Golden State Warriors

Jimmy Butler III scored a game-high 24 points, Brandin Podziemski returned from an injury to hit two key late 3-pointers and the Golden State Warriors, playing without Stephen Curry, held off the Milw

Boy, writing a Jock Blog about the Warriors seems like entering a minefield. These past few days have been rather dramatic in the land of a team that used to be known as “playing with joy” — remember those ancient days? Back before TikTok? The Warriors are at that place known as the crossroads, as […]

Final Jock Blog of 2024 and I’ve got bad news for you, Bay Area: No championships this year, kids. (With apologies to Stanford women’s sailing, of course. The canvas can do miracles. Just you wait and see.) The 49ers huffed and puffed and couldn’t blow the Super Bowl house down in February in Las Vegas. […]

As those legendary poets The Bee Gees might ask, if they were hanging around Thrive City: How deep are the Dubs? Welcome to the post-Klay Thompson Warriors, and with a robust one out of 82 precincts reporting, the early returns are . . . encouraging? I couldn’t couch that previous sentence with more asterisks. I […]

While it’s not the contract news Bay Area sports fans hoped to hear this morning, it’s still very good news. Warriors superstar guard Stephen Curry inked a mind boggling $62.5 million extension to stay with the Dubs for another season beyond the means of his current contract. In just under two months, Curry will embark […]

It all comes down to this: Can this identity-challenged Warriors team get it all together and make a serious run at an NBA championship?