Warriors Off Court

After Golden State's blowout win over the Los Angeles Clippers in the last regular-season game at Oracle Arena, Chronicle beat writer Connor Letourneau and his predecessor, Rusty Simmons, sweep aside the confetti and talk about the final-night celebration, the We Believe team, and the Warriors' playoff prospects. 

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Warriors beat writer Connor Letourneau made the trip down to Santa Cruz recently to get to know the Santa Cruz Warriors' Alen Smailagic, a 6-foot-10 power forward from Belgrade, Serbia who Golden State might be targeting in June's NBA draft. In this episode, Letourneau has interviews with Smailagic, Santa Cruz head coach Aaron Miles and Santa Cruz general manager Kent Lacob.

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Warriors center Andrew Bogut joins beat writer Connor Letourneau to discuss his circuitous route back to Golden State, which he won a championship with in 2015. Among the adversity he weathered in his two-plus years between Warriors stints: the death of his grandfather, a broken leg seconds into his first game with Cleveland and his wife’s high-risk pregnancy.

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Pabail Sidhu, Golden State’s director of analytics, joins beat writer Connor Letourneau to discuss his circuitous path to the Warriors, his behind-the-scenes role and the importance of number-crunching in the NBA.

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San Francisco Chronicle columnist Scott Ostler joins beat writer Connor Letourneau to analyze what exactly is going on with the Warriors. Golden State has lost six of its past 10 games. And none of those defeats were worse than Sunday’s, when the Warriors fumbled away a 16-point first-quarter lead to fall to Phoenix for the first time in 19 meetings. With the playoffs little more than four weeks away, can Golden State get things back on track for the games that matter most?

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Warriors coach Steve Kerr sits down with San Francisco Chronicle beat writer Connor Letourneau to talk about his three-year tenure as the Phoenix Suns’ general manager, and how that front-office stint prepared him for his current role leading the back-to-back NBA champs. 

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San Francisco Chronicle sportswriters Connor Letourneau and Ron Kroichick sit down for an emergency episode to talk about the Warriors' surprising move to bring Andrew Bogut back for the playoff run. Bogut's been playing in the second-tier Australian league and hasn't exactly been lighting it up, but he's a traditional big man, something Golden State doesn't have, and will need this spring. 

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Warriors sideline reporter Kerith Burke joins beat writer Connor Letourneau to discuss her career, being a woman in sports journalism and what it’s like being on the other end of those entertaining on-court interviews with Klay Thompson.

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Ahead of All-Star Weekend in Charlotte, sports columnist Scott Ostler sits down with beat writer Connor Letourneau to discuss how the Warriors are looking and examine the aftermath of Kevin Durant’s contentious postgame presser. 

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San Francisco Chronicle sports columnist Ann Killion joins Warriors beat writer Connor Letourneau to talk about Kevin Durant's emotional press conference Wednesday night following Golden State's 141-102 rout of the San Antonio Spurs. Durant broke a nine-day silence to take issue with reporters' coverage of his impending free agency.

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