Shayna Rubin
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Joined February 2012
Draymond on his post-game moment with Jokic: "I told him thank you for making me better. It's an honor and a pleasure to play someone so skilled. Usually when you have guys that talented and skilled they're soft. And he's far, far from soft.".
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Andrew Wiggins on a possible extension to stay in GSW: “I would love to stay here. Being here is top notch…the way they treat their players, we’re all a big family. A lot of places might say that, but here they show that through their actions.”.
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Andrew Wiggins on proving the doubters wrong: “It put fire in my eyes. I just wanted to prove everyone wrong. Now I’m a world champion. Everyone’s going to have something to say regardless. But they have to say I’m a world champion too.”.
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Marcus Semien gets it
From @annkillion: The Oakland A’s finale at the Coliseum on Thursday was a farewell to a place that stood apart in a sport that increasingly grasps for the corporate dollar and caters to the high-end fan.
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Klay Thompson, asked about Draymond Green’s mini doc: “The only film I’ve seen is Smile. It wasn’t that scary. It was pretty good. I jumped. It was the first movie I’ve seen in a theater in a while. Very thankful for that.”.
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Gary Payton II on Steph Curry’s defense: “He’s a two way player”.
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Draymond Green frustrated, uncharacteristically short post game. On what went wrong in second quarter: “The game stopped. They go to the free throw line every time.”.
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Moses Moody stayed late to get some shots up after the game. At 12:45 a.m.
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Steph Curry on the Ja/Poole play: "You know that term hot stove contact? That's what it felt like. Keep it moving.".
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Can someone explain to me in one sentence why David Ortiz is in the HOF and not Barry Bonds?.
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Chris Paul on the shooting struggles tonight: “I’m not worried about the shooting. I was on a team that missed 27 straight 3s. I don’t think that’s going to be the case here, knock on wood.”.
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Jaren Jackson Jr on the play Grizz say hurt Morant's knee: "It's unfortunate, you never want to see that type of stuff. But no one's out here dirty. No one's out here like that. It's just unfortunate.". "You know the code. We've been talking about the code all series.".
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Steph Curry organized a players-only mini camp in LA that the whole team, except Dario Saric (FIBA tourney) participated in - Brandin Podziemski and Trayce Jackson-Davis say it helped them get aquatinted with everyone.
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That’s the fourth time this season the Warriors have lost a game in which they led by at least 18 points.
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Jama Mahlalela says Wiseman got an ovation in the locker room after the game. “They know what he went through.”.
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Here’s PJ, the young fan who cried after missing out on seeing Steph on Monday in Denver. She got to meet him today.
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Asked Khris Davis who here is going to have a breakout year: “Me. going to hit .247 again.”.
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The Giants put this sign up with the quasi-homeless A’s (and their fans) in town.
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Draymond Green: "I've always said all along, no one has proven they can beat us yet when we're whole. That's still the case.".
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This ballpark is an important part of baseball history and it’s sad it wasn’t treated as such. Still one of a kind.
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Big board just showed Billy Joe Armstrong, chanting “sell the team”.
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Steph Curry said the locker room brotherhood and trying to celebrate Dejan Milojevic’s legacy is helping the team mourn: “It’d have been really hard to play those first few days, to be completely honest.”. He was wearing a Brate shirt, too.
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Home run on an 0-2 pitch for Bryce Eldridge. His second AB of spring. The homer was 110.4 mph off the bat and apparently went 450 feet.
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COLISEUM -- Brutal scene. Nachos thrown on the field. The fans are booing.
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Draymond Green on the video leaking: “If I’m being honest it’s 100% bullshit.” He says he watched it 15 times, “it looks even worse than I thought it was. It’s pathetic.”.
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Kerr says Will Ferrell emailed him a while back about the visit. Ferrell is a big Klay Thompson fan, knows he dresses up as Jackie Moon. Ferrell spoke before the game, too, and made everyone laugh. "Felt like a good time to do it," Kerr said.
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Steve Kerr says Chris Paul accepting role off the bench is “massive” and compares to Andre Iguodala in 2014:. “When I talked to him this morning about it, he just nodded his head and said, Let's go get ‘em. Like, not even a big deal.”.
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Draymond Green on Steph Curry's performance: "He came out and showed why he's one of the best players to ever play this game. Why this organization has been able to ride him to so much success. Absolutely incredible.".
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“It’s not like I’m on the mound doing equations with the pitchers.”. How astrophysicist Samantha Schultz is helping the Oakland A’s fine-tune their pitches.
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Warriors chanting “Fuck you Draymond” in the locker room during the champagne party.
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Jung Hoo Lee on his season-ending surgery: “Mentally I could say that a month and a half playing here in the Major Leagues was the happiest moment in my baseball career. And I'll never forget the time here that I have spent this season.”.
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James Wiseman, who could return against Memphis, said he's picking up on how to play his role on this team: "I really don't need to score. I can, of course, but I really don't need to. So just focusing on small things on defense.".
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Klay Thompson: “Tonight I got so many great looks. That’s why it hurts.”.
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A great representation of the series. Splash Brother coming up clutch and CP flopping like a psycho.
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Jonathan Kuminga said he's asked coaches to hold him accountable on rebounding in practice, and the team (esp. Kenny Atkinson) has been on him. "If I don't do it right, they stop practice. It's been a consistent thing every day. I'm not great at it, but I'm working on it.".
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Draymond Green on the league holding him to a special standard for punishment: “To continue saying, ‘oh, what he did in the past. ’ I paid for those. I got suspended for Game 5 of the Finals. So you can’t keep suspending me for those actions.”.
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Matt Chapman said he’s excited to reunite with Bob Melvin to tend to some “unfinished business.”. “We had something really special building with the A's and unfortunately that got kind of ripped out of our hands and broken up. So to come back here and have an opportunity with an.
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Justin Verlander celebrated his 42nd birthday with a laser tag party with approx. 20 of his new teammates yesterday. Robbie Ray, Matt Chapman and Logan Webb drafted the competing laser tag teams.
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Blake Snell says he would have pitched today if it were against a team vying for playoffs, for the “integrity of the game”: . “if I have a chance to ruin someone’s playoff hopes, I’d love to do that.“.
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Draymond Green referenced the Klay Thompson quote from The Ringer about embracing a lesser role as he gets older: .“You see young guys taking these next steps, JK, BP. It’s a lot of growth and you got to be ok with that growth. I think Klay is growing into that…to see him.
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No Klay Thompson in today’s starting 5. It’ll be the first game he comes off the bench since his rookie year. Steph Curry.Brandin Podziemski.Andrew Wiggins.Jonathan Kuminga.Draymond Green.
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Laureano was asked if he enjoyed his home run off Sampson: “To be honest I don’t enjoy anything, it just kind of happens and that’s it.”.
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Steph Curry, out with a sprained foot, will be re-evaluated again after the regular season concludes, according league sources.
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Jonathan Kuminga on if Kawhi Leonard has given him any advice: “he doesn’t really talk.”.
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Klay Thompson on Kuminga becoming part of the rotation: "He's easy to find around the rim and he's a great cutter and has such great size on the defensive end that as long as his effort is there he's going to contribute.".
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Steve Kerr speaks on Dejan Milojevic’s passing. He’s wearing a shirt that says ‘brate’ which is Serbian for ‘brother’
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Steve Kerr on Wiseman taking the heat: "He knows how to overcome adversity. We have to help him because modern life is unforgiving and people don't take into account organic growth. Everyone wants results right now. It's not going to be that way.".
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Klay Thompson told reporters in Utah that Kerr talked with him this morning about coming off the bench: “More importantly I realized I’m gonna play a lot of minutes. So you have to let the ego when you think about coming off the bench. I thought of Manu Ginobili, that guy has.
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Hah. Steph Curry gets a tech in solidarity with Draymond Green.
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Steph Curry, at the A's game for his Eat. Learn. Play. foundation, on the broadcast: "If I'm still hoopin' we always got another chance at a championship.".
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So excited to announce I’ll be joining the @sfchronicle as the SF Giants beat reporter! It’s a childhood dream to cover this team for the paper I grew up reading. Even more thrilled to work with @susanslusser and @JohnSheaHey!
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Chris Bassitt says all A's have done on the road is play video games in their rooms, go to the field and play, then go home and play more video games.
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Lots of Mexican flags in the crowd. Juan Toscano-Anderson acknowledged all of them. Also got into the crowd a ton.
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Wiseman said the biggest thing he’d like to work on is his timing, especially on screens. On getting more rebounds, Wiseman said the ball “really wasn’t coming my way that much.” He finished with 2.
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Klay Thompson on his shot selection late: "That one with five seconds on the shot clock, wish I could have that back, gotten a better look. That one on the left wing I feel like I rushed it. I shoulda taken my time. Even with that, we fought back with a chance to win.".
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Steve Kerr says he went to Ron Adams for advice on how to emotionally move on after the trauma. He told Steve to ask himself what Deki would say: . “I literally could picture Deki smiling and laughing and saying ‘You motherfuckers need to go and win.’”.
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I've heard from multiple sources that the A's are signing former Arizona Diamondbacks 3B Jake Lamb.
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Bob Melvin didn’t take anything to remember the Coliseum by, just “one last look.” . Matt Chapman will get third base from today’s game to take home.
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Third home run for Willy Adames in two days. Two today. Dude is locked in.
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Last week, Barry Bonds stopped by Tyler Fitzgerald's locker and asked him to meet him behind the batting cage. A brief lesson with Bonds helped Fitzgerald break some bad habits. It paid off Monday:.
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Bob Melvin and former A’s teammate Matt Chapman catch up with Cleveland manager Stephen Vogt.
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Matt Chapman is in the Giants facility in Scottsdale. Just walked by the clubhouse.
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Kevon Looney on his favorite Deki memory: . “His English wasn't always the best so he didn't know how to sugarcoat anything. Anytime I wasn't being aggressive, I wasn't rebounding or boxing out — it’s a cuss word, but he said “Don’t be soft.” But he would say the explicit word.
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Max Muncy on shedding the Max Muncy (LA) comparison: “I feel worse for him because he’s at the All-Star game getting questions about me.”
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Tweets like these are a good reminder that MLB (the commissioner, owners) are clearly happy to sit and watch another owner fail upward. Not good for the game but get those Tweets off.
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Draymond Green’s response to Nurkic’s comments that Green didn’t learn anything from his suspension: “I thought I was pretty great tonight. So yeah, he can keep riding the same horse that he rode in on and he can ride his ass on out here on the same horse.”.
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Fans in Indiana chanting “TJD” for Indiana University star Trayce Jackson-Davis
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A trust fund kid suffers the consequences of his own actions and throws a tantrum at the peoples’ expense.
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Sean Murphy wins his first Gold Glove. He’s the first A’s catcher to win the award.
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Yu Darvish gifted Kai-Wei Teng a glove after the rookie’s debut. Teng said he idolized Darvish growing up and meeting him was the “most meaningful moment” in his life.
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Matt Chapman on his communication with Adames on this play: “I told him I’m going to run like a five year old kid after every single ball and try to take it so we'll get used to playing with each other.”.
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It’s Jung Hoo Lee bobblehead day, so the man himself is signing a few.
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The A’s have won 11 straight. The last MLB team to win more than 10 in a row? The A’s from May 16-27 in 2019.
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Steve Kerr said there’s a sense of relief that Steph’s injury wasn’t worse. They expect him back for the playoffs and possible a few games before that. “We’ll see how it all goes but the mood of the team is really strong.”.
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Paschall on Oct. 18: 'As a rookie out there, setting screens for Steph Curry is kind of a dream come true.'. Paschall on Nov. 4: 36 points, 13 rebounds, 4 3-pointers. A birthday win.
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The more I watch this Rays team play exceptional defense against the Astros the more I think about if/how Matt Chapman's glove alone could have changed the course of the A's postseason.
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Another early Steph Curry warmup. This time with Reggie Miller and his son, in a Curry jersey, watching.
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Lost NorCal to them but beat them in spring training 👍.
Go A's! Always nice to beat the @SFGiants 😎😎.
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