Zaza Pachulia’s controversial close out of Kahwi Leonard in last year’s Western Conference Finals has led the NBA to institute new policies for the upcoming season, and stricter penalties for reckless closeouts on jump shooters.
Despite comments throughout the season that would indicate otherwise, there is still an outside chance the Warriors could make the customary visit to the White House traditionally extended to the team that wins the NBA Finals, Ramona Shelburne of ESPN is reporting.
On Monday, Durant deleted a series of tweets criticizing the Thunder organization, his former teammates and former head coach Billy Donovan. Curiously, the tweets were written in the third-person, leading many to believe that Durant meant to send them from a separate, anonymous account he uses to defend himself.
After an inaugural season with the Warriors that could’ve hardly gone any better, Kevin Durant’s offseason has been rife with controversy. While it seems like winning NBA Finals MVP would be the ultimate retort to his haters, Durant has spent much of the summer clapping back at critics, creating a shoe featuring criticisms on the soles and trashing his former organization on what it seems like he thought was a secret Twitter account.
The NBA Champion Golden State Warriors will hold their 2017 Training Camp, fueled by Gatorade, at the Rakuten Performance Center—the team’s newly named Practice Facility in Downtown Oakland—beginning Saturday, September 23, it was announced today.
It’s been well documented that Iguodala had meetings with the Los Angeles Lakers, San Antonio Spurs, Sacramento Kings, and Houston Rockets over the summer as he explored free-agency, but it remained unclear if he ever seriously considered signing with one of those teams, or if he was simply trying to make the Warriors nervous in order to get a more lucrative offer.
Kevin Durant created quite a firestorm on Monday, when he sent out two tweets criticizing the Thunder organization, his former coach Billy Donovan and his former teammates for not being good enough.
A rather significant report by ESPN’s Zach Lowe and Brian Windhorst came out on Tuesday, revealing that 14 of the NBA’s 30 franchises lost money before collective revenue payouts last season, and that nine teams were in the red even after those. One of the team’s not included on that list? The Golden State Warriors.
Since winning his first NBA title in June, Kevin Durant has been extremely active on social media, consistently responding to both haters and supporters alike.