Golden State Warriors

There may be a lot going on in the world of sports, but KNBR’s Gary Radnich says that if he could only watch one team all season, it would be the Golden State Warriors.

After adding Kevin Durant to their already juggernaut outfit, there’s little doubt that the Golden State Warriors enter 2016-17 season as the villains of the NBA. That title doesn’t exactly sit with with Warriors executive Bob Myers, who told Gary and Larry on Friday that much of the resentment directed toward Golden state comes from a false perception that the team is a dynasty.

Earlier this week an ESPN the Magazine story detailed the tension that existed between Draymond Green and some of his teammates and coaches throughout last season, but that wasn’t what Klay Thompson took issue with when asked about the piece by reporters during Friday’s practice.

With the addition of Kevin Durant into the fold, the Warriors are supposed to experience some growing pains at the start of the upcoming season. Based on their preseason performances, however, Durant and the Warriors seem to be acclimating seamlessly.

Kevin Durant may be a four-time scoring champion, but new Warriors assistant coach Mike Brown thinks the 6′ 9″ small forward has the potential to have a significant impact on both ends of the floor this season. Brown joined the Murph and Mac show on Friday morning and sung the praises of Durant’s rarely talked about defensive skills.

The last a team was favored to the point where gamblers would stand to win less than you bet was the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls, who were coming off a then record 72-win regular season and an NBA title

With all the negativity swirling around, it’s nice to be able to pass a positive story along every once in a while. Veteran NBA reporter Craig Sager received some good news Wednesday, when he was released after spending 85 consecutive days in the hospital, battling leukemia that returned in March of 2016. His daughter made […]

Do you actually learn anything from an NBA preseason? Win-loss records don’t matter at all, but you can get an idea of how a team is meshing and learning to play together. It’s also a perfect time for Warriors’ broadcaster Bob Fitzgerald to compare this year’s Warriors to the squads that went 83-20 and 88-18 the past two seasons.

Jerry West sounded off on Adrian Wojnarowski’s podcast Wednesday, lambasting those criticizing Kevin Durant for joining the Warriors this offseason, and admitted that if he had had the chance to improve his situation when he played, he would have.

In a revealing piece, ESPN.com’s Ethan Strauss details some of the issues that caused tension between Draymond Green and the Golden State Warriors last season, and how his emotional outbursts negatively affected both teammates and coaches.