NBA Thursday: Warriors storm back to beat Clippers, stay unbeaten

No other team goes down by 23 points and somewhere in the back of the mind you’re still thinking they’re going to win -- nobody but the Warriors. There’s an aura of inevitability with them. Golden State doesn’t need to play well for four quarters to beat you. They sometimes don’t need to play well for three. On Thursday, you could realistically argue they played well for a quarter and a half -- the final quarter and a half -- and won anyway. Against a team who nearly made the Western Conference Finals last year.

The Warriors will lose a game eventually. They’ll lose two, three, probably even four. But how many games will this team realistically lose in an 82-game season barring injuries? Five? Seven? Nine? They only lost 15 last year and that number seems way too high for this crew, riding off the fumes of what they saw as summer disrespect and gunning for dynasty status.

After burying a big three, he pulled out the MJ shrug (via WarriorsWorld):

That’s just some savvy, veteran trolling from Andre Iguodala, a guy who’s been around the NBA block a few times. It’s still too early to know where this year’s Warriors squad will rank among other great NBA teams, but as long as they’ve got Andre Iguodala around to rub it in, they’ll be in a good place.

The Clippers got off to a red hot start against the Warriors Thursday night, but could this play be the turning point for Golden State?

Muscle memory told Chris Paul it was time to flop, and his weird defensive effort resulted in Barnes just tossing one up over his head. It worked. It was weird. It was amazing. It was perfect.

Giannis Antetokounmpo is nearly seven feet tall, but you wouldn’t know it from the way he moves.

More than anything, I’m just very jealous. I’m six feet tall and it takes me three days to spin in a full circle, and I usually get hurt.

C’mon, man.