit ang injury sa kanya o sa teammates nya pag natatalo

[JRose]

Better luck next year. Curry needs to bulk if he hopes to play any decent D

[Guiness]

LeBron Hilariously Trolled the Warriors With His Outfit

By

Jake Woolf

June 20, 2016

 

Warrriorrrsssssssss, come out to plaaaaaaaay.

LeBron James is currently on a high few athletes have probably ever been on. He promised to win a title in Cleveland, and not only did he do it—he did it in the most heroic way possible. (Steph Curry is going to have nightmares about LeBron sonning him via block for months.) As a result, today the entire internet is basically just this:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPooDiY4tt8

 

And though he's been humble and grateful for his entire career, when boarding the plane in Cleveland today, 'Bron was anything but. Sporting an Ultimate Warrior T-shirt (yup, he went there) and Kermit the Frog meme hat (double went there), LeBron James became the king of petty.

 

 

Not that we're mad at it. Like we said, the guy just gave his city a championship for the first time since the mid '60s! That's 20 years before LeBron himself was born! So we say let the guy have fun. If the Warriors didn't want this slam dunk troll to take place, maybe they should have closed out the Cavs in game five, or game six, or game seven. But that's none of our business, though.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLKTyUd9on8

 

[*kalel*]

Ultimate iyakin.... hindi warrior hehehe

 

Let us see next season kung makakabalik sila sa championship... if the warriors will be intact, most probably it will lead to a 3rd straight finals appearance

[photographer]

Ultimate iyakin.... hindi warrior hehehe

 

Let us see next season kung makakabalik sila sa championship... if the warriors will be intact, most probably it will lead to a 3rd straight finals appearance

 

Sayang din yung pagkawala ni Bogut. His backup centers are playing like inexperienced "babies". Not an excuse though. Pero sayang pa rin.

[*badass*]

Like i've said before, warriors need a center who is a monster off the boards and can protect the rim against players like irving, lillard and even lebron. sayang si bogut...just as when gsw needed him, nagkaroon pa ng injury. Di kayabni draymond na nag-iisa. i hope they can get whiteside or biyombo.

Edited June 24, 2016 by *badass*

[Guiness]

Sources: Warriors, Spurs, Thunder get first Kevin Durant meetings

 

The Golden State Warriors, San Antonio Spurs and incumbent Oklahoma City Thunder are the first three known teams to secure face-to-face meetings with free agent-to-be Kevin Durant, starting next weekend, according to league sources.

 

Sources told ESPN that the list of teams that get to pitch Durant directly will grow before NBA free agency officially commences July 1 at 12:01 a.m. ET, but the list of confirmed suitors for now features the Thunder and their two main rivals in the Western Conference.

The Warriors and Spurs, sources say, are both already planning to load a plane full of key organizational figures -- including Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson for Golden State, and Gregg Popovich and Tim Duncan for San Antonio -- to fly to an undisclosed location once free-agency season starts to try to lure Durant away from the only franchise he has ever played for.

 

Expected to sit alongside Durant at the forthcoming meetings, sources say, is his agent Rich Kleiman and selected family members and friends.

 

After Oklahoma City lost to Golden State in the Western Conference finals, ESPN reported that the most likely scenario for Durant this summer was staying with the Thunder on a two-year deal that includes a player option after Year 1 that would allow him to return to free agency in July 2017 alongside teammate Russell Westbrook.

 

But the Warriors, sources say, increasingly believe their chances of convincing Durant to leave the Thunder after a successful 10-season run were enhanced significantly by the fact that Golden State lost the NBA Finals to Cleveland in seven games despite taking a 3-1 series lead.

 

The Warriors would have to relinquish a number of looming free agents, including Harrison Barnes and Festus Ezeli, and at least one more significant contract -- such as Andrew Bogut or Andre Iguodala -- to create sufficient salary-cap space to sign Durant. But as ESPN reported earlier this week, Golden State is "all-in" on a Durant pursuit.

 

"All I can say is I will be very aggressive," Warriors owner Joe Lacob vowed on his way out of Oracle Arena after Game 7.

 

Other teams hopeful of getting their own opportunity to make a recruiting pitch to 2016's most coveted free agent but whose status is not yet known include the Miami Heat, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Clippers, New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers.

 

The Houston Rockets have long planned to chase Durant in free agency, but when Durant and Rockets star James Harden were spotted spending time together earlier this month, sources said the Rockets are not expected to get serious consideration as a destination from Durant.

 

Sources say Durant's hometown Washington Wizards are likewise pessimistic about their chances of emerging as a real factor in the Durant sweepstakes, despite the recent hiring of former Thunder coach Scott Brooks.

[Guiness]

Draymond Green: Finals loss will 'never wear off' but ready for Rio

NEW YORK -- It has been just over seven days since Game 7, and Draymond Green is still reeling from the NBA Finals loss to Cleveland.

"That will never wear off," Green said, even as he was proud to be introduced with the rest of the 2016 USA Men's Basketball Olympic squad at a youth clinic in Harlem. "We had an opportunity to win a championship. That never goes away. [but] you got to move on."

 

One person who might help Green and the Golden State Warriors move on is Kevin Durant. The league's most sought-after free agent will meet with six teams, including the Warriors.

 

The idea of the 73-win Warriors potentially adding a superstar scoring machine such as Durant has the league buzzing ahead of free agency, which opens on July 1.

 

"I don't know," Green said when asked how much better the Warriors can be with his new Olympic teammate. "There's different dynamics to everything. At the end of the day, there is nothing set in stone. I don't worry about things I can't control.

 

"This is a business. I've always been taught that you are either getting better or you are getting worse. Teams are always trying to look ahead at what's next."

 

While Carmelo Anthony has already told ESPN.com's Marc Stein that he's recruiting Durant to the Knicks, Green said he will try to woo Durant if asked by the Warriors.

 

Golden State's Green, Klay Thompson and Harrison Barnes are all on Team USA along with Durant.

 

Cleveland's Kyrie Irving is also on the Olympic roster. Green said "it's not weird at all" playing alongside Irving despite losing to the Cavs' point guard in the seven-game Finals.

 

"Of course it is (still fresh)," Green said of the championship defeat. "But that don't mean I am coming into this like, 'Oh man, I am mad at Kyrie.' Number one, they beat us, so you respect that. Number two, we are here for this. It is not about anybody's personal feelings. It is about representing the country."

Green will do that alongside Durant. Could the two be teammates beyond this summer? That remains to be seen.

 

"I am not talking about that right now," Durant said of the teams he plans to meet with. "It's USA Basketball, I don't want to take my focus off that or be a distraction. When I know, you guys will know what I do.

 

"The best thing about all of us, none of the guys here have put any type of pressure. It has been cool."

[Maki8]

cno sa b tlga pinaka important player ng warriors?

[*kalel*]

i think its curry.. his shooting opens a lot of things for the warriors.. and then klay... green is a close third

[Guiness]

The Warriors were never revolutionizing basketball

By Bethlehem Shoals on Jun 29, 2016, 11:33a

 

Golden State’s legacy is profound even after losing the 2016 Finals, but talk of them changing the entire fabric of the game was always overstated

 

A month ago, it all seemed so clear. Big men were expendable. The next generation of NBA players would be weaned on half-court threes and cross-court passes. Fixed positions were a thing of the past. Defensive schemes would all but eliminate one-on-one matchups. And iso-driven hero ball would no longer torment the very soul of the sport.

 

After the Warriors pissed away a 3-1 lead in the Finals, though, the future of basketball doesn’t seem nearly as certain. It wasn’t just Golden State’s assault on the record books that made its 2015-16 so exhilarating. There was the sense -- at times an outright declaration by some -- that we were watching the game evolve before our very eyes. The Warriors were so devastatingly successful that they would serve as a template for the rest of the league going forward.

 

In and of itself, the notion of one single team (or player) dictating the direction of the sport is remarkable. While basketball is a game of eras and epochs, you’d be hard-pressed to identify the kind of key turning point that the Warriors were supposed to represent. There have certainly been players who single-handedly altered the way the sport was played: Michael Jordan, Julius Erving, Kevin Garnett and George Mikan immediately spring to mind. But many of the NBA’s greatest players have been so singular that it’s hard to quantify their influence, or chart how their teams left a lasting imprint on the game.

 

That’s part of why the idea of teams copying the Warriors -- and institutions scrambling to keep up with the revolution in progress -- was always, to some degree, laughable. The Warriors may have had a readily apparent system, but it was one driven by truly remarkable individuals. In the grand scheme of the league, Stephen Curry has taken a backseat to GOAT-candidate LeBron James, but he’s still a deadly, transformative weapon who might be the greatest shooter who ever lived. The postseason has opened up a lot of questions about Draymond Green’s attitude and maturity level; that doesn’t do anything to diminish his multifarious talent. And when Klay Thompson gets going, he’s nearly Curry’s equal as a long-range threat.

 

That’s a long way of saying that to play like the Warriors, a team would somehow need to approximate all these pieces, which seems all but impossible. The SSOL Phoenix Suns, who in many ways predicted this Golden State team, would never have existed without Steve Nash’s telepathic playmaking and Amar’e Stoudemire’s pyrotechnic game around the basket. No less key was Shawn Marion, who covered everyone’s ass on defense, knocked down visually abhorrent corner threes and proved invaluable as a rebounder and finisher.

 

Small ball as practiced by the Suns or any number of Don Nelson’s teams down through the years, has always been more a philosophy than a fully-formed idea. If anything, this year’s Warriors -- who were seen as a triumph of team-oriented basketball -- were simply the latest manifestation of an approach predicated on irreplicable players and unpredictable synergy.

 

The Warriors weren’t a clear-cut formula; no squad is going to contend for a championship by simply jacking up 30-footers and making the extra pass when necessary. They were what happened when an outrageously good roster fell into the hands of a coach smart enough to let individuals’ games shape the overall approach.

 

This wasn’t a triumph of ego-less, team-first basketball. If that’s your bag, take a look at the mega-accomplished San Antonio Spurs and how abruptly their postseason ended. Rather, the Warriors’ success was predicated on the importance of letting players be themselves, gelling together naturally, and then based on these observations, tailor a system to their strengths. When the team stumbled in the playoffs, it wasn’t some sort of reflection on the Warriors’ system. With a diminished version of Curry and Green making a mockery of everything he’d accomplished during the regular season, there was no Warriors system.

The Warriors have served up a vision for the sport, albeit one more nebulous than previously thought. It’s not about finding or manufacturing a Curry clone, but for being able to pull talent like Curry, Thompson and Green (all drafted, all steals) and then intuitively piece them together. Instead of prescribing a course of action, the Warriors should put more pressure than ever on coaches and front offices to be astute and creative in the way they do their jobs. Imposing a top-down system on a roster demonstrates a lack of imagination and will invariably fail to get the most out of players, no matter how good they are. It’s worth noting that when the Thunder outplayed the Warriors, it had as much to do with Billy Donovan’s retooling of their strategy as it did the one-two punch of Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook.

 

The Warriors didn’t teach the league anything useful about what to do or how to do it, or even who should do it. Rather, they were an example of how an organization, from top-to-bottom, can view the construction of a team. Their failure to win a title in no way invalidates what that team stands for, provided we correctly identify that for what it is they stood for.

 

Regardless of whether their exact tactics or overall strategy succeeded against Cleveland, it’s hard to say that a 73-9 team is an exercise in futility. If they had won that impossibly close Game 7, the Warriors would now be taken literally like never before. And if that were happening, the future of basketball would be thoroughly misguided.

Edited June 30, 2016 by hahnz

[MustangEco]

isiah thomas jr is way better than steph curry.......thomas shooting percentage is far high than curry