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Thunder can go from chasing history to making history

Edit The Oklahoman 19 May 2016
The Warriors won an NBA-record 73 games. The Spurs won an NBA-record 40 home games ... Never has a team come close to eliminating two teams in the playoffs with a combined 140 regular-season victories ... In NBA history, only 22 teams have produced a winning percentage better than .780. Sixteen of those 22 went on to win the NBA title ... The 1950 playoff format was a little kooky ... One of the more impressive playoff runs in league history....

Steph Curry & Golden State Warriors Are Back On Point Against OKC Thunder

Edit Inquisitr 19 May 2016
However, Golden State returned to true form during Game 2 in the Western Conference Finals of the 2016 NBA Playoffs, evening the series after a dominating 118-91 win ... RELATED REPORTS BY THE INQUISITR LeBron James Gives Up McDonald’s To Be The New Face Of Blaze Pizza NBA Playoffs ... The Cavs set a new franchise record for largest margin of victory in the NBA Playoffs (31 points) with a final score of 115-84 ... NBA Playoffs....

Game 2, NBA Western Conference Final, Warriors Need Comeback

Edit Inquisitr 19 May 2016
Despite winning an NBA record 73 regular season games, then breezing through the first two rounds of the playoffs with five-game series wins over both the Houston Rockets and Portland Trail Blazers, the Warriors face a nearly impossible situation if they fall in Game Two at home. In NBA playoff history, teams that have dropped the first two games of a seven-game series at home have won just three of those series — and lost 20....

Thunder vs. Warriors, Game 2, LIVE SCORE UPDATES (5/18/16)

Edit NJ dot com 19 May 2016
Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors try to even their NBA Western Conference Finals series vs ... NBA MVP Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors try to even their NBA Western Conference Finals vs ... NBA Mock Draft ... On Monday night, they did it with a fourth-quarter comeback against the defending NBA champion Warriors, who had won their first six playoff games at Oracle Arena....

Curry dazzles again, Warriors even series with Thunder 1-1

Edit Atlanta Journal 19 May 2016
NBA Finals MVP Andre Iguodala brought some timely pizazz off the bench ... It was the longest such run for the Warriors since Tim Hardaway did so in 12 consecutive playoff games in 1991 and '92.Oklahoma City Thunder's Russell Westbrook (0) shoots past Golden State Warriors' Draymond Green (23) during the first half in Game 2 of the NBA basketball Western Conference finals Wednesday, May 18, 2016, in Oakland, Calif....

Thunder’s Steven Adams shows off maturation in playoffs

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 19 May 2016
After recording only six double-doubles in 80 regular-season games, Adams notched six in his first 12 playoff games ... Adams’ tenacious ways became a national story line when, as an Oklahoma City rookie in the 2014 playoffs, he tangled up with Memphis’ Zach Randolph....

LeBron is Akron’s Billion Dollar Man; dollar figure confirmed in Nike deal

Edit Ohio 19 May 2016
Aside from his signature dunks on the court and tearing through the NBA playoffs leading the Cavs to nine consecutive wins, James is also working on projects outside of the arena including television projects and dabbling in movies such as Trainwreck and an anticipated redo of the cult classic Space Jam movie....

AP Source: Knicks working to hire Jeff Hornacek as coach

Edit Atlanta Journal 19 May 2016
He led the Suns to a surprising 48-34 record in his first season, when they almost made the playoffs with a team that was expected to be one of the worst in the league, but the team was in one of the worst stretches in its history when he was dismissed ... The Knicks finished 32-50 last season, their third straight season out of the playoffs....

Knicks to hire Jeff Hornacek as head coach

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 19 May 2016
He led the Suns to a surprising 48-34 record in his first season, when they almost made the playoffs with a team that was expected to be one of the worst in the league, but the team was in one of the worst stretches in its history when he was dismissed ... The Knicks finished 32-50 last season, their third straight season out of the playoffs....

No time for easing up

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 19 May 2016
Oklahoma City coach Billy Donovan doesn’t want his team easing up despite having done what every road team has to do in the NBA playoff if it hopes to advance. win on the other team’s court. Monday’s 108-102 victory was not just the first of the year for the Thunder in four meetings with the Warriors, but marked the first Game 1 playoff loss for the Warriors since the second round in 2013 ... ....

Karl-Anthony Towns, Andrew Wiggins 'need to get out of Minnesota'

Edit Star Tribune 19 May 2016
Former NBA player John Salley, filling in for Mike Golic on ESPN’s “Mike and Mike” program this morning, raised some eyebrows and ruffled some local feathers with comments about the last two No ... The five best teams in the NBA this season — four of which are the only ones left standing in the playoffs — were Golden State, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Cleveland and Toronto....

Nick Collison, “Mr. Thunder,” Reflects on Being Oklahoma City’s Longtime Backbone (NBPA - National Basketball Players Association)

Edit Public Technologies 19 May 2016
SAN FRANCISCO - Thunder veteran forward Nick Collison has only had to move once in his NBA career. from Seattle to Oklahoma City when the team officially relocated in 2008 ... 'Since our arrival in 2008, Nick has helped us establish the standards on and off the floor that we work by on a day-to-day basis ... Do you see any similarities between that team's makeup with what you've forged together this playoffs?....

Golfer Phil Mickelson named in insider trading complaint

Edit Boston Herald 19 May 2016
WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission has sued professional golfer Phil Mickelson, saying he profited from an insider trading scheme conducted by a former corporate director and a professional gambler ... from former Dean Foods director Thomas Davis between 2008 and 2012 ... He occasionally gets a group of players and caddies together for dinner and small wagering during the NBA and NHL playoffs, and prominent fights ... ....
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