This topic occurred to me tonight as I watched video of Draymond Green reciting, in selection order, the 34 players who were taken ahead of him in the 2012 NBA draft. This is significant because the Golden State Warriors, who spent their second-round pick that summer on the Big Ten player of the year … […]

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My default setting when it comes to big-time sports in the U.S., both professionals and major colleges, is to apply my speck of psychic energy to the support of teams from the western United States. Thus, I should be sending negative vibes (however that is done) at the Cleveland Cavaliers, who tonight clinched the Eastern […]

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We went for the burritos. We stayed for the NBA. We had been in California for a week without visiting a restaurant serving Mexican food, and that was remedied by a visit to a little place named La Costa, in the Inland Empire city of Redlands. We sat so that we had a good view […]

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For nearly two full NBA seasons, I read a lot about the Golden State Warriors. I saw the occasional clip. But not once in the two seasons in which the Warriors upended the NBA with a rain of three-pointers … did I see as many as five consecutive minutes of any game live. That can […]

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How Clippers is this? Ten hours after learning yesterday that Stephen Curry, leading man of the Golden State Warriors, will be out for two weeks, setting up the possibility of the Clippers being able to beat a weakened Warriors team in the second round of the NBA playoffs … … Chris Paul suffers a broken […]

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The Golden State Warriors play the San Antonio Spurs tomorrow night in San Antonio. This is a big game. The question is … how big? The Warriors have won 71 games and have two to play. The record for victories in a season is 72, by the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls. If the Warriors defeat the […]

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Oh, we of little memory. Villanova hit a three-point shot as time expired to defeat North Carolina 77-74 in the championship game of the NCAA Tournament, and some are calling it the greatest final played. Hang on a minute. This one wasn’t even the greatest final involving Villanova.

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This is remarkable, at first blush, but also in closer analysis. The Golden State Warriors had not lost a home game in 54 tries, extending back to January 27, 2015. We know the Warriors have been the league’s best team, since last season, but to go that long without stubbing their toes at least once […]

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With just more than three-and-a-half minutes to play in their NCAA West Regional tournament game today, Cal State Bakersfield was inbounding the ball in a game against Oklahoma that it trailed only 69-65. That would be Big-Dance-First-Timers Bakersfield. That would be In-D2-a-Decade-Ago Bakersfield. A team with one starter taller than 6-foot-4. The ball was inbounded […]

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This is when fans of Cal State Bakersfield athletics say: “It was worth it after all!” Ten years ago, the Roadrunners gave up a fine reputation as one of the best programs in NCAA Division II … and made the bold/scary/expensive decision to make the climb to Division I, where the big kids play. That […]

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