Danny Emman

1 day ago | sfstandard.com | Danny Emman

Want the latest Bay Area sports news delivered to your inbox? Sign up here to receive regular email blasts, plus “The Dime,” our twice-weekly sports newsletter. Like in Game 3, the Warriors were hanging tough. They’d already proven that this isn’t the type of team to roll over despite missing Steph Curry. They led at halftime and had Jonathan Kuminga breaking the paint at will for a second game in a row. But then Anthony Edwards and the Timberwolves ended the game with a third-quarter explosion.

3 days ago | sfstandard.com | Danny Emman

Want the latest Bay Area sports news delivered to your inbox? Sign up here to receive regular email blasts, plus “The Dime,” our twice-weekly sports newsletter. Late in the first quarter of Game 3, Jonathan Kuminga put together quite possibly the best 10-second sequence of his career in quite possibly the best game of his NBA life. At the rim, he rotated over to block a Jaden McDaniels dunk attempt.

5 days ago | sfstandard.com | Danny Emman

Want the latest Bay Area sports news delivered to your inbox? Sign up here to receive regular email blasts, plus “The Dime,” our twice-weekly sports newsletter. MINNEAPOLIS — Steve Kerr knew Game 2 would be ripe for experimentation. With Steph Curry sidelined through at least Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals with a Grade 1 hamstring strain, Kerr needed to search for new lineup combinations and strategies that could work. Curry’s absence has a trickle-down effect on the rest of the roster.

6 days ago | sfstandard.com | Danny Emman

MINNEAPOLIS — During the Warriors’ 117-93 Game 2 loss to the Timberwolves, star forward Draymond Green picked up his fifth technical foul in nine playoff games so far. After the game, Green issued a short statement to reporters in the visitor’s locker room. “I’m not an angry Black man,” Green said. “I’m a very successful, educated Black man with a great family. And I’m great at basketball, I’m great at what I do. The agenda to try to keep making me look like an angry Black man is crazy.

6 days ago | sfstandard.com | Danny Emman

Want the latest Bay Area sports news delivered to your inbox? Sign up here to receive regular email blasts, plus “The Dime,” our twice-weekly sports newsletter. MINNEAPOLIS — Steph Curry rebounded misses and dished passes into Buddy Hield’s shooter’s pocket, danced, and sporadically cracked up with Hield. Just two days after straining his left hamstring in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals, Curry was on his feet and with his team at the Warriors’ morning shootaround ahead of Game 2.