Tim Duncan had 19 points and 6 rebounds, Kawhi Leonard added 16 points and 10 rebounds, and the Spurs held off a furious final rally to beat the Warriors, 94-82, on Thursday night and advance to the Western Conference finals. San Antonio defeated Golden State, four games to two, in … Continue reading
Latest vivid exhibit: the Knicks. Mike Vaccaro writes in The New York Post that after losing to the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday, they “looked like someone other than Will Hunting trying to figure out the math problem on the wall.” The Pacers, he says, are the smarter team, and also: … Continue reading
“He wasn’t 100 percent,” Jackson said, just minutes after his team rallied to beat the Spurs, 97-87, in overtime, tying the teams’ best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal series, 2-2. “I said to him before the game, How you feeling? He said, ‘I’m going to give you what I got, Coach.’ ” With … Continue reading
It is called the teardrop. And it is the antidunk. If the slam dunk is all power, the teardrop is all finesse, a dandelion fluff of a shot that is nearly always tossed up by the smallest player on the floor. The teardrop floats over defenders’ outstretched hands, arcs toward … Continue reading
Thompson, who scored 29 points in the first half, added 14 rebounds for Golden State, which had not won in San Antonio since Feb. 14, 1997. Tim Duncan scored 23 points for the Spurs, and Tony Parker added 20. KARL NAMED COACH OF YEAR The Denver Nuggets were selfless and … Continue reading
They produced a double head-scratcher of a night. The finishes were so unlikely that it seemed the league was channeling the N.H.L. for a night — an image helped by Bulls guard Nate Robinson needing 10 stitches to close a gash in his face. It started with what was supposed … Continue reading
For the Warriors, that meant putting the ball in the hands of point guard Stephen Curry, who is quickly emerging as the league’s premier shooter. After setting an N.B.A. record for 3-pointers this season, Curry took his game up a notch against the Denver Nuggets. Suddenly looking like this generation’s … Continue reading
The Nuggets, seeded third in the Western Conference and hoping this might be the season they reached their franchise’s first N.B.A. finals, were instead bumped out of the postseason in six games by the No. 6 Golden State Warriors — a young, plucky and talented contender advancing with a 92-88 … Continue reading
By the time the Warriors were performing their last bit of hyperdramatics in closing out Game 6 on Thursday night it was 1 a.m. Eastern time. For Nets-Bulls viewers, it felt like 4 a.m. East Coast fans with day jobs may never have witnessed Stephen Curry’s sublime shooting stroke — … Continue reading
The Nuggets, seeded third in the Western Conference and hoping this might be the season they reach their franchise’s first N.B.A. finals, were instead bumped out of the postseason in six games by the No. 6 Golden State Warriors – a young, plucky and talented contender advancing with a 92-88 … Continue reading
