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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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Miami Horror Thinks American Culture Is Strange, Is Not That Into the '80s

Miami Horror sheds some light​Everyone's talking about Miami these days, whether it be the electronic show to end all --  Ultra Music Festival -- or how horrible the Miami Heat is playing. Break out of those mundane conversations and introduce your ears to Australian band Miami Horror, k ... 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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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 >>

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 >>

LeBron James: A Whore For Our Times

​First things first: LeBron James owed the Cleveland Cavaliers and their fans nothing. Professional basketball is a business. And, in choosing to jilt the Cavs and the fans who had loved and supported him since his schoolboy days, he ostensibly made a business decision. Cold-hearted -- but that's ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Warriors Rolling Ticket Prices Back to 1976 Levels Tomorrow

J.D. McCarthy basketball cardRick Barry was in his heyday the last time you could plink down eight bucks to watch the Warriors​The Golden State Warriors are losing two-thirds of their games, many of the team's most promising players are wearing business suits while sitting on the injured reserve, ... More >>

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Rate the Warriors' Latest Panic Trade

Another lump of coal in the Warriors' stocking​Yesterday's unloading of malcontent guard Stephen Jackson was the latest installment of a longtime Golden State Warriors tradition: Sending talented and disgruntled stars out of town for mere cents on the dollar. But how bad was it compared to the tea ... More >>

Mr. and Mrs. Charming -- He's Got a Machete, She's Drunk -- Terrorize the Sunset

In response to the common San Francisco notion that nothing ever happens out in the avenues -- and in an homage to the NBA's latest line of advertisements -- we present you with a new slogan -- The Sunset: Where machete-wielding crazies and their inebriated girlfriends happen. In the wee hours Sunda ... More >>

S.F. Impresario Claims Partner In Exhibiting Pro Basketball Games Ripped Him Off for $124K. NBA Action -- It's Faaaantastic!

Basketball can be beautiful -- but not when your buddies are (allegedly) bilking you out of hundreds of thousands of dollarsIn a case that we will refrain from spicing up with any references to whistles for hard fouls, the Palace at Auburn Hills Melee, or any other NBA basketball arcana, a local man ... More >>

Flogging Molly to Play Two Nights at the Fillmore

Hip-hop with a Golden Era glow: The Cool Kids

My Tunes: Kelenna Azubuike

Warrior and music lover

Beastie Boys Q&A: B-Boys Visit Bay Area For Rhymin', Stealin', B. Diddy and Warriors Basketball

Full Nelson

Can pro basketball's second-winningest coach put the Warriors back on the warpath? Don't count him out too quick.

Hoop Dreaming

Basketball as a metaphor for life almost works on stage

Posterizing EA

NBA 2K7 towers over the competition

Hustle & Flow

He can defend and fly with the best of them. But can the rookie straight out of high school stick in the NBA?

Full Court Pressure

College Hoops 2K6 will bring out your inner Bobby Knight.

Best Reason for Warriors Fans to Remain Skeptical

Best Reason for Warriors Fans to Have Hope

Best Reason to Go to a Warriors Game

Round One!

Get KO'd at the Cow Palace

He Stats! He Scores!

Aptos statistics geek Roland Beech just might change how the NBA plays -- and you watch -- basketball

Nice Guys Finish First

The Positive Coaching Alliance asks hard-bitten coaches to fill out workbooks and recite management jargon. It also has them saying things like, "I want to go back and relive my childhood and be coached like this."

Best Coach

Eric Musselman, Golden State Warriors

Best Warriors Fans

Bob Fitzgerald and Jim Barnett

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This is NOT a story about L.A. Lakers star Kobe Bryant

Meet John Cox, a USF swingman who is a cousin and friend to Kobe -- and quite at home with his own game and his own life

Daydream Believers

In the middle of another catastrophic season, the Golden State Warriors refuse to face the probability that they're as bad as they seem

Apocalypse, Now and Then

A measured look at the serious policy implications of recent changes in San Francisco newspaper ownership

Still a Beautiful Mess

Once considered just another L.A. rock casualty, former Thelonious Monster leader Bob Forrest returns to the land of the living with the Bicycle Thief