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BOSTON, United States (AFP) — Boston’s backs are against the wall heading into game six of the NBA Finals, but Celtics star Jaylen Brown vowed they won’t back down against the Golden State Warriors. “We’re looking forward to the challenge,” Brown said Wednesday. “We’ve got to embrace it. Ain’t no other way around it. Last game on our home floor to kind of embody our whole season. “We’re looking to give it everything we’ve got. […]
BOSTON, United States (AFP) — Golden State star Stephen Curry was emphatic Thursday in confirming he’ll play game four of the NBA Finals, despite suffering a foot injury in the Warriors’ game three loss to the Boston Celtics. “I’m going to play,” Curry said at practice Thursday. “That’s all I know right now.” The Warriors trail 2-1 in the best-of-seven championship series heading into game four at Boston’s TD Garden. Curry was among the Warriors […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Al Horford led an electrifying fourth quarter comeback as the Boston Celtics stunned the Golden State Warriors 120-108 to draw first blood in their best-of-seven NBA Finals series on Thursday. Celtics veteran Horford scored 26 points, including 11 in the fourth quarter, as Boston inflicted Golden State’s first home defeat of the post-season at their Chase Center fortress. Horford’s tally included what turned out to be a decisive burst […]
Klay Thompson scored a game-high 32 points and the Golden State Warriors advanced to the NBA Finals for the sixth time in eight seasons by defeating Dallas 120-110 on Thursday. The Warriors, chasing a fourth title in eight campaigns, won the best-of-seven Western Conference finals 4-1 and secured a place in June’s title showdown against either the Boston Celtics or Miami Heat. The Celtics carry a 3-2 series lead into Friday’s sixth game of the […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry, sidelined by a sprained ligament in his left foot, won’t return to action before the playoffs, the NBA team said Friday. In a statement posted on the team Twitter feed, the Warriors said Curry was making “good progress” in his recovery but wouldn’t play again in the regular season, which concludes on April 10. “Stephen will gradually begin individual on-court activities next week, […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Golden State Warriors star guard Stephen Curry will have his sprained left foot injury reevaluated in two weeks, the NBA club announced Friday. The 34-year-old sharpshooter underwent an MRI exam Wednesday night after suffering the injury late in the second quarter of a loss to the Boston Celtics. The MRI revealed Curry had suffered a sprained left foot ligament, the Warriors said, and that he will be reexamined at […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Three-time NBA champion Klay Thompson returned from a 31-month injury absence on Sunday as the Golden State Warriors celebrated “Klay Day” with a 96-82 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers. Thompson — who won titles with the Warriors in 2015, 2017 and 2018 — received a rapturous welcome at Chase Center in San Francisco. It was his first game in the arena, which the Warriors have only called home since […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — After Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry broke the record for career three-pointers in the NBA, here’s a look at five other key individual marks that — for now — remain unreachable in the league: Wilt Chamberlain’s century NBA great Wilt Chamberlain scored an astounding 100 points in a single game on March 2, 1962, when his Philadelphia Warriors beat the New York Knicks 169-147. Chamberlain, who retired from […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The Golden State Warriors rallied late to edge the Indiana Pacers 102-100 on Monday as two-time league MVP Stephen Curry now sits just two three-pointers back of breaking Ray Allen’s NBA all-time record. Curry came into the game needing seven threes to break the milestone. He scored 26 points and drained five threes, and now needs just one to tie and two to break Allen’s mark of 2,973. Curry […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Stephen Curry produced a three-point masterclass as the Golden State Warriors thrashed the Brooklyn Nets 117-99 to underscore their championship credentials on Tuesday. Curry led the scoring with 37 points — 27 of them from outside the arc — to give the Warriors an emphatic win on the road over the Nets and former Golden State teammate Kevin Durant. It was a superb all-round effort from the Warriors, who […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Stephen Curry scored a season-high 50 points and 10 assists as the Golden State Warriors improved to a NBA-leading 9-1 with a 127-113 rout of the Atlanta Hawks on Monday. It was the 10th career 50-point game for the 33-year-old Curry, who passed Wilt Chamberlain to become the oldest player in NBA history with a 50-point, 10-assist game. Chamberlain did it when he was 31. In 35 minutes of […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Golden State Warriors swingman Andrew Wiggins has been vaccinated against Covid-19 and will be able to play in NBA home games this season, coach Steve Kerr said on Sunday. Wiggins’ status was in doubt after the San Francisco Department of Public Health announced anyone age 12 or older had to be fully vaccinated to attend indoor events in the city. “Andrew got vaccinated,” Kerr said after a team practice. […]
