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After finishing off the Dallas Mavericks, 120-110 in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals behind 32 points from Klay Thompson, the Warriors have a chance to ...

While an ankle tweak in the first quarter appeared to limit his ability to be aggressive offensively. Golden State will play the winner of the Boston Celtics - Miami Heat series, which Boston Currently leads, 3-2. Thompson, who led all scorers, shot 12-for-25 from the floor, knocking down 8 of the 16 three-pointers he attempted.

Golden State clinched its sixth NBA Finals trip in the past eight years, a feat not seen since Michael Jordan's Bulls of the 1990s.

Perhaps still feeling the effects of the past two seasons, which included Curry suffering a long-term hand injury and Thompson enduring two extended injury rehabilitations, the Warriors were careful not to get ahead of themselves as they closed in on this series win. To wit, Golden State improved to 9-0 at home in these playoffs, with all three of its closeout wins coming at Chase Center. Since 2015, the Warriors have a 72-21 record and a perfect 18-0 series mark against West foes in the playoffs. With the score tightened early in the fourth, Thompson returned the favor, threading a pass to Green for a basket in the paint. Early in the second half, Green pushed the ball up the middle in transition and flipped an extended behind-the-back pass to Thompson for another three. Congratulations to the Warriors. They were obviously the better team.” Luka Doncic led the way Thursday with a team-high 28 points, nine rebounds and six assists, and Spencer Dinwiddie added 26 points, including five three-pointers, off the bench. Clad in black from head to toe, the Warriors treated Game 5 like a formal dance, understanding the gravity of the occasion and executing their steps on cue. Within four minutes, the Warriors were up nine, and their lead swelled to 17 at halftime and 25 in the third quarter. Kevon Looney opened the scoring inside, Thompson drained a three-pointer, and Curry set up an Andrew Wiggins dunk and hit a three of his own. “The feeling leaving the 2019 Finals, we had been on an amazing journey and got hit with a lot of adversity and some speed bumps. Now they will seek their fourth title under Coach Steve Kerr against the Boston Celtics or the Miami Heat. Curry, whose comeback from a March foot sprain powered this playoff journey, was named the inaugural winner of the Magic Johnson award, given to the MVP of the Western Conference finals, after he averaged 23.8 points, 6.6 rebounds and 7.4 assists in the series. SAN FRANCISCO — When the Golden State Warriors have it going, they make the defense look lost and apprehensive, overwhelmed by their quick decisions and even quicker triggers.

In November of 2018, in the middle of what would become a four-game losing streak and a week removed the infamous Draymond Green-Kevin Durant sideline ...

If they lose in the Finals, they won't consider this season a success. The Warriors still need four more wins for a fourth championship in the Kerr era, and indeed, this is an organization that expects to win it all. At the end of the day, the Warriors, albeit with fewer fireworks, are putting up a postseason offensive rating in line with the Durant years. They uncovered a gem in Gary Payton II. They resisted the urge to trade Poole or Jonathan Kuminga, or even a Moses Moody or James Wiseman, building their bridge to the next era without sacrificing the championship potential of the current core. Kevon Looney had 22 rebounds in the Game 6 clincher over Memphis, and 18 boards in the Game 5 clincher over Dallas. Jordan Poole is shooting 53 percent through the first three playoff series of his career. Gone are the days when Golden State was running out a borderline Hall of Famer in Andre Iguodala, at the height of his defensive and playmaking powers, as a sixth man. The Warriors always were, and still are, a supremely skilled team, but this team has had to find other, less spectacular ways to win. But they are not the guys they were in the first few chapters of the dynasty. These guys are not the players they used to be, or at least they weren't this season. Those first two postseason runs with Durant on board, the Warriors outscored opponents by a combined 23.6 points per 100 possessions. I don't care what the odds have said at various points, or even what they'll say to open the Finals, whether against Boston or Miami. And yet here they are, in their sixth Finals in the last eight years. The final threads of the Kevin Durant era were fraying.

The Golden State Warriors announced today that single game tickets for the team's first three home games of the NBA Finals will go on sale Friday, May 27, ...

In partnership with Chase Center Founding Partner Ticketmaster, the Warriors resale marketplace offers a safe and convenient way for fans to access all levels of tickets throughout the regular season and playoffs. The Dub Club is a comprehensive benefits program that replaced the Warriors Season Ticket Waitlist and offers all fans exclusive access and perks, including pre-sale opportunities for Warriors regular season and postseason games and select Chase Center events. 95.7 The Game 95.7 The Game 95.7 The Game The first presale event begins Friday, May 27, at 10 a.m., exclusively for the team’s season ticket members.

Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, Steve Kerr and the Golden State Warriors are headed back to the NBA Finals. Their 6th trip in the last 8 seasons.

From an injury-plagued season to a playoff ascension, the Warriors were able to close it out on their home court and prove their doubters wrong. The gentleman's sweep sent Golden State to its sixth Finals appearance in the last eight seasons, and social media was in awe of the Warriors' playoff resurgence after missing out on the postseason the last two years. With their close-out victory over the Dallas Mavericks in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals on Thursday, the Warriors didn't just have Chase Center in an uproar, but Twitter, too.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Klay Thompson shimmied his way to 32 points and the Golden State Warriors advanced to their sixth NBA Finals in the past eight seasons ...

Moody scored all of his seven points in the second quarter with his 3-pointer giving Golden State a 56-38 lead. After making just seven 3-pointers in the first four games of the series, Thompson had eight this game. Thompson's 3-pointer with just under 3 minutes left gave the Warriors a 15-point lead. Golden State is now 9-0 at the Chase Center this postseason, tying the 2017 team for the the most consecutive home wins in a single postseason in NBA history. They are the first team to make six finals appearances in an eight-year span since the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls had a pair of three-peats from 1991-93 and 1996-98. Doncic has typically been a playoff star.

They'll face either the Boston Celtics or Miami Heat. Boston leads the Eastern Conference finals 3-2 entering Game 6 on Friday.

The Warriors are looking to win their seventh championship. Spencer Dinwiddie provided 26 points off the bench. Klay Thompson led the game in scoring, recording 32 points, two rebounds and three assists.

The Dallas Mavericks big man had quite the entrance into Game 5 of the Western Conference finals against the Warriors on Thursday. The 7-foot-3 center saw the ...

While he hasn’t logged any playing time this series, Marjanović is one of the most lovable players in the league, and his Game 5 entrance shows why it’s impossible to dislike this man. The Dallas Mavericks big man had quite the entrance into Game 5 of the Western Conference finals against the Warriors on Thursday. The 7-foot-3 center saw the Warriors dancers warming up in the hallway while walking into Chase Center, and he did his best at copying their moves. He also earned some high praise from Hall of Famer Chris Mullin on "Warriors Live: Playoff Edition."

Draymond Green anchored the defense and even chipped in on the offensive end for a change. Stephen Curry capped off an MVP performance. The trio that led Golden State to so much success in recent years is whole again and and has the Warriors ...

Golden State have a shot at their fourth championship in less than a decade. It's easy to forget they were the worst team in the NBA just two seasons ago.

The Canadian has thrived in the postseason, too, drawing primary-defender duty on Doncic and providing perhaps the highlight of the playoffs so far when he dunked over the Slovenian superstar in Game 3 of the Conference finals. His selection as an All-Star back in February was perhaps more indicative of the dearth of elite forwards in the West with LA Clippers duo Kawhi Leonard and Paul George out, but Wiggins has fully acclimated to the Warriors’ defensive set-up and their constant-motion offense this year. But, looking back now, Curry’s absence from the final 12 games of the season might have been a blessing in disguise. History will remember this season as a continuation of the Golden State dynasty, especially if they go on to claim their fourth NBA title in less than a decade. It has been a remarkable feat of regeneration and rejuvenation. Hand surgery meant Steph Curry missed all but five games of the 2019-20 season, in which Golden State finished with the worst record in the NBA. They were only marginally better the season after, creeping into the inaugural postseason play-in tournament, where they were dumped out by a young Memphis Grizzlies team.

Vintage Klay, steady Steph and a young & athletic supporting cast propels Golden State past Dallas for its 6th Finals berth in the last 8 seasons.

Absolutely. The danger, though, is the belief that deep runs for Luka and the Mavericks will now be less of a surprise and more regular. And he did win a pair of MVPs and three titles in the past. A better big man is a must, and the Mavs must also decide on guard Jalen Brunson, a free agent this summer. And so it ends, five games into the Western Conference finals, perhaps eight more games than they were expected to last this postseason. Curry won the first Kobe Bryant Award at the All-Star Game in February, and now adds the Magic Johnson award for being voted MVP in the Western Conference finals. Wiggins is arguably a better scorer than Iguodala was during his peak-Warriors years, bringing more aggressive shooting and plenty of bounce off the dribble. Even Curry would admit he ripped the nets with better consistency and efficiency in the past. Poole developed the personality and mindset of a go-to player and therefore became one. If so, and he delivers, it’s hard to imagine the Warriors being denied another title. Will these fleeting stretches by Klay fly in the NBA Finals? Dare we say it could mean the difference between the Warriors sipping champagne and drowning in sorrows? It smacked of smugness, of forgetting the part about “dumb” luck (like Minnesota passing twice on drafting Steph Curry) and a pinch of arrogance. In that sense, Lacob was right; the franchise is stretching the championship lifespan of its core trio by making the right decisions.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Klay Thompson shimmied his way to 32 points and the Golden State Warriors advanced to their sixth NBA Finals in the past eight seasons ...

The Golden State Warriors have advanced to the NBA Finals for the sixth time in the past eight seasons, a feat only three previous teams have ever achieved.

"The skill and the athleticism and all that, but to also be just incredibly competitive and to want to win so badly. "It's hard to put into words really. 120-110 in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals in San Francisco on Thursday, the Warriors took a 4-1 series victory and now await the winner of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat.

NBA on TNT analyst Charles Barkley has made it very clear in recent weeks that he's not a fan of Warriors supporters or the city of San Francisco.

They will face either the Celtics or the Heat. Barkley got up from his seat like he was going to throw something back at them, but Barkley’s colleagues Ernie Johnson and Kenny Smith pleaded with Barkley to sit down. While Barkley’s feud with Warriors fans is amusing, it’s dangerous to normalize the idea that throwing things at analysts is O.K.

Golden State went from the worst record in the NBA to the Finals in two seasons.

To be able to do it on the biggest of stages, that's not easy to do." Last but not least comes ownership, led by Joe Lacob and Peter Guber, who have been willing to part with ungodly sums of U.S. dollars in order to keep the core trio together while adding around the fringes. What they've done with Poole -- to help turn him from a G Leaguer to one of the most dynamic offensive players in the league -- is the success story every organization yearns for. So much trust in each other," Curry said of his longtime partnership with Green and Thompson. "But we are all just so competitive at the end of the day. The synergy, brotherhood and competitiveness of that trio -- not to mention the talent -- has been the one constant from before the Finals runs until now. The next group deserving of praise is the front office, led by president of basketball operations and general manager Bob Myers, who was thrust into scramble mode when Kevin Durant decided to play for the Brooklyn Nets in the summer of 2019. "I think for me, this time around, you just have a deeper appreciation for it and understanding that it's not promised," Green said of reaching the NBA Finals for a sixth time. On Thursday he poured in eight more 3s and 32 points to send the Mavericks packing and advance to the Finals. Green suffered through injuries and malaise in the 15-win season, then dedicated himself to improving his body and was the hands-down favorite for Defensive Player of the Year this season before a scary back injury sidelined him for two months. The infamous "Game 6 Klay" erupted for 30 points and eight 3-pointers to close out Memphis in the second round. Despite Curry putting up the worst shooting season of his career, he's been phenomenal in the postseason -- particularly getting to the rim -- and earned the first-ever Western Conference finals MVP trophy as a reward. The Golden State Warriors rose to prominence by bucking convention, and it paid off with three titles and five NBA Finals trips in five seasons.

Steph Curry, Draymond Green, and Klay Thompson have formed the core for each Finals run, but injuries have sidelined or hampered them in crucial moments, and ...

The Warriors are expected to get back one of their key rotation pieces during the NBA Finals.

He told me he didn’t mean to hurt me. He came in person, and we talked like grown men. "After we closed out Game 6, I got word that he wanted to talk outside the locker room, and when I got there he apologized.

Not to who his team would face next as the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat battle it out in the Eastern Conference finals, but to seven years ago when the ...

Adversity hit along the way, Green missed two months to a back injury and Curry missed the final month of the season to a foot injury. When the Warriors selected Jordan Poole with the No. 28 pick in the 2019 draft, some saw the decision as a reach and Poole had to spend time in the G League in each of his first two seasons. Curry looked like he could be on his way to a third MVP award and Green had his eyes on a second Defensive Player of the Year award. Curry let the game come to him and dished nine assists and scored 15 points as he won the first Magic Johnson Western Conference finals MVP award. He was held to only 20 games during that 2019-20 season to forget and was the only Warrior to play all 82 games this season. He has been their primary scorer on some nights, spent this season fluctuating between the starting lineup and the bench and scored 16 points to go with six assists, six rebounds and two steals as the primary playmaker in reserve on Thursday night. The epitome of perseverance put up 10 points and 18 rebounds to help crown the Warriors as Western Conference champions, and snatched 22 rebounds to put away the Memphis Grizzlies in Game 6 of the second round. The realization is hard to even fathom. The Warriors already were without Thompson, Durant's time had come to an end and only four games into the 2019-20 season, the Warriors went from tough luck to a season from hell. James Wiseman was understandably pronounced as the future of this franchise at center, but the 6-foot-9 Looney has kept working and working, and it's all paid off. Steve Kerr tried his best to stay in the moment, but for a brief minute, his mind wandered. "I kind of had a flashback tonight," Steve Kerr said after the win.

Kent Bazemore joked on Twitter that he was "sick" after watching the Warriors advance to the NBA Finals, the team he left in order to join the Los Angeles ...

The 32-year-old started his NBA career with the Warriors in the 2012-13 season before being traded to none other than the Lakers midway through the 2013-14 season. Bazemore famously turned down more money from the Warriors in order to play with the Los Angeles Lakers' trio of LeBron James, Anthony Davis and Russell Westbrook, a star-studded team that ultimately failed to make the playoffs. After Golden State beat the Dallas Mavericks 120-110 in Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals to advance to their sixth NBA Finals in eight seasons, former Warriors forward Kent Bazemore took to Twitter with a joke about his previous team.

One year later, Steph Curry has fulfilled the message he made to the Warriors and the rest of the NBA.

Whether it was a warning to the his teammates or a note to the rest of the league, Curry couldn't have been more right. Kevon Looney has been through it all in his seven seasons with the Warriors, and Game 5 against the Mavs was the cherry on top to Mr. Reliable scoring 10 points and leading both sides with 18 rebounds. Green came into the season as motivated as ever, performed like the best defensive player in the world at the beginning of the season before missing two months to a back injury and then scored a season-high 17 points, along with nine assists and six rebounds in the final game of the West finals. Poole, who had to go to Orlando G League bubble earlier in the season, came off the bench to score 19 points and was a plus-9 in plus-minus. Curry secured the first ever Magic Johnson Western Conference finals MVP award after averaging 23.8 points, 7.4 assists and 6.6 rebounds per game against the Mavs while shooting 43.9 percent from the field and 42.4 percent on 3-pointers. Kerr told us relentlessly all offseason that Poole was working harder than anybody in the building, and it paid off to a breakout season that should result in a hefty paycheck this summer. In that final play-in tournament loss, a handful of players gave us a preview of what the Warriors could be this season. If we could get things aligned, get some new pieces and figure out how to start off the year right -- that's exactly what we did, 18-2 at one point and still have Klay coming when he was ready. There's also nobody that Curry trusts more to put the work in to prove everybody wrong. You see the fruits of that labor these last five weeks." We all should have listened a little closer to Curry at the podium a year ago. He scored 32 points and hit eight 3-pointers in Game 5 after coming into the series with only seven made threes through the first four games.

Steph Curry won the first-ever Western Conference Finals MVP award, where he was ecstatic about not only winning the award but also reaching the finals. "This ...

This isn't the ultimate goal for the Golden State Warriors, but it's still a very special moment for this team that deserves to be celebrated. We know this isn't the ultimate goal, but we know we gotta celebrate this because of all we went through the last two years." Be optimistic the last two years, and be back where belong, back in the Finals. This is special, our fanbase, to do it in this new building.

Steph Curry wore his faith on his wrist as he led the Golden State Warriors to the NBA Finals for the sixth time in eight seasons.

“It has to be something that you experience for yourself and a decision that you make for yourself,” Curry said. “My faith is tested on the court as much as it is in life,” Curry said on the show. “If I would have gone through that, there would have been no Wardell Stephen Curry II,” she told Norsworthy. “And, you know, God had a plan for that child. He said went to church as a kid and his parents were believers. Curry talked openly about his faith in an episode of “Stephen vs. “Yes and no,” Curry said postgame when asked if any of his past experiences felt similar to this season.

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green said the team's trip to their sixth NBA Finals in eight years "feels different" now that he, Stephen Curry and ...

Time to break it up. "Before we had our vets and we were the young guys. They missed the playoffs altogether last year before roaring back this season.

With a champions' pedigree and a formidable nucleus, the retooled Warriors are back in the Finals after two years in NBA purgatory.

That happened, but the Warriors continued to adjust to a rapidly changing league. As a player, Steve Kerr was a quality reserve for two dynasties and collected five championship rings — three with the Chicago Bulls and two with the Spurs. As a coach, he has taken the most pertinent lessons from all of his hoops experiences and won three more titles his own way. They have guided Poole from the G League to stardom, and he has transformed the Warriors’ offense by marrying Splash Brother-worthy shooting with the ability to break down the defense off the dribble. That attitude alone didn’t resuscitate the Warriors. It was a process that included two years out of the playoffs and a league-worst 15-50 record in 2019-20. Three long years later, the Warriors are back in the Finals. The ruptured tendons and shredded ligaments of 2019 didn’t turn out to be a gut-wrenching indicator it was time for Golden State’s greatness to expire. In Durant’s three seasons, the Warriors won two more championships. It may have been the first time Curry used his favorite phrase of the past few years — “championship DNA” — as a verbal banner to remind all of what’s possible. The Warriors play a distinct brand of beautiful basketball, harmonizing on offense and defense, blurring positional lines and amplifying all of the invaluable contributions players can make without hogging the ball. And they’re formidable, with their great 30-something core of Curry, Thompson and Green, an emerging star in Jordan Poole, a reclaimed star in Andrew Wiggins and a cast of veteran role players to go with a few young, high-ceiling talents. Impermanence is a reality in professional sports, and during this NBA period of heavy player movement, success is more fleeting than ever. He wore a cream-colored blazer atop all the chalky garb. Stephen Curry wore white to the supposed funeral.

Cowherd previously stated that Steph Curry would never appear in another NBA Finals as a member of Golden State.

And for Green, seeing Curry and Thompson back together at this stage after all of the adversity was everything the franchise needed. The Warriors proved that their reign among the NBA’s elite is not done yet. Cowherd’s thoughts on Golden State: “You gotta blow this team up, it’s over.”

Before the Warriors celebrated Thursday on advancing to the 2022 NBA Finals, Golden State endured two seasons of unexpected misfortune due to injuries.

A foreshadowing statement from Curry last season went viral after the Warriors punched their ticket to this year’s Finals by defeating the Mavericks, 120–110, in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals. In the Warriors’ series-clinching win, Curry was named the first Magic Johnson Western Conference finals MVP, averaging 23.8 points per game and converting 42% from three-point range in the series. Klay Thompson missed 941 days from the basketball court after suffering a catastrophic ACL injury in his left knee before eventually tearing his right Achilles tendon while scrimmaging in 2020.

Zach Harper breaks down the key player and more from Game 5 of the Western Conference finals.

The Celtics have been winning the war of attrition with their march through Milwaukee and possibly Miami. Both the Heat and Celtics are physical, but both teams are beat up, and the Warriors will hope to run them enough to exacerbate their exhaustion even more. The Heat look like they’re struggling to find themselves at the end of the Eastern Conference finals. When Thompson hit that 3-pointer, it pushed the lead to 15 points, and about a minute later, Steph Curry hit a 3-pointer in the corner to increase the lead. 3) Will they feel complacent and like they’ve arrived now that they’ve made the conference finals? They gave up just seven points off turnovers in their Game 5 win to close out the series. Seven of his 18 rebounds came on the offensive end of the floor.

Thompson tore his left ACL during a season-ending Game 6 loss in the 2019 NBA Finals against Toronto. Stephen Curry drives past Dallas Mavericks players during ...

After missing the playoffs in 2020 and ’21 in back-to back injury-plagued seasons, the Warriors are returning to a familiar stage. After Golden State missed the postseason in both seasons he was sidelined, Thompson finally returned to action in January. “I don’t like losing, especially not like this,” Doncic said. “It’s nice not having to bring him out yet.” “I played terrible. “It’s hard to put into words really,” Thompson said.

Warriors fans were in a frenzy as Klay Thompson led the way with a game-high 32 points, helping send the team to its sixth NBA Finals appearance in eight ...

And that's no disrespect to the San Francisco crowd but the Mavs fans are just insane and such a pleasure at all of our games. People talk about the crowd here [at Chase Center]. This was a closeout game and there wasn't nearly the energy of any of our playoff games. So I'm proud of the Mavs fans as well."

The Warriors punched their ticket to the 2022 NBA Finals following a Game 5 victory over the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference Finals.

Green has now been named to the All-Defensive Team in seven of the last eight seasons (First Team honors four times and Second Team three times. The Warriors triumphed in a 120-110 victory over the Mavericks to take the Western Conference Finals series, 4-1. Also this week, Curry was named to the 2021-22 All-NBA Second Team, marking a franchise-record eighth All-NBA Team honor for the guard (First Team four times, Second Team three times and Third Team once).