2014 Training Camp

Andy Fahey

The Golden State Warriors have waived guard Aaron Craft, guard/forward Jason Kapono, guard Sean Kilpatrick, forward James Michael McAdoo and forward Mitchell Watt, the team announced following tonight’s preseason finale against the Denver Nuggets.  The team’s roster now stands at 15 players.

Craft appeared in four preseason games, averaging 3.0 points, 2.5 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.00 steal in 14.7 minutes per contest.

Kapono appeared in five preseason games, averaging 3.2 and 1.6 rebounds in 8.7 minutes per game.

Kilpatrick signed with the Warriors on October 20 and did not appear in a preseason game for Golden State.

McAdoo appeared in five preseason games, averaging 5.6 points, 3.6 rebounds and 1.20 steals in 13.0 minutes per contest.

Watt appeared in two preseason games, averaging 3.5 points, 2.0 rebounds, 1.5 assists and a team-leading 1.50 blocks in 9.5 minutes per game.

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Warriors Waive Craft, Kapono, Kilpatrick, Mcadoo and Watt

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Not that there was ever any doubt, but Klay Thompson is certainly ready for the regular season to begin. He showed as much on Friday night, scoring 35 points to lead the Warriors to a 119-112 win over the Nuggets in the preseason finale at Oracle Arena.

Thompson’s big night was highlighted by a 15-point third quarter in which he showed off multiple ways to put the rock in the basket. Not only did he connect on four 3-pointers on the night, but he also shot 9-for-14 on shots inside the arc. Furthermore, he led the team with six attempts from the free throw line.

With the win, the Warriors wrapped up a 6-2 preseason. And after stressing the importance of sharing the basketball and limiting turnovers throughout training camp, Head Coach Steve Kerr saw the team’s best results yet. The Dubs shot 51.2 percent from the field and tallied 35 assists on 44 made baskets. In addition, they had just 12 turnovers.

With the five-man combinations on the floor the Warriors, this game most resembled a regular season effort of all the team’s preseason games. The top seven players in terms of minutes played last season – Stephen Curry, Thompson, Andre Iguodala, David Lee, Andrew Bogut, Harrison Barnes and Draymond Green – saw the most court time in this victory, and they all made heavy contributions to the win.

Curry scored 13 of his 17 points in the first half and finished with a game-high 11 assists, while Bogut and Iguodala were dropping dimes all night with eight and seven assists apiece.

Now it’s on to the regular season, and the Warriors will start the 2014-15 campaign up on Wednesday night in Sacramento before returning to Oracle Arena on November 1 for their home opener against the Lakers.

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Warriors Take Care of Business in Preseason Finale

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Preseason: Warriors vs. Nuggets - 10/24/14

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Preseason: Warriors vs. Clippers - 10/21/2014

The Warriors won their first of two home preseason games on Tuesday night, a 125-107 victory over the visiting rival Los Angeles Clippers. Golden State closed the second quarter on a 7-2 run to give them a 62-60 lead at halftime, and the Dubs never looked back. The Warriors shot 59% from the field as a team in a balanced scoring attack, as all but one of the 12 players who received minutes scored at least six points apiece.

Stephen Curry led all scorers with 27 points, 12 of which came in the third quarter, to go along with his six assists and three steals. David Lee and Justin Holiday added 12 points each, and Ognjen Kuzmic neared a double-double with eight points and 10 rebounds.

The most promising development of the game, however, might have been the play of backup center Festus Ezeli. Playing in his first game since May 2013, Ezeli scored 10 points, but more importantly looked completely back to full strength after missing the last year and a half recovering from injury. He looked as spry as ever, throwing down alley-oops and imposing himself on the defensive end.

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Warriors Defeat Clippers, Move to 5-2 in Preseason

The Golden State Warriors have signed free agent guard Sean Kilpatrick to a contract, the team announced today. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not released.

Kilpatrick, 24, earned First Team All-America honors as a senior at the University of Cincinnati in 2013-14, posting an American Athletic Conference-best 20.6 points per contest to go with 4.3 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.41 steals in 34 games, while leading the conference in three-point field goals (93). In four years with the Bearcats, the 6’4” guard tallied averages of 15.3 points, 4.3 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.19 steals in 30.8 minutes over 140 career games, finishing as the school’s second all-time leading scorer behind only Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson. He was a Second Team All-Big East selection in 2011-12 and 2012-13 before earning First Team All-AAC honors as a senior.

Kilpatrick will wear uniform #25. The Warriors roster currently stands at 20 players.

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Warriors Sign Sean Kilpatrick

The Warriors fell to 4-2 in the preseason after losing to the Rockets 90-83 on Sunday night. Despite playing without Stephen Curry or Klay Thompson, who sat out the game, the Warriors were in it until the end but fell just short. Justin Holiday led all scorers with 18 points, while Nemanja Nedovic impressed with 16 points and five assists.

David Lee joined the Splash Brothers on the bench early in the second quarter and sat for the rest of the contest. The absence of the Warriors typical starting trio gave some of the younger players a chance to get some valuable minutes. Holiday showed off his range, going 4-of-8 from three-point range, while Nedovic seemed to be able to get to the basket at will. Ognjen Kuzmic and Aaron Craft both found ways to fill up the stat sheet as well.

After opening the preseason on a four-game win streak, Golden State has lost the last two contests; however, they’ve yet to play a home game. That will change come Tuesday when the Warriors host the rival Clippers in their first of two home games to conclude the preseason.

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Warriors Fall in Houston to Conclude Preseason Road Trip

The Warriors’ undefeated run in the preseason is no longer. After overcoming a 17-point deficit in the fourth quarter on Thursday night in Iowa, the Dubs were the ones who couldn’t hold on to a double-digit lead in Friday’s 115-108 loss to the Heat in Kansas City.

Before the fourth quarter collapse, the Warriors had showed no signs of playing on the back end of a back-to-back. David Lee made all 11 of his shots and Klay Thompson had 18 points in the third quarter and the Warriors led by as many as 14 points.

Despite the result, there were several bright spots for the Warriors. Thompson showcased a lot of the skill that made him one of the most talked about players for the U.S. National Team at last month’s FIBA World Cup. The Splash Brother made four 3-pointers and finished with a game-high 29 points while also finishing off an impressive one-handed slam for one of the game’s top highlights.

David Lee continued his stellar preseason with 24 points. Through four games on the exhibition slate – he sat out Thursday in Iowa against the Nuggets – the veteran forward is averaging 15.8 points while shooting 74 percent from the field in fewer than 25 minutes a game.