Golden State Warriors

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr refused to talk about basketball before his team's playoff game against the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night.

But the news of what is happening, not just here in Texas but throughout our country, is sad.” The winner will advance to the NBA finals, where they will play the Miami Heat or Boston Celtics. I ask you: Are you going to put your own desire for power ahead of the lives of our children and our elderly and our churchgoers? “We will truly play with heavy hearts tonight for the community, for the school of Robb Elementary School,” Kidd said. I am so tired of the, excuse me, I am sorry, I am tired of the moments of silence. Kerr looked into the camera before addressing the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell. “I ask you, Mitch McConnell, I ask all of you senators who refuse to do anything about the violence and school shootings and supermarket shootings.

The Dallas Mavericks are on the board. Avoiding the sweep with a convincing win at home, although it did get closer than many anticipated, the team was able ...

It will be tough for Dallas in Golden State, as the Warriors have been dominant on their home floor all season, but they are not ready to quit. I think our defense was amazing today," Luka said. The Dallas Mavericks are on the board.

Rain leaking through the roof of the American Airlines Center delayed the second half of Game 4 of the Western Conference finals by 16 minutes on Tuesday ...

During the delay, players from both teams stood near half court looking up at the ceiling, with a couple of Warriors players playing rock, paper, scissors to pass the time. It also delayed the start of a Timberwolves-Mavericks game by 15 minutes back on March 21. DALLAS -- Golden State's Splash Brothers were trying not to get wet at the start of the second half Tuesday night as water leaked through the roof of the American Airlines Center, delaying Game 4 of the Western Conference finals between the Warriors and Mavericks by 16 minutes.

The column laid out valid enough reasoning, highlighting Dallas's stout defense—and the fact that the Mavs had contained Stephen Curry better than just about ...

Interestingly enough, Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez—the incoming owners of the Timberwolves—apparently came in with a similar strategy, wanting to find a star executive to lead the organization, and having a willingness to open not only the pocketbook but some of the profits, too, to get who they wanted. It left New York with a fundamentally different situation than the Heat, which, just months before Riley’s exit, were sold to Micky Arison. When he got ownership of the club from Billy Cunningham and Lewis Schaffel, Arison took 88% of the Heat, an acquisition that gave him relatively unilateral ability to hand over a cut of the organization to Riley as they negotiated a deal for him to join the Heat. You can read the book excerpt concerning Riley’s controversial exit from New York in The New York Times. He’s one of the nicest people in the industry, but also one of the very brightest in terms of spelling out the game to people eager to understand it better. I have to admit: I’m always a bit fascinated when someone gets a dual role, where they serve as part of the coaching staff and as part of management, while handling player personnel. Yet New York had a contract extension offer on the table to double the $1.5 million he earned per year—an amount that would have given him $15 million over the next five years. Chris Mannix was in the mysterious NBA draft lottery room last week and did a behind-the-scenes write-up on what that process is like to be a part of. This year’s return of Thompson, paired with the emergence of Poole, has given the Warriors a new look that makes Wiggins dangerous in a way he probably couldn’t have ever been as a No. 1 or even a No. 2 scorer with the Timberwolves. It was part of the reason why Dallas looked beyond lost as it blew a 19-point advantage and couldn’t string together stops in the final quarter of Game 2. And it’s an almost cruel exercise, given how much mental and physical stamina is required to guard the Warriors, which treat their offensive possessions like a sped-up version of the teacup rides at Disney, with multiple players racing around, screening for one another in weird spots. There’s also plenty to be said for the other side of the ball, where Wiggins is utilizing the strategy the Mavs used to perfection a round ago: To repeatedly make the opposing team’s primary ballhandler work far harder than usual on defense. - Kevon Looney, the generally quiet center, has made life miserable for Dallas on the offensive glass and as a dump-off man, who consistently maneuvers behind the Mavs’ confused, overextended defense. As you might have noticed, Golden State has made the man who penned that piece look funny in the light.

The Warriors threatened a monumental comeback, but ultimately fell short in Tuesday's 119-109 loss in Dallas. With the loss, the Warriors' series advantage ...

Dinwiddie - 8 Kleber - 8 Green - 6 Poole - 14 Green - 6 Kuminga - 8

Facing elimination at home in Game 4, they responded to get their first win of the Western Conference finals, beating the Golden State Warriors 119-109 on ...

Arena workers had to climb up onto the catwalks near the roof and set up a tarp system to catch the water. There are few players who can control a game like Doncic, and he was not going to let the Mavericks lose. Aside from the first half of Game 2, they have not in this series, which is why the Mavericks were down 3-0 and facing elimination. In Game 4 they found their stroke, going 20 of 43 from downtown en route to a series-saving win. Then, play was halted due to a leak in the roof of the American Airlines Center. When play finally did resume, the Mavericks picked up right where they left off and built a 29-point lead with some incredible 3-point shooting. The series, which now stands 3-1 in favor of the Warriors will head back to the Bay Area for Game 5 on Thursday night.

The Dallas Mavericks staved off elimination and avoided a series sweep in the Western Conference Finals, as Luka Doncic led his team to a 119-109 win over ...

"The next part is to find a way to win on the road. "This is one and, straight away, we've got to think of the next one. "That's how we've got to play; when we play like this, we're a dangerous team.

Once they did, they avoided a sweep and were still alive in the Western Conference finals. Doncic had 30 points and 14 rebounds, and the Mavericks beat Golden ...

After Doncic and Green stood in the lane together laughing about that, the ball was eventually knocked down. All others ahead of him are either in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, are still active players, or are retired and not yet eligible for Hall induction - such as Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki. One was dropping water near the Golden State bench, and at the other end of the court water appeared to be falling in the stands. Draymond Green went to the free throw line midway through the third quarter and his first attempt came to a complete stop on the wide back side of the rim. The moment also recognized a teacher-coach from Palestine, Texas, who was killed when his car was hit by a wrong-way driver when driving the just more than 100 miles home from Game 3 on Sunday night. It was the second such delay this season in the 21-year-old building. Golden State was up 31-29 after a jumper by Moses Moody, then had only one made basket the next seven minutes. A moment of silence just before tipoff came hours after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at a Texas elementary school about 375 miles away in Uvalde, Texas, which is west of San Antonio in the southern part of the state. Only three of the 146 teams to fall in that deep hole have even been able to force a seventh game. The Mavericks have been swept in a best-of-seven only once in their 34 such series. But they never got closer even after Curry and other starters returned to the floor. ''Just got to finish the game.