Warriors tonight: 10 Things about the Nets matchup

LA Clippers vs Golden State Warriors - Full Game Highlights | February 23, 2017 | 2016-17 NBA Season
1. THE BASICS

Tipoff: 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Oracle Arena. TV: CSN Bay Area. Radio: KGMZ 95.7 The Game in Oakland and San Francisco, KRTY 95.3 in San Jose, KION 1460 and 101.1 in Salinas and Monterey.

2. THE RECORDS

Warriors: 48-9, No. 1 in the Western Conference by four games over San Antonio.Nets: 9-48, worst record in the NBA.

3. WHAT HAVE THEY DONE LATELY?

Warriors: Completed a season sweep of the Los Angeles Clippers with a 123-113 come-from-behind victory on Thursday at Oracle Arena. Los Angeles led by 16 points in the second quarter and 61-49 at halftime. But the Warriors charged back in the third quarter, outscoring the Clippers 50-26. the warriors shot 17 of 23 (73.9 percent) from the field and 9 of 15 (60.0 percent) on 3-pointers in the quarter. Stephen Curry scored 20 of his 35 points in the period, with 17 coming in the final 3:37. And this all came after Curry missed a technical free throw at the very beginning of the half. Kevin Durant had 15 of his 25 points in the period. Golden State went on to lead by as many as 23 points in the fourth quarter. The victory was the Warriors 10th in row overall against the demoralized Clippers and 11th straight at Oracle Arena.Nets: Lost at Denver 129-109 on Friday night. Brooklyn has lost 15 in a row and has not won a game since defeating New Orleans 143-114 on the road on Jan. 20. Before that, the Nets had lost 11 straight. They have lost a mind-boggling 31 times in their past 33 games.

4. PREVIOUS MEETING

On Dec. 22 at the Barclays Center, Golden State trailed 65-49 after a sluggish first half. But the Warriors came out of halftime and cranked up their defense against the most turnover-prone team in the NBA and won 117-101. The Nets wilted under the pressure, turning the ball over 11 times in the third quarter and 18 times in the second half. For the game, the Warriors scored 32 points off the Nets 26 turnovers. The Warriors were credited with a season-high 19 steals, five by Curry and four by Klay Thompson.

5. MATCHUP TO WATCH

Zaza Pachulia vs. Brook Lopez: In the last meeting, Pachulia had 15 points, 14 rebounds and four assists in 26 minutes in his best game as a Warrior. Lopez, the former Stanford star, needs 19 points to reach 10,000 for his career. He is averaging 20.7 points this season and is the Nets biggest remaining 3-point threat, hitting 91 of 266 for a respectable 34.2 percent. (Brooklyn traded Bojan Bogdanovic and his 99 3-pointers to Washington last week.) In the last game before the All-Star break, Lopez had 36 points and eight blocked shots against Milwaukee, making him the first player with six 3-pointers and eight blocks in the same game.

6. 50-POINT HISTORY

The Warriors 50-point quarter against the Clippers was the fourth in Warriors history. Amazingly, the other three came in an 18-day span in March of 1989. Golden State scored a franchise-record 57 points in the third quarter in a 155-143 victory over Sacramento on March 4, 1989. Three days later against the Clippers, the Warriors scored 50 in the fourth quarter of a 138-112 triumph. The Warriors trailed 89-88 after three quarters in that one. On March 21, the Warriors had another 50-point fourth quarter as they beat Portland 151-127. Those Warriors teams were led by Chris Mullin, Mitch Richmond and Terry Teagle in the pre-Run TMC days before Tim Hardaway was drafted three months later. The last 50-point quarter in the NBA not counting the All-Star Game was on March 25, 2014 when the Los Angeles Lakers (without Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol) scored 51 against the New York Knicks.

7. TOUGH STRETCH

This is Game 2 of the Nets eight-game Circus Trip while the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus occupies the Barclays Center. Brooklyn already owns the leagues worst road record at 2-24 and figures to add to the loss total with games at Oakland, Sacramento, Utah, Portland, Memphis, Atlanta and Dallas still to come. But at least they wont set an NBA record for worst road season. The 1990-91 Kings were 1-40 on the road.

8. MISMATCH

The Warriors (48-9 .842) and Nets (9-48 .158) enter this game with won-lost records that are the exact opposite. But the discrepancy in their winning percentages (.684) isnt quite that of the .727 when the Warriors faced the Los Angeles Lakers last March 6 at Staples Center. The Lakers won that game 112-95 in the biggest upset in NBA history based on winning percentages.

9. HOW LOW CAN THEY GO?

Besides having the worst record in the NBA, the Nets are also at the bottom of the NBA in several categories. They are last in points allowed (114.5 per game), last in point differential (minus-9.0), last in turnovers (16.5), 28th in rebound differential (minus-3.8), 28th in offensive rebounds allowed (11.3), 29th in getting their own shots blocked (5.8), 28th in offensive efficiency (101.2 points per 100 possessions) and 28th in defensive efficiency (109.5 points per 100 possessions).

10. BACK IN ACTION

Palo Alto native Jeremy Lin returned to Brooklyns lineup Friday night in Denver after missing 26 games because of a strained left hamstring suffered the day after Christmas against Charlotte. He had seven points and five assists in 15 minutes against the Nuggets.

Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/25/warriors-tonight-10-things-about-the-nets-matchup/

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Clippers" Paul Pierce says back-and-forth with Warriors" Draymond Green is no beef

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If you believe Clippers forward Paul Pierce, he doesnt have an issue with Golden States trash-talking forward Draymond Green.

Even when Green mocked Pierce during the game Thursday night between the Clippers and warriors, pierce claimed friday that he has no beef with the Golden State forward.

Green could be heard yelling at Pierce while he sat on the bench during the game at Oracle Arena.

You cant get no farewell tour, Green said to Pierce. They dont love you like thatYou thought you was Kobe?

When asked about those comments before Friday nights game against the San Antonio Spurs, Pierce, who is retiring after the season, laughed.

Hes not beefing with me, Pierce said, laughing, smiling. That wasnt no beef. I aint got no beef in the NBA. I done already settled all my beefs. Naw, that aint beef.

But Chris Paul did respond on Twitter to Greens comments.

73 wins and u thought u was gonna win a title that yr..3-1 lead oops, Paul tweeted.

Paul was referring to Golden States NBA best-ever record last season and how the Warriors blew a 3-1 lead to Cleveland in the Finals.

Thats just good banter, Pierce said, laughing again. Thats all it is. Just good back and forth banter. Thats all.

Expect lineup changes

With Paul back playing for the Clippers after missing 14 games recovering from a torn ligament in his left thumb, Coach Doc Rivers said h**l now be able to use different starting lineups.

The Clippers have 24 regular-season games left, and thats more than enough time for Rivers to tinker with his players.

Though Rivers started Luc Mbah a Moute at small forward against the Spurs, his position is the most likely to see change. Rivers also started Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan, J.J. Redick and Paul.

When Paul was sidelined, Rivers at times started a three-guard lineup of Austin Rivers, Raymond Felton and Redick.

So depending on the opponent the Clippers face the rest of the way, the coach figures that he has options to play big or small.

Well make changes, Doc Rivers said. I think what we want to do now is go with what we talked about before the year. We really havent had a chance to do it, but were going to go to the matchups we like and play that way. We want to start this lineup most nights, but there will be nights where we probably have different lineups.

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Review: In "Get Out," Guess Who"s Coming to Dinner? (Bad Idea!)

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Those arms and smiles all but engulf Chris (the British actor Daniel Kaluuya, going deep in a breakthrough performance), a photographer with a sweet pad, adorable dog and equally frisky, adoring girlfriend, Rose (a perfectly cast Allison Williams, from the HBO show Girls). The story opens with them preparing for a long weekend with her parents. Do they know Im black? Chris gently asks. They dont, but Rose assures him not to worry, and off they go into the countryside and narrative complications. Mr. Peele, making his feature debut, sets a cozy, innocuous scene complete with coos and loving glances, a tranquillity that shatters with an eerily inopportune deer crossing.

By the time Chris and Rose pull up to her parents house a stately brick building with imposing white columns and rocking chairs on the front porch ripples of unease have disturbed the calm. The nicer Roses parents, Dean (Bradley Whitford) and Missy (Catherine Keener), behave, the greater the ripples. They dont blink at him or his race (Ms. Keener is a virtuoso of the deadeye stare), but instead adopt the forced geniality of people who seem anxious to hide their discomfort. Missys the watchful one, while the voluble Dean cozies up to Chris, dropping embarrassing slang and relating an odd story about Jesse Owens, the black Olympian who shocked Hitler.

Photo Mr. Kaluuya in Get Out. Credit Universal Pictures

Mr. Peele is best known for his work with Keegan-Michael Key on their titular comedy sketch show, where politics mixed freely with the laughs. Together they starred in the 2016 comedy Keanu, a lampoon of action cinema that was a (slack) piece with the movie love that was a mainstay of their show. In one memorable bit from the show, heckling cinephiles voice their complaints (this movie has an inconsistent visual language!); in another, two friends realize that the reason the zombie hordes arent attacking them is theyre flesh-eating racists. Get Out expands on, and considerably deepens, a similar idea by turning white racism into disquieting genre shivers.

But Mr. Peele is after more than giggles and shocks; hes taking on 21st-century white racism and its rationales. The opener a black man talking on a cellphone on an empty suburban street briskly sets the tone, unsettles the mood and announces Mr. Peeles way with metaphor. Hes working within a recognizable horror-film framework here (the darkness, the stillness), so its not surprising when a car abruptly pulls up and begins tailing the man. You may even snicker because you think youve seen this flick before. Except that when this man anxiously looks for a way out, the scene grows discordantly disturbing because you may, as I did, flash on Trayvon Martin.

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Its a jarring moment that might have been catastrophic for the movie if Mr. Peele didnt quickly yank you back into its fiction. (Hes got great timing, no surprise.) Theres relief when the offscreen world recedes just then. Yet part of what makes Get Out both exciting and genuinely unsettling is how real life keeps asserting itself, scene after scene. Our monsters, Mr. Peele reminds us, are at times as familiar as the neighborhood watch; one persons fiction, after all, is anothers true-life horror story. For his part, Chris, separated existentially, chromatically and every other way, spends so much time putting the white world at ease that he cant recognize the threat coming for him.

Mr. Peele knows that threat, plays with it and eviscerates it with jokes and scares, only to top it off messily with full-on Grand Guignol splatter. But some of his finest, most genuinely shocking work is his quietest. One of the best scenes Ive seen in a long while finds Chris talking with one of the parents black servants, a maid, Georgina (a fantastic Betty Gabriel). Chris confesses that he gets nervous when around a lot of white people, an admission that Georgina answers by advancing toward him with a volley of no, no, no, cascades of tears and a smile so wide it looks as if it could split her face in two. Something has gotten under her skin and its frightening.

Get Out

NYT Critics Pick

• Director Jordan Peele

• Writer Jordan Peele

• Stars Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener

• Rating R

• Running Time 1h 43m

• Genres Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

• Movie data powered by IMDb.comLast updated: Feb 25, 2017

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Morta la �Regina di Myspace�: Christine Dolce deceduta per abuso di alcol

Christine Dolce - "If U Seek Amy"

E morta per indufficienza epatica causata dallabuso di alcol la regina di myspace christine dolce. il decesso avvenuto lo scorso 6 febbraio ma solo negli ultimi giorni la notizia divenuta di dominio pubblico: la stella virale che aveva trovato la fama sullallora popolare Myspace e che ha anche posato per Playboy, aveva solo 35 anni; il ricovero era avvenuto nel mese di dicembre a causa dei problemi insorti legati allabuso di alcol, come indicato da Tmz. La stella del web divenuta popolare grazie ai suoi accattivanti selfie, morta proprio in ospedale, circondata dalla sua famiglia e la scorsa settimana stato celebrato il suo funerale.

Dolce, che postava con il nickname ForBiddeN venne eletta Regina di Myspace da Vanity Fair nel 2006 nel momento di massima popolarit del sito. Aveva infatti raccolto oltre 800 mila amici, comprese celebrit del calibro della rock band Nine Inch Nails e di Dave Navarro. Ha sfruttato la sua fama anche nei mesi successivi, per lanciare una linea di abbigliamento chiamata Destroyed Denime e nello stesso anno, nel mese di ottobre, ha posato per la rivista Playboy con scatti che ha elogiato anche negli anni seguenti nel corso di diverse interviste. Dolce viveva a Huntington Beach, in California: qui negli ultimi anni ha lavorato come modella, make-up artist, attrice e stilista, come indicato sul suo profilo sul sito Model Mayhem.

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Warriors" JaVale McGee: May start Thursday

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McGee could remain the starting center Thursday even though Zaza Pachulia (shoulder) is expected to return to action, Anthony Slater of the San Jose Mercury News reports.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr feels Pachulia will ultimately return to a starting role, but wants to make sure he"s healthy. Kerr is also considering the possibility of leaving mcgee as the full-time starter. the five-man unit featuring McGee and Golden State"s four All-Stars -- Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant and Draymond Green -- is the most efficient grouping among the 90 different lineups across the NBA to have played at least 100 minutes together. Kerr will also consider the skill each player offers. McGee"s strength is in the lob-and-dunk game, giving opponents one more element to consider in their own end while spacing the floor. But Pachulia is the superior defender, passer and screener.

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Why most missing children and runaways won"t get an Amber Alert

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COLUMBIA & RICHMOND Co., Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- It"s not all the time you"ll see an amber alert pop up on your phone . It"s even less frequent the amber alert is from your area, but that doesn"t mean less children are going missing or running away.

"They are reported everyday," said Daniel Gaston. "If we issued Amber alerts every time a child went missing your phone will be constantly going off."

That"s because in 2016 alone 555 runaways were reported in Richmond County, but the sheriffs office didn"t issue any Amber Alerts. Columbia County reported 122 runaways and missing people, mostly kids, but the county only issued one Amber Alert.

That alert was for Cahlah Wascow.

"That was a special circumstance. We knew who is taking that child we knew she was of abducted and we believe that she was in imminent danger," said Gaston.

They also had a tag description for the car and a description of her and her alleged abductor. All requirements to broadcast the alert nationwide.

"as a parent i understand that it"s frustrating not being able to do anything not knowing where your child is that. [...] But then again when the Amber alert the criteria set for certain reasons and part of that is if they were issued every single time society will become numb to that effect :56 he would get a response that you do with an Amber alert ," said Gaston.

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"Ren Hang" Celebrates the Chinese Photographer"s Work

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Update 24 February 2017: tragically, it"s been reported that Ren Hang has passed away aged just 29 years old.

Shooting on film, photographer Ren Hang captures his friends in trees and rivers in the woods, in his apartment and on the roofs of buildings in Beijing, all providing an escape from the imposing world around him and breaking from a pervasive Chinese sentiment of sexual expression, sexuality and nudity as taboo. Hang instead celebrates itin portraits, scenes and groupsin a photo book equivalent of a cant-stop page-turner and one of the most refreshing global debuts weve seen lately.

Few books have captured our attention as Hangs has, for his fresh approach and eager eye, use of color (or lack of it, often capturing pale and muted tones), fluid and occasionally head-scratching compositions (is that six pairs of hands popping through two sets of legs?), expression and mystique. Despite a world of n**e and explicit images available online, there arent many capturing Chinese millennials and their sexuality. Further, Hangs work is not about intimacy or eroticism; it is a lens on his friends and their desire to celebrate and memorialize their bodies and sexuality in their prime years. His images depict his friends beautifully, while showy, colorful animals, bright red nail polish, fruit, plants and water all play supporting roles.

Hang, 29 years old, is an artist of growing renown, having shown in China (though not without controversy and censorship) and several countries and a series of collectable self-published books. This is the first book to show his work on a thorough and global scale and its launch coincides with two exhibitions of his workat Amsterdams Foam photography museum, open through 12 March 2017 and at Stockholms Fotografiska museum open through 2 April 2017.

To learn more about Hangs work we spoke with Dian Hanson, a highly regarded writer and editor of sexual subjects whos worked with Taschen since 2001 as their Sexy Books editor, and has published more than 60 books since then, as well as writing and editing numerous adult magazines (including "Big b**t" and "Leg Show") for nearly 30 years before that. "Ren Hang," her latest book, provided the perfect opportunity to learn about hangs incredible talent and his unique perspective on sexuality in China today.

What drew you to Rens work?

Ren is a complicated character. He suffers from severe depression and spends a lot of time barely functioning He couldnt do anything that doesnt give him some hope or pleasure. And because his grasp on pleasure and happiness is so tenuous he is driven to do and do over and over again the things that relieve that depression. Friendships are very important to him. He isnt comfortable with strangers and people he doesnt know well. He can only do this with his friends, and because they live under so much repression and dont have much freedom getting to do things with their bodies is kind of important to them... A way to experience freedom.

His friends are very good looking... and he has well-endowed friends.

You know, that was the main thing that made me want to do this book. I felt I owed it to every Asian man in the world. Ren likes to look at big penises more [than smaller ones], so he photographs big penises, and he seems to have no trouble finding them.

To your point about freedom and expression, you definitely see that in his work. People seem comfortable in their skin, happy to be photographed. How much of that do you think is universal and how much of that is about the sexual repression they experience?

Theres so much to be inferred by what Ren doesnt want to say out loud. That he doesnt want to refer ever to any sense of government repression, any problems with the government. He doesnt want to suggest it because he doesnt want it to come true.

Is that repression part of your attraction to his work?

Having to live in that careful, careful way is sobering. I had long wanted to do a book with a Chinese artist because I wanted to see what they went through, how difficult it was, and then Ren came along just doing anything he wantspissing on Godzilla (which represents Japan), people shoving things up their assholesand you wonder, "How does he think of this?" They are living free lives within their apartments, and when you look at where Ren shoots, they can live a free life way on the top of a building where no one can see, they can live a free life way out in the woods, so theyre choosing where their freedoms are, and when they get to those places, they live to the fullest His assistant says that when they are on a shoot they are all very happy, and Ren is very happy. Hes smiling. Its a time when they feel free.

What images in the book are you particularly drawn to?

The endpapers. The two torsos side by side with their big lolling dicks and the roses strewn across them. The nice thing about the penises is they look a little red, a little greasy, they look as if theyve been used recently I really like the picture of the man urinating on Godzilla. I really like the photo of Jun [Rens assistant] lying starkly in the bathtub with the black fish swimming around her head and her hair.

"Ren Hang" is available from "Amazon" or Taschen for $50.

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