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Warriors: Is it Better to Have Won and Lost Than Never to Have Won at All?

Love, politics, and sports -- in that order -- are the only places you can feel like this. It's where you actually have to start saying to yourself there are far worse things in this world than what just happened. Which makes you feel even worse about how much this hurts. Guilt over this first-worl ... More >>

Warriors: What the Nuggets Fans Are Saying Today

We've been blessed here in the Bay. The Sports Gods have granted us a cornucopia of sports ecstasy. There've been dreamlike successes--from the Giants' championship to the 49ers Super Bowl run. But more than that, there've been epic performances: Matt Cain's perfect game; Pablo Sandoval's three home ... More >>

After All That, Warriors Still Enter Game Five As Significant Betting Underdogs

This evening, the Warriors will have their chance to send the Denver Nuggets to an early summer vacation. Such a possibility certainly seemed unlikely just a week or so ago, when the Warriors lost game 1 of the series and also All-Star forward David Lee to a season-ending hip flexor tear. Even mor ... More >>

Here Is Your Golden State Warriors 2013 Playoffs Drinking Game

Steph Curry's ballin'. Mark Jackson's preaching. Klay Thompson's shooting. Harrison Barnes is dunking. Andrew Bogut's blocking. Kent Bazemore's dancing. And Andris Biedrins is looking tan as ever. There's much reason for excitement in G-State. Roaracle will be thunderous when the Warriors take the ... More >>

"Warriors on the Waterfront" Rally Catches So-Called Allies Off-Guard

The battle for -- and against -- the Golden State Warriors' proposed waterfront arena is heating up. So it wasn't a surprise to see a group calling itself "Warriors on the Waterfront" throwing a noontime rally on the City Hall steps today. Unless you're a member of the group's "steering committ ... More >>

Here's Your 49ers Super Bowl XLVII Drinking Game

What a time to be in San Francisco. On Sunday, the world's eyes will be on The City's team. The Super Bowl is America's favorite unofficial holiday, and San Francisco will be right in the middle of national party. A day of greasy foods, shouting, and general indulgence; a day for revelry and drink ( ... More >>

Bay Area DJs Battle It Out at the Red Bull Thre3style Contest, 1/24/13

The Red Bull Thre3style Contest, featuring DJs D-Sharp, Dstrukt, J. Espinosa, Mei-Lwun, and Richie Panic Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013 The Independent Better Than: Being stuck in a crowded arena of people sucking on pacifiers wondering whether you are baby-sitting or just better off never going out again ... More >>

Top 12 Moments of The Year of the Bay Area Sports Renaissance

With the New Year just hours away, we can finally say it without fear of a buzzer-beating jinx: 2012 marks The Year of the Bay Area Sports Renaissance. These things tend to come in cycles. The Bay's Age of Terrible Sports was a long, cold winter. Game Six in '02 was the first snow, and the blizzar ... More >>

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Warriors Beat the Heat and Show the World Their New Swag

Last night's win turned heads. It's not just that the Warriors beat the defending champion Miami Heat; not just that they led after every quarter. The Wizards, after all, have also beat the Heat. The win turned heads because it showed the world how the Warriors have won 12 of their last 15 games, in ... More >>

Andrew Bogut Injury Cover-Up Was a Stupid-Ass Thing To Do

During time-outs, the Warriors, like presumably all professional sports team, hold "vote our guys to the all-star game!" gimmicks. During a game earlier this month, for instance, three or four youngish and smiling people jogged onto the court, each waving over their head a giant cut-out of a player' ... More >>

City Hall Power Knocked Out By Fire

An electrical fire at City Hall knocked out power to the building last night, leaving much of the seat of government in the dark this morning -- and a portion of the basement under water. At around 9:30 last night -- while around 300 guests attended a private soiree -- the small, electrical fire bro ... More >>

Warriors Arena: 13 Percent Interest Rates Assailed as "Outrageous"

For those without clear memories of the 1970s, the specter of double-digit interest rates on loans is something one would likely associate with a dead fish being left on your doorstep. There'll be no fish-based payment reminders in the ongoing effort between the city and Golden State Warriors to ere ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Whoa: Lil B Tries Out for Golden State Warriors' D-League Team

When Lil B tweeted last month that he was going to try out for the Golden State Warriors, it was met with the same skepticism as when he said he was Miley Cyrus or Paris Hilton or Matlock. But our Young Based God actually did it this past Sunday, when he suited up and got on the basketball court at ... More >>

Lorenzo Jimenez Murder: Police Release Sketch of Suspect Wanted in Shooting of Local Bouncer

Police are asking for your help in locating the man responsible for shooting 24-year-old Lorenzo Jimenez who was shot to death earlier this summer. On June 8, Jimenez, a local bouncer for the Roaring 20s Strip Club in North Beach, had been with several friends at the Double Dutch bar near 16th and ... More >>

Warriors Coach Mark Jackson Was Allegedly Extorted By a Former Mistress

On April 3, a man walked up to Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson in a Memphis hotel, according to a criminal complaint filed this week in federal court in Oakland. The Warriors were in town to play the Grizzlies. The man showed Jackson a folder filled with "compromising pictures" of Jackson - ... More >>

Plenty of NorCal High School Kids Will Miss Graduation Because of Senior Pranks

It's that time of year: The Golden State Warriors are making a top-10 draft pick, tourists are under-dressed for the coastal breezes, and high-schoolers are being barred from graduation ceremonies because of senior pranks.This week, 51 seniors at Heritage High in Brentwood and 30 more at McClatchy H ... More >>

Yes, the Warriors Moving to S.F. Would Mean a Big New Concert Arena in the City

San Francisco is so tiny, dense, and developed that the only way to put a new stadium here is to build one on top of some piers over the bay. Okay, so that's not a huge surprise. But building a giant arena over the bay was the dead-serious plan announced yesterday by city officials and the owners o ... More >>

Golden State Warriors Owners Confirm Plan to Move to San Francisco

When Golden State Warriors brass told Oakland that the city was "still in the running," they might as well have said, "I do still want to be with you, I just think it would be best for both of us to see other people for a little bit, so we can grow as individuals before committing to each other." M ... More >>

Warriors, City Make Stadium Plans Official -- But "Nothing" in Writing Yet

The city and the Golden State Warriors held a press conference today on Piers 30-32 -- and everybody came. The mayor! The lieutenant governor! The police and fire chiefs! Rose Pak! The starting power forward! A platoon of laborers who moved shrubberies to strategic locations! Everybody! Whether the ... More >>

Golden State Warriors Are Probably Moving to San Francisco

There is an immediate bit of good news accompanying the reports that the Golden State Warriors are moving to San Francisco: There's a strong chance the team will finally trash the comically antiquated "Golden State" part of the name, which it absurdly adopted when it moved from San Francisco to Oakl ... More >>

Warriors Fans Now Know the Euphamisms for Tanking

The Warriors have lost 13 of their last 15 games. With six regular season games left, it is becoming increasingly crucial that the Warriors continue, if not exceed, their current losing trend. A few years ago, the team traded its 2012 first round pick for Marcus Williams, who would score a total of ... More >>

Don Nelson's Time in Golden State Was Like A Four Loko Bender

Don Nelson's stints as head coach of the Warriors were like those nights when a group friends decide to shotgun a case of Four Loko then club hop through the city. Those nights start off gloriously. There's excitement and energy and gratuitous high-fiving and within hours they're locking down extra ... More >>

Warriors Fans Take Out 20 Years of Frustration on Owner Joe Lacob (Video)

​No Monta Ellis, no Jeremy Lin, no Dwight Howard, probably no playoffs, and possibly no lottery pick. So it's not surprising that there were no cheers for Warriors owner Joe Lacob last night during Chris Mullin's jersey retirement ceremony. There were plenty of boos, though.When Lacob took the mic ... More >>

Live Review, 3/1/12: The Red Bull Thre3style DJ Contest Comes to Ruby Skye

​The Red Bull Thre3style Contest, featuring Miles Medina, John Beaver, DJ Zita, DJ Playtime, DJ Theory, King Most, DJ Just, Four Color Zack Thursday, March 1, 2012 Ruby Skye Better than: Being in an orgy of DJs. One of the world's preeminent DJ competitions, Red Bull's Thre3style DJ Battle made ... More >>

Jeremy Lin Latest One Who Got Away from Warriors

​The Golden State Warriors' transcendent moments have resonated so strongly because the team's status quo is unmitigated failure. Failure has built up atop failure, creating a rich loam with which to grow more failure. The franchise that traded Robert Parrish and the draft pick that became Kevin M ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

R.I.P. Solomon Kahn, DJ for the Golden State Warriors, 1977-2012

Solomon Kahn, a beloved local DJ who performed at such diverse venues as Oracle Arena, AT&T Park, and every major club in San Francisco, was tragically killed Tuesday, Jan. 31, in Bangkok, Thailand, in a car accident. He was 34. Kahn, known to clubgoers as DJ Solomon, was in Thailand as a part of a ... More >>

Solomon Kahn, Beloved Giants DJ, Tragically Killed in Thailand

R.I.P.​Solomon Kahn, the popular DJ known to clubgoers as DJ Solomon, was killed in a car accident Tuesday in Bangkok, Thailand.Kahn, who performed at Golden State Warriors games and at AT&T Park as well as major clubs in San Francisco, was on tour in Thailand with his fiancee, Nicole Cronin w ... More >>

Monta Ellis Sexting Scandal Aptly Illustrated by Crazy Taiwanese Animation

Everyone can appreciate a good sexting scandal, whether it involves a lonely politician or a seemingly untouchable pro athlete (pun intended). Yesterday, media outlets were graced not just with the story of Golden State Warriors star guard Monta Ellis' sexting, but photos of his penis that he allege ... More >>

Monta Ellis' (Alleged) Penis Waved Around by Lawyer

Dunk = good. Junk = bad. ​In a likely legal first, an attorney representing a former Golden State Warriors employee who claims she received unwelcome and explicit text messages from star guard Monta Ellis brandished an enlarged photo of a schlong for the gathered hordes of media. "We don't care if ... More >>

Charlie Bell, Golden State Warriors Player, Allegedly Shows Up to DUI Hearing Drunk

Slammed Drunk?​In what appears to be a boozy cry for help, Golden State Warriors guard Charlie Bell allegedly went to his DUI hearing -- drunk.Bell was taken to jail Thursday in his hometown of Flint, Mich., after a scheduled alcohol screening showed that Bell's blood alcohol content level was .09 ... More >>

Did Blake Griffin Dunk at Specchio?

Liam PassmoreL.A. Clippers rookie dunking phenom Blake Griffin (in blue sweater) with teammates at Specchio.​In town last week to play Golden State, the L.A. Clippers ― including human highlight reel and latest cheap-shot target Blake Griffin ― slipped into Specchio for dinner (not the fir ... More >>

Mario Elie, Dana Stubblefield: Bad Day For Former Bay Area Athletes

​Three's a trend -- and, as any outside shooter with his foot on the line knows all too well, two ain't three. Still, Thursday was a bad day for two former Bay Area superstars whose names remind local fans of better days. Former Golden State Warrior Mario Elie, currently an assistant coach with th ... More >>

Lucas Anthony Tang, Toddler, Plunges to Death At Warriors-Lakers Game

​Our sister paper, OC Weekly, tracked down the identity of the 2-year-old who fell to his death from a luxury box following yesterday's Golden State Warriors-Los Angeles Lakers game at the Staples Center. The Child was Lucas Anthony Tang of Garden Grove in Orange County.

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Woah, Nellie: Warriors Coach Don Nelson Reportedly Pushed Out

The Don is gone...​When the Golden State Warriors' once and future coach, Don Nelson, won his record 1,333rd game, SF Weekly congratulated him. And urged him to retire. Nelson is the source of just about every fond pro basketball memory any Bay Area fan too young to remember fashionable plaid jack ... More >>

Matt Barnes, Former Warrior, Booked for Domestic Violence

Matt Barnes, self-described 'victim'​Matt Barnes, the former Golden State Warriors team captain -- and San Francisco Pro-Am champ -- has notified his Twitter followers he's not guilty of felony domestic violence. The current Los Angeles Laker claims, rather, that he is the victim in a confrontatio ... More >>

Chris Cohan's Worst Screwups As Warriors Owner

​With the end of Warriors owner Chris Cohan's 16-year tour of mismanagement here, long-suffering fans of the franchise are jubilant. The team was sold for a record $450 million to a group led by Joseph Lacob, a Celtics part-owner and partner at the Menlo Park venture capital firm KPCB; and Mandala ... More >>

Warriors Sold -- But Not to Larry Ellison

Meet the new boss, Joe Lacob​Billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's quest to buy his favorite basketball team has been stuffed. The long-awaited sale of the Golden State Warriors was announced today, for a record $450 million -- but the winning bidder was Joseph Lacob, a part-owner of the Boston C ... More >>

Reports: Larry Ellison's Purchase of Golden State Warriors Imminent

Oracle Corporate CommunicationsHave you come to rescue us, Larry Ellison? ​Larry Ellison, the richer-than-Croesus CEO of Oracle and yachting enthusiast, is reportedly in the final stages of purchasing the Golden State Warriors. The move would likely be greeted with glee by fans of the NBA franchis ... More >>

Golden State Warriors' Bay Bridge Logo Arriving This Week From China

For the bridge, it's a great time out...​How overdue is the erection of the eastern span of the Bay Bridge? Well, the Golden State Warriors couldn't wait for the span to actually exist before adopting it as their new logo. With portions of the signature tower sections set to arrive in Oakland tomo ... More >>

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

He came, he saw, he tweeted​Dude, I don't even know what happened this week. Do you? Answer the questions correctly, mail us all your answers here, and you'll win a damn prize. Onward! 1. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev lost his Twitter virginity this week in San Francisco. What was the rough tr ... More >>

Cormega Gets Crowd Moving at First-Ever Bay Area Show

​Cormega June 17, 2010 The Rockit Room Better Than: South Bronx. South, South Bronx. The latest in Sellassie's on-going hip-hop series We All We Got brought Cormega to the Richmond District for his first Bay Area appearance ever. Rockit Room's upstairs venue was a fragrant hotbox stuffed with par ... More >>

Mistah FAB & DJ Spair's 'Hella Dope' Take On Local/Low-Brow Culture Might Offend You

​Question: What do the Golden State Warriors, Stewie Griffin from the TV show Family Guy, Donkey Kong, Mims' "This is Why I'm Hot," and rather offensive charicatures of drunk Mexicans have in common?(Answer after the jump...)

Golden State Warriors' New Logo Incorporates Yet-To-Be-Built Bay Bridge

​Let's get this out of the way: We like it. We hated Thunder and do not mourn his passing. The Golden State Warriors' new logo, clearly modeled after the yet-to-be-erected eastern span of the Bay Bridge, brings us a wave of nostalgia the team's play of late has not. Not only are the new-old (old-n ... More >>

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson NOT Joining Arizona Boycott

Kevin Johnson reveals he's always loathed AZ bigotryHere Gavin: Fake!Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson, a former point guard for the Phoenix Suns, announced Wednesday he'd join Gavin Newsom's boycott of Arizona. That turned out to be a political pump-fake: Johnson changed his mind hours later.In a mid ... More >>

Congratulations, Don Nelson. Now Retire.

Alone at the top​Last night, the Golden State Warriors dispatched Minnesota, 116-107. This year, any victory for the Warriors is cause for celebration; the team is struggling to win 30 percent of its games. But this one was special: It was victory No. 1,333 for coach Don Nelson -- the league's all ... More >>

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