Slippery Rock 70
PB&J (Playoff Barnes & jam) All of Dub Nation is breathing a little easier today, now that our team has reached the nice round number of 70 wins – and clinched the #1 seed throughout the...
View ArticleThere Are No Clever Headlines for 71
Why can't I get any calls? My hope is that in retrospect we’ll look at last night’s game as something we all just had to suffer through – an annoyingly close game against a shorthanded but scrappy...
View Article72 and Counting
'I'd kiss you if you'd take out your damn mouthguard for once.' Last night a basketball game was played in San Antonio, Texas between the home team, who call themselves the Spurs, and a bunch of guys...
View ArticleThe Running of the Bulls’ Mouths
An interesting subplot to the current NBA season has been how the various members of the old Chicago Bulls have reacted to the Warriors’ attempt to break their record. First Scottie Pippen came out...
View Article73 Is a Magic Number
It is done. Last night the Golden State Warriors defeated the Memphis Grizzlies, 125–104, to secure their 73rd win of the season against 9 losses. That’s a record. Meanwhile, down in Southern...
View ArticleRound 1, Game 1: Warriors 104, Rockets 78
That the Warriors handled the Houston Rockets easily last night seems almost beside the point, as old nightmares revived themselves when Steph Curry came up limping in the 2nd quarter. He had just...
View ArticleRound 1, Game 2: Warriors 115, Rockets 106
Ole! Dub Nation was a little nervous ahead of this game when we learned that Steph Curry, who is nursing a sore ankle and foot, would not be playing. Steph is our security blanket, our good luck charm,...
View ArticleRound 1, Game 3: Rockets 97, Warriors 96
It was kind of a shitty day yesterday. Prince died, the Warriors lost. The less said about it the better, I think. We’ll talk later.
View ArticleRound 1, Game 4: Warriors 121, Rockets 94
We'll probably be seeing more of this. This was one of the stranger basketball games I’ve seen in a while. It was a back-and-forth affair, tied at 56 near the end of the first half, when Steph Curry...
View ArticleThese are the times that try men’s souls
The Nation is freaking out right now about the news that Steph Curry has a sprained medial collateral ligament and is expected to be out for two weeks. And while this is not good news, exactly, it...
View ArticleKeep calm and Curry on
It’s been a complicated couple days for Warriors fans, with news coming down that first Chris Paul and then Blake Griffin – the despised LA Clippers’ two best players – had sustained season-ending...
View ArticleRound 1, Game 5: Warriors 114, Rockets 81
Klay Thompson discusses his postgame plans with the media. What a relief. After two days of Steph-Curry’s-right-knee-related angst, it was nice to have an actual basketball game to focus on. And the...
View ArticleDraymond Green quote of the day
Day-Day on Steph Curry, agreeing that he is better when Steph plays: “If he doesn’t make you better, YOU suck.”
View ArticleRound 2, Game 1: Warriors 118, Blazers 106
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s...the Warriors’ second-best player. (Or is it third?) Even in this age of technology, you just get stuck sometimes. Yesterday my beloved and I were en route home from...
View ArticleRound 2, Game 2: Warriors 110, Blazers 99
Let's dance. Until about 9:15 PDT yesterday, it really did not look like the Warriors’ night. For three quarters everything the Portland Trail Blazers threw at the rim had been going in, while the...
View ArticleRound 2, Game 3: Blazers 120, Warriors 108
I think the Blazers won because of this guy. It was a rough night for the W’s in Portland last night; they were off their game and the opposition Portland Trail Blazers were en fuego, with Damian...
View ArticleRound 2, Game 4: Warriors 132, Blazers 125
Early yesterday word came down that Stephen Curry was going to be named MVP of the NBA for the second straight year, surprising absolutely no one. Quoth the Draymond: “I felt kind of bad today,...
View ArticleRound 2, Game 5: Warriors 125, Blazers 121
The Warriors have won two playoff series and are still waiting for Playoff Barnes to show up. All last night the announcers were saying that Game 5 was a “win or go home” situation for the Trail...
View ArticleRound 3, Game 1: Thunder 108, Warriors 102
I found this picture on the website NewsOK.com, which captioned it ‘Oklahoma City's Steven Adams (12) is fouled by Golden State.’ Em, wrong on several levels. But it was that kind of night. For some...
View ArticleRound 3, Game 2: Warriors 118, Thunder 91
That was a little more like it. The Nation was in a tizzy the last couple days, as it always is whenever the Warriors do the unthinkable, lose a game. And this time it was a playoff game, at home no...
View Article