Tim Kawakami

1 week ago | sfstandard.com | Tim Kawakami

Have a question about the 49ers, the Warriors, the Giants or another Bay Area sports topic? Email Tim Kawakami at [email protected] for a chance to be featured in next week’s mailbag. Can a team with a coach going into his ninth season and several veterans who recently landed huge new deals truly get spiritually refreshed and competitively reborn over just one offseason?

2 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Tim Kawakami

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. Steve Kerr would love for Jonathan Kuminga to turn into an updated version of Shawn Marion or a close copy of Aaron Gordon and ease right in as a consummate complementary piece next to Stephen Curry, Jimmy Butler, and Draymond Green. I suspect many of Kuminga’s current Warriors teammates would love that, too.

2 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Tim Kawakami

Jed York is doubling, tripling, quadrupling, and $404-million-ing down on Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch heading into the duo’s ninth season with the 49ers — which is maybe not something you would’ve expected after last season’s 6-11 collapse. It was probably necessary, though, given the lifespan of this administration and the architecture of this top-heavy roster. It was time to either reaffirm vows or slowly start to walk away from one another.

3 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Tim Kawakami

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. Brock Purdy did not play hardball, the 49ers returned the favor, and nobody had to go running to social media, skip practice, or make multiple passive-aggressive trade threats. How boring. How undramatic. How unlike the 49ers’ big and painful negotiations of the last few years. How logical. How timely.

3 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Tim Kawakami

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. Let’s toss away all other presumptions and acknowledge that Stephen Curry is the most powerful person in the Warriors’ franchise — not because he demands it but because there’s simply nobody else who should be.