Don’t discount what healthy Howard can do for Lakers
By TED SILLANPAA Twitter @tedsillanpa ted.sillanpaa@pressdemocrat.com I’m not one of those who felt out of love with Dwight Howard the NBA superstar. If I had the second selection in a draft of every...
View ArticleGame 2 win in San Antonio makes Warriors title contender
By TED SILLANPAA The Golden State Warriors are no longer that fun, little team that can’t really win in the NBA playoffs. Oh, media types will still mock the notion that they could actually reach the...
View ArticleRoaring fans in home arena only helps if Warriors outplay Spurs
By TED SILLANPAA Much has been understandably made of the Warriors’ crazed, wild, loud home crowd in the Oakland Coliseum Arena. Oddly, though, the capacity crowd that can blow the top of the joint was...
View ArticleWarriors turned ball over, shot poorly … still won Game 4 to prove they can...
By TED SILLANPAA Magic Johnson spent ABC’s halftime show reading the Warriors postseason obituary. It was hard to imagine Golden State, with Stephen Curry hobbled and foul troubles haunting the bigs,...
View ArticleEither 3-pointers fall or Warriors will go down on Thursday
By TED SILLANPAA Mark Jackson’s inspired pep talks won’t save the Warriors. The club won’t suddenly develop a low-post offense that allows them to really grind it out in the halfcourt to beat the Spurs...
View ArticleWarriors … lingering questions while pondering the future …
By TED SILLANPAA The Warriors did everything so right in their NBA playoff run … until about midway through the third quarter of decisive Game 6 against the Spurs in Oakland. It was then that it became...
View ArticleGame-by-game analysis spoils stirring NBA Finals
By TED SILLANPAA The problem with the modern sports media has never been as apparent as during the exciting NBA Finals between the Miami Heat and the underdog San Antonio Spurs. There have been two...
View ArticleAnalysts were wrong … wrong … wrong … but, they’re still sure Heat will win...
By TED SILLANPAA San Antonio Spurs’ veteran Manu Ginobili is done. Finished. He’ll never again be as effective as he has been through a Hall of Fame career. That’s what everybody with a microphone or a...
View ArticleWarriors need to focus solely on making NBA playoffs, not where they’re seeded
By TED SILLANPAA Look, the Golden State Warriors are a team that lives and dies by the perimeter jump shot. Stephen Curry is prone to the untimely turnover, which typically comes because he has the...
View ArticleWarriors fans: Spurs show 3 stars no sure thing however . . .
By TED SILLANPAA Golden State Warriors fans should note that it turns out having three big-time stars on one roster doesn’t assure that the path to an NBA championship will be smooth. Bay Area hoop...
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