Yearly Archives: 2024

Monk or Ellis? Kings excited for starting shooting guard competition

Monk or Ellis? Kings excited for starting shooting guard competition originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area SACRAMENTO – The biggest question looming over the Kings as they enter training camp Tuesday is who will be the starting two guard for the 2024-25 NBA season. If Kings coach Mike Brown and the rest of the team made one thing clear, …

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Steph explains how A’s leaving Oakland ‘sucks’ for community

Steph explains how A’s leaving Oakland ‘sucks’ for community originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Steph Curry cares for Oakland. The Warriors superstar, entering season No. 16 with the franchise, spent a decade playing at Oracle Arena just feet away from the Coliseum and long has been involved with the community. The Athletics being the latest professional team to …

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Warriors’ offseason additions remind Steph, Draymond of 2021 moves

Warriors’ offseason additions remind Steph, Draymond of 2021 moves originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area SAN FRANCISCO – Even though the Warriors failed to land either of their top offseason targets, first Paul George and then Lauri Markkanen, neither Stephen Curry nor Draymond Green seem dissatisfied with the team’s backup plan. The moves made by Golden State’s front office …

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Steph slyly reveals favorite French word he learned at Olympics

Steph slyly reveals favorite French word he learned at Olympics originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Warriors guard Steph Curry gave Team USA his everything at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics and helped the Americans return home with a gold medal. But that wasn’t all Curry took home from France. In talking to reporters Monday during Warriors Media Day, …

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Kerr tweaking Warriors’ offense receives Steph’s stamp of approval

Kerr tweaking Warriors’ offense receives Steph’s stamp of approval originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area SAN FRANCISCO – The offense Steve Kerr installed 10 years ago, with crisps passes and player movement creating basketball symphony, is being updated. The Warriors want a different look, one they believe befits the current roster. Despite the team’s tremendous success under Kerr, this …

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NBA world reacts to the death of Dikembe Mutombo

Dikembe Mutombo EL SEGUNDO — As much as everyone feels the pain of the loss of Dikembe Mutombo — who died Monday at the age of 58 — it was hard to talk about him and the joy he brought everywhere he went without a smile coming across people’s faces. That was the case with LeBron James at Lakers media …

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Kuminga more focused on Year 4 growth than Warriors extension

Kuminga more focused on Year 4 growth than Warriors extension originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area SAN FRANCISCO — Jonathan Kuminga hopes he’ll sign a contract extension with the Warriors, but the fourth-year forward’s focus is elsewhere as the 2024-25 NBA season approaches. The 2021 NBA Draft lottery pick is entering the final year of his rookie deal, and …

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Kawhi Leonard plans on playing in Clippers’ season opener

Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard (Ryan Sun / Associated Press) The goal, Kawhi Leonard said Monday at the Clippers’ media day at Intuit Dome, is to play in the team’s regular-season opener against the Phoenix Suns on Oct. 23 in Inglewood. Leonard continues to deal with inflammation in his surgically repaired right knee, leading some uncertainty about when he’ll be healthy …

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NBA media day live updates: LeBron and Bronny James headline Lakers media day

In collaboration with the Los Angeles Clippers, Team USA removed two-time NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard from its roster for the Paris Olympics, citing chronic soreness in his surgically repaired right knee. “We’re taking it day by day,” Leonard told reporters when asked on media day how soon he might be able to play. “Everything’s been going great for the …

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