Pat Spencer Rumors

“Last year, I feel like we went to the regular season and we had to earn our respect through winning, because we hadn’t done anything yet,” guard Alex Caruso told The Athletic, his eyelid purple and plump after taking a shot from feisty Warriors guard Pat Spencer two nights earlier. “That being said, a lot of teams probably didn’t show up with the same energy and same mindset that they do this year that’s coming off (us) winning the championship. “A lot of times, I think we’re not playing our best, at least not to the level that these other teams are coming in with. The mindset, the execution. Maybe their will to win is a little higher than ours, which shouldn’t be the case.”

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Brandon Rahbar: Jalen Williams was asked by @NBAonPrime what Pat Spencer said to get a tech. "You guys want me to get fined [laughs].. I'm not allowed to repeat what Pat said." JDub said Spencer is a dog.. and that he was just too close to the refs when he said what he said.

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Sam Gordon: Kerr on Jonathan Kuminga’s path back into Golden State’s rotation: "It's tough because he's not really a short-minute player. I played a bunch of guys eight, 10 minutes. JK is a guy who needs his rhythm. He's not like a Gui (Santos) who's going to come in or Pat (Spencer) and just fly around and play with great energy for four minutes and come out. He needs some rhythm. He always has to stay ready. There's a pathway there, but right now, it's not there. But things change quickly in the NBA."

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Jimmy Butler showing love to his teammate Pat Spencer! 🤝

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Anthony Slater: Al Horford and Pat Spencer are out for the Warriors tomorrow night in Phoenix. Everyone else available.

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Anthony Slater: Pat Spencer is out Thursday in Phoenix for personal reasons, per Warriors.

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Spencer went viral in a Dec. 4 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers after hitting a clutch 3-pointer and screaming “I’m that mother f*****” to the crowd. From a distance, Curry wasn’t surprised at all when he saw that sequence. “I remember the first day I was playing pickup with him, he was talking trash to me,” Curry said. “Like three years ago, right before training camp. So it’s nothing new, it’s just great for the world to see it.”

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"It’s amazing to watch," Curry said Thursday after practice. "We've seen it over the summers, in practice, when he's been out there in short spurts. He just has a presence about him that he just knows the game. He plays with 120 percent of confidence every time he's out there. And as a kind of playmaker role, it was cool to see him kind of adapt to what we needed pretty much overnight. And I think it'll only help us as we keep moving forward."

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Pat Spencer is still playing on borrowed time. He has logged 17 of his 50 eligible games as a two-way player. Eventually, the Warriors will need to convert him to a full-time contract — or send him back to the G League. Only one of those options is acceptable to the guard. Spencer doesn’t want much. He isn’t in this for the fame and fortune. The guard still drives the same 2011 Honda CRV that shuttled him between lacrosse and basketball practices in high school. He prides himself on simplicity. “Look, this is cliche, but if you told me I could live and my family would be taken care of and I could do all of this for free — then I would do it,” Spencer said.

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Many offensive fundamentals of lacrosse are intertwined with the basics of basketball. Attackers utilize screen actions to create spacing. The sports even share similar vocabulary — pick-and-roll, drive-and-kick. In summer workouts, Collins noticed that Spencer manipulated screens with the adept confidence of a veteran guard. By opening day, he had won the starting point guard position. Collins still believes Spencer could have grown into a All-Big Ten player if he had one more year of eligibility. But even on its own, that solo season showcased his potential. “It just reaffirmed my belief in myself,” Spencer said. “It was a testament to the fact that — look, I can’t even shoot the ball yet. My body’s not where I wanted it to be yet. And I’m still able to do what I was doing. It reaffirmed that, OK, if I put my head down and start working, I’m going to make this thing happen.”

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In an interview with 95.7 The Game’s “Steiny & Guru” show, Spencer revealed that he often does not recall what comes out of his mouth during his electric celebrations on the court. “It’s messed up. I black out when I have those moments,” Spencer told hosts Matt Steinmetz and Daryle “Guru” Johnson. “Everyone’s repeating it back to me, but it’s almost as if I don’t remember it.”

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Sam Gordon: Warriors roll 123-91 and improve to 14-12. Jimmy Butler returns with 19/8/6, Brandin Podziemski with 21/8/7, Quinten Post supplies 19 points/five threes and Pat Spencer adds 12/5/6. Jonathan Kuminga not in a rotation set to deepen with Stephen Curry/Draymond Green/Al Horford.

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Because the 29-year-old wants this. Badly enough to swallow his pride in favor of patience. To work on his game until he can’t be denied. It’s a spirit of toughness and grit, forged from a pure love of the game. The locker room loves him for it, and now he’s known by his Philadelphia proclamation. “Pat is that motherf—,” forward Gui Santos said. “He’s great. It’s great to have a guy like that on the team.”

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Sam Gordon: Pat Spencer said he’s always been confident and highlights how his role has shifted from an energizer to an orchestrator. Said when the Warriors coaching staff “gives you that level of confidence, it’s pretty easy to go out there.”

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