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Curry sprains ankle in Team USA practice

Warriors guard Stephen Curry sprained his ankle during Wednesday's practice for Team USA in Madrid, Spain. ESPN reports that the injury looked serious at first, but that there is no structural damage to the ankle. Here's an excerpt from ESPN's article: Curry landed on a teammate's foot during a scrimmage [...]

By | August 18th, 2010|1 Comment

Curry, Gordon … and Westbrook for final spot?

Team USA made a couple cuts over the weekend, letting go of Jeff Green and JaVale McGee. The roster, currently at 13 players, will have one more cut, but that decision could wait until after the team completes its four-game exhibition schedule. Team USA beat France, 86-55, in its first [...]

By | August 16th, 2010|5 Comments

Curry’s spot on Team USA not a lock

Stephen Curry was perceived to be a pretty sure bet to be one of the final 12 players on Team USA's roster. Most felt his outside shooting ability would come in handy in the international game, which gave him the edge over the Clippers' Eric Gordon. Now, with Saturday's performance [...]

By | August 14th, 2010|5 Comments

Curry shows well in U.S. scrimmage

Stephen Curry played well in a scrimmage with Team USA on Thursday at Radio City Music Hall, scoring 14 points, including four 3-pointers down the stretch. Check out this video from NBA.com (via youtube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2SO_aeD5kg Jeff Garcia of projectspurs.com has a nice article about Curry. Read it here. Curry told [...]

By | August 13th, 2010|2 Comments

Breaking down the Warriors’ schedule

The NBA released the regular-season schedules for every team in the NBA on Tuesday. The Warriors open at home against the Houston Rockets on Wednesday, Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m. Then they go on the road and never come home. Or at least it seems that way with how many [...]

By | August 10th, 2010|6 Comments

Money + Curry = 1 more season with Nelson?

Whether you like it or not, it's seeming more likely that Don Nelson will return to coach the Warriors for the start of the 2010-11 season. Nelson, who has led the Warriors to 29 and 26 wins the past two seasons, is owed $6 million in the final year of [...]

By | August 10th, 2010|2 Comments

Curry follow-up: Why 10 assists/game is unlikely

I began responding to a post by Aperacer on Tuesday’s blog entry about Stephen Curry, but the response got so long, I decided to write it as a follow-up entry, instead. Here’s the response from Aperacer: In a way Curry had two seasons last year. The first was a disfunctional [...]

By | August 5th, 2010|5 Comments

Curry’s sophomore trajectory: What history teaches us

I was reading something on a message board a couple weeks ago about Stephen Curry and what kind of statistical jump Warriors fans expect from him in his second season in the NBA. Many of the predictions were astonishing, somewhere in the neighborhood of 20+ points, 5+ rebounds and 10+ [...]

By | August 4th, 2010|8 Comments

Warriors get bump in ESPN’s future power rankings

ESPN's future power rankings (it's an Insider article, but here's the link just in case) rank how NBA teams will fare in upcoming seasons, decided by a formula made up of the following factors: players on the current roster, quality of ownership and management, the financial philosophy of the team, and future draft [...]

By | August 2nd, 2010|4 Comments

Trading Monta Ellis: Part 2

In Friday's entry, we explored the possibility that the new ownership of the Warriors might want to trade Monta Ellis. We then looked at the kind of teams that would be most interested in acquiring Ellis and the kind of pieces the Warriors would want back in a trade. Remember, [...]

By | July 31st, 2010|16 Comments