Golden State Warriors

Hearing MVP chants at Oracle arena is nothing new. The Warriors have the current back-to-back MVP in Steph Curry, as well as another player who has won the award in Kevin Durant. Hearing the chant for an opposing player on the other hand, that’s new.

Wednesday night saw the Golden State Warriors lose a tooth-and-nail struggle with the Boston Celtics, a team that has consistently played the Warriors close in recent history. The Warriors had an absolutely atrocious night from deep, shooting well below their season average of .383. That wasn’t a problem for one Warriors fan.

LaVar Ball, the father of UCLA star freshman Lonzo Ball, made headlines after his comments two weeks ago that his son is already a better player than 2-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry.

Matt Barnes was recently signed by the Warriors to replace the injured Kevin Durant. However, Barnes said after shootaround Wednesday that he and Durant had talked about teaming up in Golden State last summer after Durant signed his contract.

It’s been one week to the day since Marcin Gortat threw Zaza Pachulia into Kevin Durant’s knee — The Zaza Chuck Heard ‘Round the World — and I think we’re all just now coming to our senses, as if it took this long to comprehend, time serving as the smelling salt to jerk us awake. […]

Draymond Green has been making headlines this past week for his words off the court, as he has been critical of Atlanta’s gameplan for him and the Knicks not having any sound or video on during the first half of Sunday’s game in New York.

Bouncing back from their first regular-season losing streak in nearly two years, the Warriors won for the second day in a row without Kevin Durant, who is out indefinitely with a left knee injury.

Just two minutes into his debut with the Cleveland Cavaliers, former Warriors center Andrew Bogut had to be helped off the court after sustaining what appeared to be an injury to his left shin.

Time for your Old Saying Of The Week: “You get more bees with honey than with vinegar.” This is true if you have an apiary, or you run a basketball team.

Stephen Curry shook out of his two-game slump and the Warriors broke their longest losing streak, two, in more than two seasons, outlasting a scrappy Knicks team 112-105 at Madison Square Garden Sunday.