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» Sunday, April 21 2013

Scott Howard-Cooper: David Lee hopeful of avoiding surgery, but no final decision yet. Confident, as previously noted, he will be ready for start of camp. Twitter @SHowardCooper

 

» Friday, April 12 2013

When the Warriors played the Lakers on March 25, the Warriors walked away with a 109-103 victory, and Lakers center Dwight Howard walked away with stitches in his busted lip — courtesy of a David Lee elbow. After that game, Howard said, “I will remember this game. I will remember that shot. He said he wasn’t trying to do it. You can look at the play and see it for yourself. I will take care of it later.” San Francisco Chronicle

So he was asked again what he plans to do about it? “Listen, I’m not going to do anything stupid to mess up our team. Don’t go out there looking and expecting me to go MMA on David Lee. There’s no need for that. My teammates need me on the floor, and they need me for the playoffs. I’m not going to do anything stupid to mess up myself or mess up David Lee. There’s a right way to go about it, and that’s to just play ball.” San Francisco Chronicle

 

» Thursday, March 28 2013

The NBA has retroactively assessed Golden State Warriors forward David Lee a flagrant foul 1 for his hit to the face of Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard, according to a Lakers spokesman. Howard said it was too little, too late following the Lakers' 120-117 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday. "I don't really care," Howard said. "It's late now. There's nothing we can do about it." ESPN.com

 

» Tuesday, March 26 2013

 

» Tuesday, March 12 2013

David Lee’s key to any defensive improvement, as he’s often struggled in a defensively important position. Bigs tend to matter more on D, as the art is about occupying space. Lee has especially poor agility when hedging back towards the paint from the perimeter, so the sink strategy was meant to mitigate that flaw. Kirk Goldsberry’s Lee-skewering Sloan paper on interior defense, titled “The Dwight Effect,” came at the right time for Kirk and the wrong time for D-Lee. The Warriors were imploding defensively and Lee was getting plenty of blame. After the victory, I asked Lee for his thoughts on the paper: “At this point I could care less. I’ve worked hard to improve my defense. I think I’m a much better defensive player today than I was a year ago and definitely to start my career. There’s a lot of different numbers to support a lot of different things. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t say me putting up 20 and 10 doesn’t matter because ‘numbers don’t matter,’ but at the same time, ‘charts at MIT matter.’ You can’t have it both ways.” WarriorsWorld.net

 

» Monday, March 11 2013

 

» Sunday, March 10 2013

 

» Wednesday, February 27 2013

Colangelo, chairman of USA Basketball, said Tuesday by phone that Golden State Warriors forward David Lee, a former University of Florida star, approached him at All-Star Weekend earlier this month in Houston to indicate his desire to play for Team USA. And Colangelo is intrigued. “He’s had a heck of a year,’’ Colangelo said. “He’s been healthy. He’s been with us before but he had injuries.’’ FOXSports Florida

 

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