This is such an amazing moment between Steph and Ayesha Curry
It’s been a long road for the Golden State Warriors. They had the worst record in the NBA two seasons ago. They were knocked out of the NBA Play-In tournament last season.
But now, they’re champions. Again. Specifically, Stephen Curry. He’s an NBA champion again — for the 4th time this time. And, this time, he finally won that elusive Finals MVP trophy.
And he was absolutely thrilled about it all. He broke down in tears this time after winning the championship. The emotion was everywhere for him.
Immediately after the game when he finished his interview, he went straight to his wife, Ayesha, and the two shared an incredible moment with one another.
Fake Klay will never walk into Chase Center again.
YouTuber Dawson Gurley, also known as fake Klay Thompson, has been tricking people for years now.
Somehow, he genuinely has gotten fans to believe he’s the real Klay instead of the great value version. He got them in 2017. Then he got them again in 2018. This dude is an absolute menace.
There are some pretty key differences between the two here, though. Sure, fake Klay is good at basketball. But Klay Thompson is, well, obviously an NBA player. Fake Klay is also not 6’7 which, clearly, the real Klay is.
So you’d think, from the outside looking in, it’d be pretty easy to spot the difference between fake Klay and real Klay.
But…apparently, the Warriors’ security team can’t? Sheesh.
Gurley managed to walk into the Chase Center and walk through five (!!!!) layers of the team’s security staff with no hassle whatsoever. He made his way to the actual court and got up shots for 10 whole minutes before someone actually said something.
Yes, this really happened. He caught it all on camera.
Here’s the video of fake Klay Thompson sneaking into game 5 of the NBA Finals 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/8T6ERe4Zhm
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“We could just go into the locker room if we wanted to,” Dawson said to the camera in clear disbelief after sneaking in. And, yeah. Yeah, he totally could’ve. Which is pretty wild to think about.
That is hilarious but, also, like….yo? Really? He got through that easily, huh? The team’s security even thought it was funny.
The warriors banned this guy & security was totally cool with him bruh smh!!!
fHonestly, that feels a bit harsh? But, on the other hand, at least they didn’t call the police and get him arrested for trespassing because they absolutely could’ve.
This was just wild. NBA fans got quite the laugh out of this.
The Boston Celtics are absolutely incredible as a unit. Their defense is unlike anything we’ve ever seen in the NBA.
They’ve got a rotation of 8 excellent defenders just waiting to pounce on the opposition. That’s why they’re just two wins away from an NBA championship and, if not for Steph Curry, they’d be even closer.
But they’ve got one Achilles Heel and it’s a pretty big one. It’s their clutch time offense.
The Celtics have been awful in the clutch all year. Now, granted, they haven’t had too many crunch time scenarios where the game is within 5 points with 5 minutes or less because they’ve spent a lot of time blowing teams out this year.
But when they have had crunch time minutes? It’s generally been awful. And we’ve seen that in these playoffs and these NBA Finals. They’ve shot so bad that it even makes Draymond Green look good and that dude has no offense right now.
Let’s break it down a bit. So far, they are a whopping -101.6 in 5 total minutes of crunch time play against the Warriors. That number is bad. Really bad. Even when you consider the fact that it’s such a small number, it still shouldn’t be that jarring.
Aside from about half a minute of crunchtime play in Game 1 before the Celtics blew the doors off the Warriors, Game 4 has been the biggest stretch of clutch minutes in this series.
In that stretch, Boston shot 0-6 from the field. For the series, they’re just 1-8 with that one make being an Al Horford 3-pointer from Game 1. Sounds like a Draymond Green shooting night, doesn’t it?
Now, look. I know the sample is small and I know it’s only two games we’re talking about here in one series. But it’s a much bigger thing than that for Boston.
Don’t believe me? Here’s The Athletic’s Mo Dakhil, a former video coordinator for the Clippers, with some sobering numbers for you stretching back to Game 7 in Miami.
One of my concerns about Boston has been their clutch offense, combining their game 7 numbers against Miami and last night's final minutes against Golden State, Boston is 1-13 from the field. The one make was the Horford three. That is BRUTAL! ONE MADE FIELD GOAL, WOW!
That means in the last 3 crunch-time situations, the Celtics are 1-13 from the field. They’re not making anything.
So far in these playoffs, only the Brooklyn Nets have been worse than the Celtics in crunch time. The C’s are currently shooting 26.8% from the field in the clutch. The Nets are below them at 16.7% — but that was only through 3 games with clutch minutes. The Celtics have played 11.
Really, no matter what way you cut this, this is bad for Boston. They’ve had major problems when they’ve found themselves in clutch scenarios. And that’s already come back to bite them in these Finals.
Only time will tell if it costs them the series. Luckily, they don’t play too many minutes in crunch time because they’re actually that good.
Before this happens again, though, they need to clean this up.
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But, man. With the way he’s playing right now? It’s even got her confused about where her son is and what he’s doing.
It’s no secret that Draymond Green is giving us one of the worst performances of his career in these NBA Finals. He was a bit better in crunch time defensively in Game 4, but he’s still a huge liability on offense. And fans have been roasting him for it. “Fans” now include his mom, too, who said she doesn’t even recognize her own son right now.
She really said that. Do you know how bad you have to be for your own mom to go in on you like this? Look at this.
Please ppl stop asking me what’s wrong with Dray… I DONT KNOW! Maybe this is a CLONE! Lmbo WHERE IS THE Draymond that helped get us here!! Hmmmm I have never seen this either!
Ahead of a pivotal Game 4, a new Finals MVP favorite has surged up the leaderboard
Just when it looked like Steph Curry was finally on the cusp of his first NBA Finals MVP award, along came Game 3 in Boston and a blowout that Warriors star in more ways than one.
Forget Finals MVP, that’s bad news overall for the Warriors if they hope to win another title. In the meantime, here’s who has taken over the top spot in our rankings as the series gets closer to crowning a champion.
And they’re going to keep coming, too. Green jumped on his podcast Thursday morning to let us know that we need to stop complaining about his podcast because he’s going to keep podcasting no matter what happens.
Yup. Seriously.
“Y’all gone get this podcast. Win, lose, draw. Hoisting the trophy, putting my ring on my finger, you name it.”
“You gonna get this podcast. It baffles me. It’s so funny when I hear people say ‘oh, you shouldn’t be podcasting.’ So what should I be doing when I get to my room? Should I go to sleep? Should I watch the film of the game, because I’m going to do that anyway. So what should I be doing when I get to my room? I want to know the real answer from people that say Draymond shouldn’t be podcasting.”
Pretty clear, folks. We gon get that podcast. It’s that simple. People are still up in arms about it, though.
During Game 1 on Thursday night, Steph Curry and Klay Thompson — two of the biggest reasons Golden State has been such a prominent mainstay amongst the NBA elite for years — combined for one of the coolest plays you’ll see in such a big moment.
Curry found Thompson in the corner with the Warriors driving in transition late in the first quarter. And rather than watch the shot attempt from one of the league’s greatest three-point shooters ever, he simply looked away, knowing Thompson drilled it:
Oh, man. How do you beat a duo that is that locked in? The “Splash Bros” are back, and the Celtics better watch out through the rest of this series.
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With the Golden State Warriors, all everyone talks about is Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green.
And rightfully so. Those dudes are multiple-time NBA champions. That’s the core that has gotten things done over and over and over again for the Warriors when they’ve needed it to.
But the new guard on the team deserves to be talked about, too. I mean that quite literally — Jordan Poole deserves your attention and, since you’re reading this, he’s obviously got it to some extent.
Want to know more about the Warriors’ rising star? Here are five fun facts you probably didn’t know just yet:
The dude can guard the opposing team’s best player, switch out onto a big, hold his own in the paint and grab a rebound and push the break. He’s also pretty good at hitting open jumpers as well.
That totally makes sense because, of course, he’s Gary Payton’s son.
There is a common mistake people make when it comes to that, though. Folks will call him Gary Payton Jr. and not Gary Payton II. There’s a distinct difference there because, well, those are two different people.
