Scott Howard-Cooper
With chance to steal game at Golden State and a 1-1 tie, Portland lets double-digit, fourth-quarter lead slip through fingers.
Series-clinching 114-81 rout over Houston sends Golden State rolling into West semifinals with welcome momentum.
Portland's star came up clutch when his team needed him most.
Kerr lists team's centerpiece as questionable for Game 2
Warriors going for it all: 73 wins, title, for some, the Olympics.
Achieving Big O's historic season still proves to be a difficult feat
Over the last two months, the rookie guard has proven why he went No. 2 overall in the 2015 Draft.
After being sidelined 14 games with an injury, Denver's rookie guard realized what was missing in his game.
Idea floated to add new jobs, keep talent from going abroad
NBA has little data to consider for possible rules changes
A run of challenging opponents hasn't disrupted Golden State's flow, but rather, made them stronger than ever before.
This isn't about drawing attention because of his famous last name or wanting to follow in his father's footsteps as a Slam Dunk champion. In fact, it's quite the opposite.
A run at the Chicago Bulls' 72-win season of 1995-96 doesn't seem too far fetched after Golden State's record-setting start.
Golden State has a chance at an NBA-record 16-0 start and hasn't even hit on all cylinders in 2015-16.
The latest edition of Scott Howard-Cooper's Rookie Ladder is in! Can anyone unseat Karl-Anthony Towns?
Ben Simmons of LSU and Skal Labissiere of Kentucky are more than likely to be two of the top players in the NCAA this season.
OAKLAND — It all could have been so different, something other than the Warriors on top of the NBA, still, and an increasing chorus of playful jabs about whether Steve Kerr will be up to the challenge of replacing Luke Walton as coach.
One game after team meltdown, Sacramento shines on court.
The San Antonio Spurs' forward (and former Blazers superstar) knows his first trip back to Oregon will be 'weird'.
Defensive issues are keeping Denver (and its jet-fast rookie point guard) from reaching an optimum tempo.
The inevitable change could have been tracked by a stopwatch rather than a calendar, it turned out, with Lakers coach Byron Scott waiting all the way until the second game to make D'Angelo Russell the starting point guard. Why? Because Jordan Clarkson may have been a success story last season in going from No. 46 pick to first-team All-Rookie, but Russell has a chance to be special.
Rematch of Western Conference semifinals brings back memories, ends in Warriors' 50-point drubbing of Grizzlies.
Even as it opens 2015-16 with a win, Los Angeles has work to do to recover from the West semifinals collapse.
OAKLAND — The walk, about 15 feet, will have taken eight years and eight months.
The general managers have spoken: Jahlil Okafor of the 76ers is the favorite within front offices to win Rookie of the Year and Minnesota's Karl-Anthony Towns is second choice. Big man and big man.
Veteran forward poised to take on multiple roles.
Champs hope to keep continuity until Kerr recovers from surgery.
Tuesday night, as the wrenching news from Nevada started to trickle out and a layer of darkness descended on the NBA, Luke Walton received several texts in Oakland as he was preparing to coach the Warriors against the Nuggets in a 7:40 tip.
Franchise is attempting to brand itself beyond the basketball court
Unlike the Draft class of 2014, the top prospects are healthy, here and ready for a long race for Kia Rookie of the Year honours.
The Hornets in August rewarded Michael Kidd-Gilchrist with a 4-year deal worth $52 million.
OAKLAND, Calif. — The world got smaller.
So, DeMarcus Cousins vs. George Karl.
Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Andrew Bogut, Draymond Green, Harrison Barnes and Andre Iguodala on the court, Steve Kerr on the sideline, Bob Myers and Joe Lacob in the front office.
Short stint in Turkey wasn't enough to push the dynamic guard into the 2017 group, which includes Shaquille O'Neal.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — They were joined together again Friday night as a different kind of ultimate winner, the historical bond now stronger than ever through the decades that have taken an obvious and unfortunate toll.
The gesture of choice this time, on Thursday afternoon while talking to reporters in a room on the second floor of the Hall of Fame, was a head nodding in certainty accentuated with a slight knowing smile. No finger wag. A few bobs and a grin.
They are, strangely, the forgotten years, two-plus seasons as a head coach in the NBA and another as an assistant that ordinarily would be near the top line of a resume but in this case are more like an afterthought.
The NBA announced new rules for playoff seeding that includes ranking the top eight teams in each conference strictly in order of best record, essentially making winning a division title little more than a ceremonial distinction.
The complete list of presenters for the Hall of Fame enshrinement was released Tuesday, part of the buildup to the ceremony Friday night in Springfield, Mass.
With four of last year's starters gone, Portland must rely on Lillard.
Detroit's Stanley Johnson highlights the final Rookie Ladder of the Summer League schedule.
Rookies get in quality work while remaining injury free.
Since Finals lineup suggestion, life has changed for U'Ren.
And then there’s the interested observer.
In a quiet place of a quiet building during a quiet time of the Jazz season, Danté Exum was talking very loud.
The official word is that Marcus Smart missed 10 Celtics games last season with a sprained left ankle, from Nov. 8 through Dec. 2, and two more with a strained Achilles’ tendon in the same leg in what was probably a related injury.
SALT LAKE CITY — He heard his name called during pregame introductions, and bam!
Knicks, Lakers approach Draft with future -- not quick fix -- in mind
Emmanuel Mudiay literally and figuratively went straight back at the guy who asked the question Wednesday, responding in attitude as well as words, ducking nothing, accepting everything.
Likely first-round pick will follow father, uncle and brother into NBA.
Versatile power forward groomed for rigours on and off court.
The final week countdown to the 2015 NBA Draft has arrived with calculators needed to count the possible scenarios for the top half of the lottery alone, so many potential twists that the 2014 selections are still in play and that doctors may still have a say in what happens in the war rooms in 2015.
Five things we learned from the Warriors' 104-91 victory over the Cavaliers in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Sunday at Oracle Arena.
Joel Embiid is recovering, after a season of Nerlens Noel in the same waiting game. Dario Saric is in Europe. And Sam Hinkie is under the microscope.
It's just one game. Stephen Curry and the Warriors kept saying it over and over.
LeBron James had just scored 44 points and yet there was Warriors coach Steve Kerr praising Andre Iguodala, describing Iguodala's defence as "fantastic" and saying "I thought Andre did extremely well" with the assignment that by law should come with a blindfold and cigarette.
There was still a gathering of reporters around David Lee as he sat on the visitor's bench on Media Day Wednesday afternoon, which was a good thing. He was being noticed.
He would take the grease board back to his suite at the Bellagio and practice drawing up plays, literally practice getting faster at scribbling sets with a dry-erase marker while high above the Strip, because Steve Kerr felt he was wasting valuable seconds during timeouts as he coached the Warriors in the Las Vegas Summer League.
The memories of that night have not faded three years to the month later. He remembers walking out of his own Draft party and initially refusing to return. He recalls starting to root for a bigger fall so the Pistons could select him, which would have changed everything. And he definitely remembers the rage.
One flat screen is already turned on five feet in front of Randy Bennett in the private room tucked into a corner of Stadium Pub, a sports bar 10-minutes from the St. Mary's campus. A waitress adjusts the volume on a second TV on the wall about four feet over Bennett's right shoulder.
Fourth quarter, Game 5 of the Western Conference finals, Oracle Arena close to boiling over, a historic trip to the championship series fast approaching. And out of nowhere Harrison Barnes thought about 2012.
OAKLAND — Warriors guard Stephen Curry said Wednesday morning he feels fine nearly two days after an ugly fall and expects to play without restrictions tonight in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals as Golden State tries to close out the Rockets and advance to the championship series against the Cavaliers.
The value of Draymond Green being named first-team All-Defence and Andrew Bogut making second-team?
The good news, because there actually is some: It was the left knee this time, not the one that cost him 41 games in the regular season, and the initial diagnosis on Tuesday night was that Dwight Howard had suffered a bruise when the impact from Josh Smith crashing into the leg in the first quarter could have been much worse.
The big Timberwolves win is now followed by the big Timberwolves decision.
The Hornets are considering shutting down center Al Jefferson for the final seven games of the season, coach Steve Clifford said Friday night after continued soreness in the right knee forced Jefferson from the game in the second quarter.
What a difference a year makes. And another 60 draft picks. And coaching changes. And trades, free agency and retirement. And medical updates. Especially medical updates.
Chauncey Billups’ candidacy for the Hall of Fame, now that he has retired and the clock officially starts on the enshrinement conversation, begins with a problem: the greatest selling point for a ticket to Springfield, Mass., is a tough sell.
