Warriors guard Brandin Podziemski revealed the importance of his shared car ride home from Sacramento last week with Golden State teammate Dennis Schröder.

Stephen Curry hit a long 3-pointer with 1:52 left on the way to 21 points, Andrew Wiggins scored 27 and the Golden State Warriors beat the Western Conference-leading Oklahoma City Thunder 116-109.

After starting Tuesday's game against the Jazz, Schroder will head back to Golden State's second unit in Stephen Curry's (knees) return Wednesday. Over three games off the bench for the Warriors, the veteran guard has averaged 9.3 points, 5.0 assists, 2.0 rebounds and 1.3 threes in 20.9 minutes.

Enter Gary Payton II, who received the ball from a driving Dennis Schröder and got all the way up, slamming down a thunderous dunk on OKC center Isaiah Hartenstein to extend the Warriors’ lead to nine points with just over a minute to play. The dunk got the entire Golden State bench on its feet, and sent the crowd into hysterics.

The Golden State Warriors started their 114-103 victory Tuesday over the undermanned Utah Jazz without their starting point guard — and almost finished it without their backup point guard. Or so it momentarily seemed.

Stephen Curry was named USA Basketball's 5-on-5 Male Athlete of the Year and Steve Kerr was awarded 5-on-5 Coach of the Year for their contributions to the 2024 Olympic Gold Medal run, USAB announced on Wednesday.

The PGA Tour will unveil in March from a fan survey that an exec group identified four areas of interest, being broadcast enhancements, competitive adjustments, player content and profile, and on-site experience,

Andrew Wiggins, Kevon Looney and Gary Payton II made the Chase Center feel like old times Wednesday night. Was it their last hurrah?

Yeah, so I think Pat hasn’t updated his software. I think he still believes it’s the 1980s or 1990s, where money controls the players. Back then, you needed th

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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- The PGA Tour is taking a hard look at whether to allow rangefinders and publicize violations as part of a comprehensive study on pace of play and other enhancements to the game that have come out of a survey of 50,000 golf fans.