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"content": "\u003cp>It was not your usual Wednesday night at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/grand-lake-theatre\">Grand Lake Theatre\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside Oakland’s movie palace in March, Hollywood actors made their way down the red carpet. Rap legends and punk OGs mingled beneath the marquee. Fans got on their tiptoes behind the line of TV cameras, jockeying for a glimpse of the film’s star, Pedro Pascal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Premieres at the Grand Lake are always exciting, but they’re extra special when the movie is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13974034/freaky-tales-movie-easter-eggs-locations-cameos-oakland\">filmed and set in Oakland\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, from screenwriting and directing team Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (\u003cem>Half Nelson, Captain Marvel\u003c/em>), is a revenge-fantasy flick that takes place in the year 1987. It’s filmed at Oakland landmarks, including the Oakland Coliseum, Giant Burger and the old Loard’s ice cream parlor on Coolidge and MacArthur. Marshawn Lynch and Rancid’s Tim Armstrong make cameos, as does Oakland rap icon \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/too-short\">Too Short\u003c/a>, who narrates and helped produce the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973843\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans crowd the sidewalk for the ‘Freaky Tales’ special screening at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973838\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedro Pascal poses on the red carpet before the ‘Freaky Tales’ premiere at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s full, in other words, of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13974034/freaky-tales-movie-easter-eggs-locations-cameos-oakland\">people and locations that carry name recognition for locals\u003c/a>. But nationally, Oakland has never quite received proper credit for its contributions to American culture at large. As rapper \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13921058/watch-rising-oakland-rap-star-symbas-tiny-desk-concert\">Symba\u003c/a>, who plays Too Short in the film, remarked on the red carpet, “People get their curations, their whole make-up, from things that we created here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, then, is a movie about a town with a permanent underdog complex — and, fittingly, it’s told through different chapters, interconnected by Pascal’s performance as a hitman, that have underdogs as their heroes. A ragtag bunch of pacifist punk rockers beats up a crew of Nazi skinheads. Two teenage girls in a rap battle rip to shreds a rapper known for objectifying women. A basketball point guard comes alive for a mind-blowing fourth quarter in a historic comeback win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The freakiest thing of all? These are events that really happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973913\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Ellis as Sleepy Floyd in ‘Freaky Tales,’ surrounded by other actors in a scene outside the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, the events depicted in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> involved people who are still around to witness what likely seemed impossible 38 years ago: a Hollywood movie with Oakland as its true star. Here are some of their real-life tales.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Punching Nazis: A punk love story\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first chapter of \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> follows young couple Tina (Ji-young Yoo) and Lucid (Jack Champion) as they navigate an increasing menace to their home-base punk collective of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/924-gilman\">924 Gilman\u003c/a>: neo-Nazi skinheads, who barge into shows, knock people to the ground, assault girls and women and destroy band equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After taking a vote led by security guard Greg (LeQuan Antonio Bennett), the punks decide to fight back. During an Operation Ivy show at the Berkeley club, the Nazi skinheads return, but this time they’re met by a wall of punks armed with bats, chains and trash can lids. Battered in the ensuing brawl, the defeated Nazis pile into their smashed and dented pickup truck and drive away to the El Cerrito hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973920\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-1920x1439.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of Nazi skinheads approaches punk club 924 Gilman in a scene from ‘Freaky Tales.’ \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973928\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1987, skinheads caused trouble at punk shows around the country, including at 924 Gilman in Berkeley, pictured. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Minus a few details, the chapter is remarkably true to real-life events. Fleck and Boden had a good roadmap: the fight is recalled at length in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13239750/the-definitive-documentary-on-east-bay-punk-is-coming-pit-warning\">the East Bay punk documentary \u003cem>Turn It Around\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, directed by Gilman alum Corbett Redford, who came on as a technical advisor for the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Greg” in the film is based on George Stephens, a.k.a. George Hated, who in 1987 lived in West Oakland, sang in the band The Hated and served as head of security at Gilman. In an interview, Stephens, now 57, recalled walking out to the sidewalk that night and seeing Nondo, his friend who was also working security, lying in the gutter outside the front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13974034']“And there were three Nazis standing over him, one holding a bat. So I grabbed the bat out of the guy’s hands and hit the three of them, got Nondo up, and got him inside,” Stephens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On any other night, that might have been the end of it. But just like in the film, the punks at Gilman had vowed to fight, and emptied into the street. Even Dave Dictor, the singer of “peace-punk” band MDC, who were headlining that night, joined in wielding an aluminum crutch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More people came out, and it turned into an absolute mess,” said Stephens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973959\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Stephens today, pictured in Alameda on April 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kamala Parks, who co-founded Gilman and drummed in several bands, remembered the nuanced deliberations about retaliating against Nazis among volunteers at the club, whose door rules stated “No Fighting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of folks who had previously taken a more pacifist standpoint had been convinced to fight back, mainly because skinhead violence had gotten more pronounced,” she said. (Parks herself had been punched in the face by a skinhead during a previous melee across town.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the brawl outside Gilman, the punks had won. They even chased the Nazis across the street and smashed up their pickup truck before the skinheads sped away, fleeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1025px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1025\" height=\"1319\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_.jpg 1025w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_-800x1029.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_-1020x1313.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_-160x206.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_-768x988.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Clockwise from upper left) Kamala Parks drums with Cringer at 924 Gilman in 1990; the flyer for the show at Gilman on the night of the Nazi brawl, May 17, 1987; George Hated sings with the Hated at Gilman in 1992; rules posted at Gilman’s front door. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My heart was pounding right out of my chest,” Dave Dictor, MDC’s singer, recalled in \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29363293-mdc\">his 2016 autobiography\u003c/a>. “Right after the battle it was time to get on stage and sing, but I was too numb to be able to change gears to talk about it from the stage. As I remember, we just plowed through the set.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those mixed emotions were real, Parks said. “There was euphoria, but there’s dread, because you don’t know what’s going to happen next. You don’t know if they’re going to come back with a bigger group of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13973991 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamala Parks today, pictured in downtown Oakland on April 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parks stayed on edge for a few weeks afterward. Amazingly, the Nazis never came back to Gilman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Stephens points out, though, they never went away for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, we live in America,” Stephens said. “It’s not surprising that the Proud Boys are back. That fringe has never really gone away in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">924 Gilman St. in Berkeley on April 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>You want a bit of danger, step into my zone\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Ryan will tell you, he’s been pitching me a version of \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> for literally 15 years,” said Anna Boden, the film’s co-writer and co-director, in an interview. Her filmmaking partner, Ryan Fleck, grew up in Oakland; Boden in Massachusetts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And he grew up listening to Too Short’s music and I did not. And so I was listening to Too Short’s music for the first time as a grown woman. And it was, like, a \u003cem>very\u003c/em> different experience for me than it was for Ryan,” she said of Short’s explicit and often misogynist subject material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1208px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973969\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1208\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB.jpg 1208w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB-800x396.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB-1020x505.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB-768x380.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1208px) 100vw, 1208px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Too Short on the cover of his single ‘Freaky Tales,’ circa 1988; at right, Short’s early rap partner Freddy B in 1992. \u003ccite>(Dangerous Music/Serious Sounds)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But one song stuck out for Boden. In “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfSYngzHOsY\">Don’t Fight the Feelin’\u003c/a>” from the 1989 album \u003cem>Life Is… Too Short\u003c/em>, Short trades verses with a female rap duo called Danger Zone, who insult his bankroll, poke fun at his bad breath and make repeated references to his size below the belt: “Do they call you Short because of your height or your width? / Diss me boy, I’ll hang your balls from a cliff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boden knew she had found her entry to the story. “Hearing him allow himself to be taken down by these young women was kind of mind-blowing to me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the film, Barbie and Entice from Danger Zone are approached by Lenny G (the rapper Stunnaman02, in a role based on Short’s early rap partner \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop/timeline#too-short-and-freddy-b-start-making-handmade-tapes\">Freddy B\u003c/a>) to battle Short onstage at the Town’s hottest nightclub, Sweet Jimmie’s. Dubious of the proposition, but tired of being mistreated at their day job scooping ice cream, they accept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973921\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Dominique Thorne and Normani as Danger Zone’s Barbie and Entice in a scene from ‘Freaky Tales.’ \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The song unfolds in a thrilling scene, verse for verse, with actor and rapper Symba portraying Short’s hunched gait and coy taunting. (Symba asked Short for pointers, “and he sent me four videos, and was like, ‘Just embody this, and you’ll be alright,’” he said.) Danger Zone, meanwhile, keep coming back with heat, and win over the crowd. By the end, Short daps up the girls, conceding a draw, if not defeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, “Don’t Fight the Feelin’” came together in the studio, not on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Tamra Goins is a talent agent in L.A. But in 1987, she was Entice — the 15-year-old East Oakland girl who linked up with her cousin, Bailey Brown, to form Danger Zone. They’d met Short through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13934715/kimmie-fresh-real-freaky-tales-oakland\">the female rap pioneer Kimmie Fresh\u003c/a> years before recording “Don’t Fight the Feelin’,” she said in an interview. Danger Zone had even been signed to Short’s Dangerous Music label, which released their song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvMjOBASvbc\">Jailbait\u003c/a>,” a blunt warning to underage girls about predatory men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 944px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973922\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"944\" height=\"808\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone.jpg 944w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone-800x685.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone-768x657.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fifteen-year-old cousins Bailey Brown and Tamra Goins, a.k.a. Barbie and Entice of Danger Zone, pictured in 1988. \u003ccite>(Dangerous Music)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Short’s manager, Randy Austin, pitched the concept for “Don’t Fight the Feelin’” to be included on Short’s next full-length album, Goins was hesitant, just like her character in the movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re terrified, right? Because one, we’re kids. Two, Short was known to call people head doctors. I think I was still a virgin! So we just were terrified of what he could possibly say,” Goins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laying down the track at engineer Al Eaton’s One Little Indian studio in Richmond — essentially Eaton’s living room — Goins and Brown came for Short so viciously that the men present, like rappers Spice 1 and Rappin’ 4-Tay, kept laughing and ruining the take. “They’re running out of the house, cracking up, laughing,” said Goins. “We can’t even get through it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973836\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Co-director Ryan Fleck high-fives Tamra Goins, a.k.a. Entice from Danger Zone, ahead of the ‘Freaky Tales’ premiere at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Short was similarly unprepared for Danger Zone’s verses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made the song, I did my two verses. And it was supposed to be about an old dude pullin’ up in his car flirting with these young girls,” Short explained on Nick Cannon’s \u003cem>We Playin’ Spades\u003c/em> podcast. “My verse was kinda nice. And they came back rippin’ me to shreds!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13934715']Short was rattled, but “I went home and listened to it, and I was like, ‘Damn, this is kind of cool … let me go back and talk a lotta shit about \u003cem>them\u003c/em>, and it’ll be a crazy song!’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After redoing his verses to match Danger Zone’s venom and adding Rappin’ 4-Tay to the track, the song grew to a ridiculous length of over 8 minutes. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop/timeline#kimmie-fresh-answers-too-shorts-freaky-tales-with-the-girls-story\">Kimmie Fresh had released her own eight-minute diss track to Short\u003c/a>, but this was men and women on the same song, a battle of the sexes on wax. Short knew it was gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1213\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-800x485.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-1020x619.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-768x466.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-1536x932.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-1920x1164.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danger Zone’s Tamra Goins (Entice) at far left, and Bailey Brown (Barbie) third from left, in a group photo of the cast and crew of ‘Freaky Tales’ at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2024. \u003ccite>(Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the song’s legendary status, Danger Zone never performed “Don’t Fight the Feelin’” live onstage with Short, as depicted in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>. (Goins and Short have done the song without Brown a handful of times at cruises and sorority events.) Brown, who later traveled the world as a dancer for MC Hammer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@getaroundwithbaileybrown\">currently lives in Ghana\u003c/a> most of the year, scriptwriting and producing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 53, Goins is proud of the song’s longevity among fans like Shaquille O’Neal, who lovingly \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/APrhXcftYPs?feature=shared&t=204\">goaded her into performing it on \u003cem>Sway’s Universe\u003c/em> in 2011\u003c/a>. But it comes with a dash of concern for her former 15-year-old self, rapping so brazenly amid the older pimps and players that inspired “Jailbait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I’ll look back at the lyrics and I go, ‘Oh!’” she said. “I’m a mom now. I’ll be like, ‘And why was your name \u003cem>Entice\u003c/em>?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1427px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973926\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1427\" height=\"1884\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987.jpg 1427w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-800x1056.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-1020x1347.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-160x211.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-768x1014.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-1163x1536.jpg 1163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1427px) 100vw, 1427px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden State Warriors’ Eric ‘Sleepy’ Floyd drives to the basket past Los Angeles Lakers’ James Worthy during their playoff game at the Oakland Arena on May 10, 1987. Floyd scored an NBA playoff record-setting 29 points in the fourth quarter, 12 field goals in the same quarter and 39 points in a half, to lead the Warriors to a 129-121 victory over the Lakers. \u003ccite>(Gary Reyes/Oakland Tribune via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A warrior in more ways than one\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>’ final chapter revolves around a story so well-known that it’s in the record books. In Game 4 of the 1987 NBA playoffs, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/warriors\">Warriors\u003c/a> were down 3-0 against the Lakers and trailed 102-88 going into the fourth quarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of nowhere, Eric “Sleepy” Floyd roared into action, scoring 29 points in the fourth quarter to propel the Warriors to victory. Game announcer Greg Papa, baffled and slightly hoarse, was moved to exclaim, “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/u1sVoWIhUKg?feature=shared&t=135\">Sleepy Floyd is Superman!\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It still stands today as the NBA postseason record for the most points scored by a player in a single quarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973835\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973835\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric ‘Sleepy’ Floyd enters the ‘Freaky Tales’ premiere at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Outside the Grand Lake last month, Sleepy Floyd seemed surprised and humbled that his achievement is now part of a Hollywood film. Calling \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> “a love song to Oakland,” the point guard, now 65 and living in his home state of North Carolina, remarked that “just to have it centered around that game, truly I’m just blessed and honored to be a part of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd, who in the same matchup against the Lakers also set the record for the most points scored in a half of a playoff game with 39, is portrayed in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> by Jay Ellis (\u003cem>Insecure, Top Gun: Maverick\u003c/em>). Without giving away too much, Sleepy Floyd becomes the star of the film’s climax, diverging drastically from real-life events, complete with supernatural samurai skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They made me look a lot cooler than I actually am,” Floyd said with a chuckle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973842\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ‘Freaky Tales’ cast, with Pedro Pascal and Jay Ellis at center, pose on the red carpet ahead of the Oakland premiere at the Grand Lake Theater on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Gilman punks’ beatdown, Danger Zone’s dominance, Sleepy Floyd’s fireworks — \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> makes clear to a nationwide moviegoing audience what Oakland has always known about itself: this is a place of amazing people, events and stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about Oakland on the red carpet at the Grand Lake premiere, Pedro Pascal put it simply: “It’s the raddest city in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Freaky Tales’ opens in wide release on Friday, April 4. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It was not your usual Wednesday night at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/grand-lake-theatre\">Grand Lake Theatre\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside Oakland’s movie palace in March, Hollywood actors made their way down the red carpet. Rap legends and punk OGs mingled beneath the marquee. Fans got on their tiptoes behind the line of TV cameras, jockeying for a glimpse of the film’s star, Pedro Pascal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Premieres at the Grand Lake are always exciting, but they’re extra special when the movie is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13974034/freaky-tales-movie-easter-eggs-locations-cameos-oakland\">filmed and set in Oakland\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, from screenwriting and directing team Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (\u003cem>Half Nelson, Captain Marvel\u003c/em>), is a revenge-fantasy flick that takes place in the year 1987. It’s filmed at Oakland landmarks, including the Oakland Coliseum, Giant Burger and the old Loard’s ice cream parlor on Coolidge and MacArthur. Marshawn Lynch and Rancid’s Tim Armstrong make cameos, as does Oakland rap icon \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/too-short\">Too Short\u003c/a>, who narrates and helped produce the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973843\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-114-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans crowd the sidewalk for the ‘Freaky Tales’ special screening at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973838\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-73-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedro Pascal poses on the red carpet before the ‘Freaky Tales’ premiere at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s full, in other words, of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13974034/freaky-tales-movie-easter-eggs-locations-cameos-oakland\">people and locations that carry name recognition for locals\u003c/a>. But nationally, Oakland has never quite received proper credit for its contributions to American culture at large. As rapper \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13921058/watch-rising-oakland-rap-star-symbas-tiny-desk-concert\">Symba\u003c/a>, who plays Too Short in the film, remarked on the red carpet, “People get their curations, their whole make-up, from things that we created here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>, then, is a movie about a town with a permanent underdog complex — and, fittingly, it’s told through different chapters, interconnected by Pascal’s performance as a hitman, that have underdogs as their heroes. A ragtag bunch of pacifist punk rockers beats up a crew of Nazi skinheads. Two teenage girls in a rap battle rip to shreds a rapper known for objectifying women. A basketball point guard comes alive for a mind-blowing fourth quarter in a historic comeback win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The freakiest thing of all? These are events that really happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973913\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_01151RC2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Ellis as Sleepy Floyd in ‘Freaky Tales,’ surrounded by other actors in a scene outside the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, the events depicted in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> involved people who are still around to witness what likely seemed impossible 38 years ago: a Hollywood movie with Oakland as its true star. Here are some of their real-life tales.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Punching Nazis: A punk love story\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first chapter of \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> follows young couple Tina (Ji-young Yoo) and Lucid (Jack Champion) as they navigate an increasing menace to their home-base punk collective of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/924-gilman\">924 Gilman\u003c/a>: neo-Nazi skinheads, who barge into shows, knock people to the ground, assault girls and women and destroy band equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After taking a vote led by security guard Greg (LeQuan Antonio Bennett), the punks decide to fight back. During an Operation Ivy show at the Berkeley club, the Nazi skinheads return, but this time they’re met by a wall of punks armed with bats, chains and trash can lids. Battered in the ensuing brawl, the defeated Nazis pile into their smashed and dented pickup truck and drive away to the El Cerrito hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973920\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SkinheadLineup-1920x1439.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of Nazi skinheads approaches punk club 924 Gilman in a scene from ‘Freaky Tales.’ \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973928\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GILMAN-143-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1987, skinheads caused trouble at punk shows around the country, including at 924 Gilman in Berkeley, pictured. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Minus a few details, the chapter is remarkably true to real-life events. Fleck and Boden had a good roadmap: the fight is recalled at length in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13239750/the-definitive-documentary-on-east-bay-punk-is-coming-pit-warning\">the East Bay punk documentary \u003cem>Turn It Around\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, directed by Gilman alum Corbett Redford, who came on as a technical advisor for the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Greg” in the film is based on George Stephens, a.k.a. George Hated, who in 1987 lived in West Oakland, sang in the band The Hated and served as head of security at Gilman. In an interview, Stephens, now 57, recalled walking out to the sidewalk that night and seeing Nondo, his friend who was also working security, lying in the gutter outside the front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“And there were three Nazis standing over him, one holding a bat. So I grabbed the bat out of the guy’s hands and hit the three of them, got Nondo up, and got him inside,” Stephens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On any other night, that might have been the end of it. But just like in the film, the punks at Gilman had vowed to fight, and emptied into the street. Even Dave Dictor, the singer of “peace-punk” band MDC, who were headlining that night, joined in wielding an aluminum crutch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More people came out, and it turned into an absolute mess,” said Stephens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973959\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-07-KQED-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Stephens today, pictured in Alameda on April 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kamala Parks, who co-founded Gilman and drummed in several bands, remembered the nuanced deliberations about retaliating against Nazis among volunteers at the club, whose door rules stated “No Fighting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of folks who had previously taken a more pacifist standpoint had been convinced to fight back, mainly because skinhead violence had gotten more pronounced,” she said. (Parks herself had been punched in the face by a skinhead during a previous melee across town.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the brawl outside Gilman, the punks had won. They even chased the Nazis across the street and smashed up their pickup truck before the skinheads sped away, fleeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1025px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1025\" height=\"1319\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_.jpg 1025w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_-800x1029.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_-1020x1313.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_-160x206.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Kamla.Flyer_.George.Rules_-768x988.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Clockwise from upper left) Kamala Parks drums with Cringer at 924 Gilman in 1990; the flyer for the show at Gilman on the night of the Nazi brawl, May 17, 1987; George Hated sings with the Hated at Gilman in 1992; rules posted at Gilman’s front door. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My heart was pounding right out of my chest,” Dave Dictor, MDC’s singer, recalled in \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29363293-mdc\">his 2016 autobiography\u003c/a>. “Right after the battle it was time to get on stage and sing, but I was too numb to be able to change gears to talk about it from the stage. As I remember, we just plowed through the set.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those mixed emotions were real, Parks said. “There was euphoria, but there’s dread, because you don’t know what’s going to happen next. You don’t know if they’re going to come back with a bigger group of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13973991 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-05-KQED-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamala Parks today, pictured in downtown Oakland on April 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parks stayed on edge for a few weeks afterward. Amazingly, the Nazis never came back to Gilman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Stephens points out, though, they never went away for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, we live in America,” Stephens said. “It’s not surprising that the Proud Boys are back. That fringe has never really gone away in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/250401-VARIOUS-FREAKY-TALES-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">924 Gilman St. in Berkeley on April 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>You want a bit of danger, step into my zone\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Ryan will tell you, he’s been pitching me a version of \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> for literally 15 years,” said Anna Boden, the film’s co-writer and co-director, in an interview. Her filmmaking partner, Ryan Fleck, grew up in Oakland; Boden in Massachusetts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And he grew up listening to Too Short’s music and I did not. And so I was listening to Too Short’s music for the first time as a grown woman. And it was, like, a \u003cem>very\u003c/em> different experience for me than it was for Ryan,” she said of Short’s explicit and often misogynist subject material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1208px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973969\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1208\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB.jpg 1208w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB-800x396.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB-1020x505.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Short.FreddyB-768x380.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1208px) 100vw, 1208px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Too Short on the cover of his single ‘Freaky Tales,’ circa 1988; at right, Short’s early rap partner Freddy B in 1992. \u003ccite>(Dangerous Music/Serious Sounds)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But one song stuck out for Boden. In “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfSYngzHOsY\">Don’t Fight the Feelin’\u003c/a>” from the 1989 album \u003cem>Life Is… Too Short\u003c/em>, Short trades verses with a female rap duo called Danger Zone, who insult his bankroll, poke fun at his bad breath and make repeated references to his size below the belt: “Do they call you Short because of your height or your width? / Diss me boy, I’ll hang your balls from a cliff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boden knew she had found her entry to the story. “Hearing him allow himself to be taken down by these young women was kind of mind-blowing to me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the film, Barbie and Entice from Danger Zone are approached by Lenny G (the rapper Stunnaman02, in a role based on Short’s early rap partner \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop/timeline#too-short-and-freddy-b-start-making-handmade-tapes\">Freddy B\u003c/a>) to battle Short onstage at the Town’s hottest nightclub, Sweet Jimmie’s. Dubious of the proposition, but tired of being mistreated at their day job scooping ice cream, they accept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973921\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/FT_00825RC2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Dominique Thorne and Normani as Danger Zone’s Barbie and Entice in a scene from ‘Freaky Tales.’ \u003ccite>(Lionsgate Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The song unfolds in a thrilling scene, verse for verse, with actor and rapper Symba portraying Short’s hunched gait and coy taunting. (Symba asked Short for pointers, “and he sent me four videos, and was like, ‘Just embody this, and you’ll be alright,’” he said.) Danger Zone, meanwhile, keep coming back with heat, and win over the crowd. By the end, Short daps up the girls, conceding a draw, if not defeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, “Don’t Fight the Feelin’” came together in the studio, not on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Tamra Goins is a talent agent in L.A. But in 1987, she was Entice — the 15-year-old East Oakland girl who linked up with her cousin, Bailey Brown, to form Danger Zone. They’d met Short through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13934715/kimmie-fresh-real-freaky-tales-oakland\">the female rap pioneer Kimmie Fresh\u003c/a> years before recording “Don’t Fight the Feelin’,” she said in an interview. Danger Zone had even been signed to Short’s Dangerous Music label, which released their song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvMjOBASvbc\">Jailbait\u003c/a>,” a blunt warning to underage girls about predatory men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 944px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973922\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"944\" height=\"808\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone.jpg 944w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone-800x685.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/DangerZone-768x657.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fifteen-year-old cousins Bailey Brown and Tamra Goins, a.k.a. Barbie and Entice of Danger Zone, pictured in 1988. \u003ccite>(Dangerous Music)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Short’s manager, Randy Austin, pitched the concept for “Don’t Fight the Feelin’” to be included on Short’s next full-length album, Goins was hesitant, just like her character in the movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re terrified, right? Because one, we’re kids. Two, Short was known to call people head doctors. I think I was still a virgin! So we just were terrified of what he could possibly say,” Goins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laying down the track at engineer Al Eaton’s One Little Indian studio in Richmond — essentially Eaton’s living room — Goins and Brown came for Short so viciously that the men present, like rappers Spice 1 and Rappin’ 4-Tay, kept laughing and ruining the take. “They’re running out of the house, cracking up, laughing,” said Goins. “We can’t even get through it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973836\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-33-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Co-director Ryan Fleck high-fives Tamra Goins, a.k.a. Entice from Danger Zone, ahead of the ‘Freaky Tales’ premiere at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Short was similarly unprepared for Danger Zone’s verses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made the song, I did my two verses. And it was supposed to be about an old dude pullin’ up in his car flirting with these young girls,” Short explained on Nick Cannon’s \u003cem>We Playin’ Spades\u003c/em> podcast. “My verse was kinda nice. And they came back rippin’ me to shreds!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Short was rattled, but “I went home and listened to it, and I was like, ‘Damn, this is kind of cool … let me go back and talk a lotta shit about \u003cem>them\u003c/em>, and it’ll be a crazy song!’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After redoing his verses to match Danger Zone’s venom and adding Rappin’ 4-Tay to the track, the song grew to a ridiculous length of over 8 minutes. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop/timeline#kimmie-fresh-answers-too-shorts-freaky-tales-with-the-girls-story\">Kimmie Fresh had released her own eight-minute diss track to Short\u003c/a>, but this was men and women on the same song, a battle of the sexes on wax. Short knew it was gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1213\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-800x485.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-1020x619.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-768x466.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-1536x932.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-1943659116-1920x1164.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danger Zone’s Tamra Goins (Entice) at far left, and Bailey Brown (Barbie) third from left, in a group photo of the cast and crew of ‘Freaky Tales’ at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2024. \u003ccite>(Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the song’s legendary status, Danger Zone never performed “Don’t Fight the Feelin’” live onstage with Short, as depicted in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>. (Goins and Short have done the song without Brown a handful of times at cruises and sorority events.) Brown, who later traveled the world as a dancer for MC Hammer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@getaroundwithbaileybrown\">currently lives in Ghana\u003c/a> most of the year, scriptwriting and producing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 53, Goins is proud of the song’s longevity among fans like Shaquille O’Neal, who lovingly \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/APrhXcftYPs?feature=shared&t=204\">goaded her into performing it on \u003cem>Sway’s Universe\u003c/em> in 2011\u003c/a>. But it comes with a dash of concern for her former 15-year-old self, rapping so brazenly amid the older pimps and players that inspired “Jailbait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I’ll look back at the lyrics and I go, ‘Oh!’” she said. “I’m a mom now. I’ll be like, ‘And why was your name \u003cem>Entice\u003c/em>?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1427px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973926\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1427\" height=\"1884\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987.jpg 1427w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-800x1056.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-1020x1347.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-160x211.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-768x1014.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/SleepyFloyd.May101987-1163x1536.jpg 1163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1427px) 100vw, 1427px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden State Warriors’ Eric ‘Sleepy’ Floyd drives to the basket past Los Angeles Lakers’ James Worthy during their playoff game at the Oakland Arena on May 10, 1987. Floyd scored an NBA playoff record-setting 29 points in the fourth quarter, 12 field goals in the same quarter and 39 points in a half, to lead the Warriors to a 129-121 victory over the Lakers. \u003ccite>(Gary Reyes/Oakland Tribune via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A warrior in more ways than one\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>’ final chapter revolves around a story so well-known that it’s in the record books. In Game 4 of the 1987 NBA playoffs, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/warriors\">Warriors\u003c/a> were down 3-0 against the Lakers and trailed 102-88 going into the fourth quarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of nowhere, Eric “Sleepy” Floyd roared into action, scoring 29 points in the fourth quarter to propel the Warriors to victory. Game announcer Greg Papa, baffled and slightly hoarse, was moved to exclaim, “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/u1sVoWIhUKg?feature=shared&t=135\">Sleepy Floyd is Superman!\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It still stands today as the NBA postseason record for the most points scored by a player in a single quarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973835\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973835\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-7-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric ‘Sleepy’ Floyd enters the ‘Freaky Tales’ premiere at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Outside the Grand Lake last month, Sleepy Floyd seemed surprised and humbled that his achievement is now part of a Hollywood film. Calling \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> “a love song to Oakland,” the point guard, now 65 and living in his home state of North Carolina, remarked that “just to have it centered around that game, truly I’m just blessed and honored to be a part of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd, who in the same matchup against the Lakers also set the record for the most points scored in a half of a playoff game with 39, is portrayed in \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> by Jay Ellis (\u003cem>Insecure, Top Gun: Maverick\u003c/em>). Without giving away too much, Sleepy Floyd becomes the star of the film’s climax, diverging drastically from real-life events, complete with supernatural samurai skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They made me look a lot cooler than I actually am,” Floyd said with a chuckle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973842\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/20250319_FREAKYTALES_GC-110-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ‘Freaky Tales’ cast, with Pedro Pascal and Jay Ellis at center, pose on the red carpet ahead of the Oakland premiere at the Grand Lake Theater on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Gilman punks’ beatdown, Danger Zone’s dominance, Sleepy Floyd’s fireworks — \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em> makes clear to a nationwide moviegoing audience what Oakland has always known about itself: this is a place of amazing people, events and stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about Oakland on the red carpet at the Grand Lake premiere, Pedro Pascal put it simply: “It’s the raddest city in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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For the Warriors’ Muslim Heritage Night, the burritos will be the first halal dish served inside Chase Center. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of El Halal Amigos)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s been a month of milestones for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/golden-state-warriors\">Golden State Warriors\u003c/a>, who in recent weeks have seen Steph Curry swish his \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6202940/2025/03/14/steph-curry-warriors-3-point-record-legacy/\">4,000th three-pointer\u003c/a> and then, just two nights later, watched as Steve Kerr became the team’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/warriors-steve-kerr-wins-record-f0741722c6530099cc7240fb69bc8601\">all-time winningest head coach\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later this week, the Chase Center will mark another, more delicious breakthrough. For the first time ever, Warriors fans will be able to purchase halal food inside the arena — hefty, well-packed burritos from San Jose’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/elhalalamigos/?hl=en\">El Halal Amigos\u003c/a>, to be specific. The halal-friendly burritos will be featured during the Dubs’ game against the Denver Nuggets on Friday, April 4, which the team has designated as its fourth annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1441594320597455&id=100042407024320&set=a.382933859796845\">Muslim Heritage Night\u003c/a>, in collaboration with food festival organizer \u003ca href=\"https://www.halalfest.com/\">HalalFest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big step right now in a most vital time — to be a Palestinian, to be a Muslim, and go into a very popular, brand new stadium and be recognized,” El Halal Amigos chef-owner Hisham Abdelfattah says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the food, the event will also include official Warriors-branded Muslim Heritage Night T-shirts, opportunities for kids from local Muslim communities to high-five the players as they’re coming out of the tunnel, and a designated prayer room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973873\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972.jpg\" alt=\"Fans cheer and dance on the jumbotron at Chase Center during a Warriors game.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Warriors fans cheer and dance on the jumbotron during the 2024 edition of Muslim Heritage Night. \u003ccite>(Meriam Salem, courtesy of HalalFest)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Getting to serve halal food to young Warriors fans at the game feels particularly meaningful to Abdelfattah, who says he often felt left out as a Muslim kid growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to sports games my whole life with my dad,” he says. “I remember being at Niner games, A’s games when I was seven, eight, nine years old, and I would only get to eat popcorn or soda. I never got the really cool burgers; I never got to have that hot dog experience. It sucked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salah_times\">call to prayer\u003c/a> came during the game, Abdelfattah and his father would just have to pray out on the concourse in front of everybody. He still remembers how uncomfortable that felt: “At the time, it was very weird for people to see that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It feels like a real landmark in representation, then, for Abdelfattah to be able to sell his burritos (\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DHw2cCyytiM/?hl=en\">via pre-purchase\u003c/a>) at Friday’s game, and for the Warriors to provide a place where Muslim fans can pray in private — even if it is only for one night. In the past, the only \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/bayareahalalfoodies/posts/1553404965345854/\">viable food options\u003c/a> for halal-keeping Chase Center attendees have been located outside the arena itself (including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13962220/fikscue-best-indonesian-texas-barbecue-smoked-brisket-alameda\">Fikscue\u003c/a>, the forthcoming Indo-Tex halal barbecue spot in Thrive City). For Friday night’s Muslim Heritage Night promotion, the concessions team will also offer a halal chicken option at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/vendor/modelo-cantina/\">Modelo Cantina\u003c/a> restaurant in the Upper Concourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973874\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7300.jpg\" alt=\"Two young women of Arabic descent hold Golden State Warriors–branded Hello Kitty plushies inside a sports arena\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7300.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7300-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7300-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7300-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7300-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7300-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7300-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two young Warriors fans hold Warriors–branded Hello Kitty plushies at last year’s Muslim Heritage Night event, which coincided with Hello Kitty Night. \u003ccite>(Meriam Salem, courtesy of HalalFest)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Muslim Heritage Night has grown steadily since it started during the peak of the pandemic. “Last year, over 600 people from the Muslim community came,” HalalFest founder Irfan Rydhan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='news_12033099,arts_13958466,arts_13962220']\u003c/span>\u003c/span>A handful of tickets for this year’s event, ranging from $110 to $320 each, are still available by emailing HalalFest at info@halalfest.com. Food tickets need to be purchased separately through the same email address — $23 for a burrito (steak or chicken), or $20 each when purchasing four or more. Each order will come with a side of chips and El Halal Amigos’ signature Nar (Arabic for “hellfire”) hot sauce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, Abdelfattah expects to wrap between 100 and 200 burritos for Friday’s game. The dream, he says, would be to eventually bring El Halal Amigos — and halal food, more broadly — to Chase Center on a long-term basis. (Indeed, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGp_uRQCq7M\">similar collab\u003c/a> with the San Jose Sharks culminated in a permanent El Halal Amigos concessions stand at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sapcenter.com/plan-your-visit/food-beverage\">SAP Center\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was growing up, it was just very unheard of to see halal food in cool places,” Abdelfattah says. “And now I can’t believe that I’m the one serving it. That’s cool, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This year’s \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nba.com/warriors/tickets/group-theme-nights-and-giveaways\">\u003ci>Muslim Heritage Night\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> will take place during the Warriors vs. Nuggets game at the Chase Center at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 4. To take part in the promotion, purchase tickets to the game by emailing info@halalfest.com. Pre-purchase El Halal Amigos food tickets via the same email address by no later than April 2. After ordering, customers will receive instructions on where to pick up their food during the game.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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For the first time ever, Warriors fans will be able to purchase halal food inside the arena — hefty, well-packed burritos from San Jose’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/elhalalamigos/?hl=en\">El Halal Amigos\u003c/a>, to be specific. The halal-friendly burritos will be featured during the Dubs’ game against the Denver Nuggets on Friday, April 4, which the team has designated as its fourth annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1441594320597455&id=100042407024320&set=a.382933859796845\">Muslim Heritage Night\u003c/a>, in collaboration with food festival organizer \u003ca href=\"https://www.halalfest.com/\">HalalFest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big step right now in a most vital time — to be a Palestinian, to be a Muslim, and go into a very popular, brand new stadium and be recognized,” El Halal Amigos chef-owner Hisham Abdelfattah says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the food, the event will also include official Warriors-branded Muslim Heritage Night T-shirts, opportunities for kids from local Muslim communities to high-five the players as they’re coming out of the tunnel, and a designated prayer room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13973873\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972.jpg\" alt=\"Fans cheer and dance on the jumbotron at Chase Center during a Warriors game.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/warriorsnight_halalfest_2024-nowatermark-7972-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Warriors fans cheer and dance on the jumbotron during the 2024 edition of Muslim Heritage Night. \u003ccite>(Meriam Salem, courtesy of HalalFest)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Getting to serve halal food to young Warriors fans at the game feels particularly meaningful to Abdelfattah, who says he often felt left out as a Muslim kid growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If the Bay Area was an arena, and rap music was the sport, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p_lo/?hl=en\">P-Lo\u003c/a> — the Filipino American rapper-producer phenom — would certainly qualify as a perennial All-Star.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since splashing onto the scene over a decade ago as a founding member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938026/hbk-gang-iamsu-jay-anthony-p-lo-sage-gemini\">HBK Gang\u003c/a>, P-Lo has gone on to establish himself as one of the Bay’s most multidimensional talents. He’s already accumulated the kind of stats that will ensure his rightful place in the Hall of Game: production credits on hit singles, performances at arenas and, most recently, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DCabtyZRDaA/?hl=en\">commercial with 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 12, P-Lo will once again don his Bay Area uniform: His latest album, \u003cem>For The Soil\u003c/em>, is slated to drop the same week that NBA All-Star Weekend arrives in San Francisco. More than ever, he’s locked in and bringing the rest of the Bay along for a victory lap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me to even get to this spot has been a journey. The music industry can be daunting, especially coming from the Bay,” says P-Lo. “Every Bay Area artist is truly rooted in their community. I just want to be able to provide whatever I can. Mentorship, helping other artists navigate this. It’s extremely important to me that other artists and producers and songwriters and creatives in the Bay are doing well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13971359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1139px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13971359\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/g21.jpg\" alt=\"A black-and-white photo of a multicultural group of hip-hop artists gathered on a basketball court. \" width=\"1139\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/g21.jpg 1139w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/g21-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/g21-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/g21-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/g21-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1139px) 100vw, 1139px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">P-Lo (center) featured many Bay Area artists on his new album, ‘For the Soil,’ including Larry June, YMTK, Kamaiyah, G-Eazy, thuy, Saweetie and LaRussell (left to right). \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Golden State Entertainment)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A landmark collaboration with San Francisco label Empire and the Golden State Warriors’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/goldenstateent/\">Golden State Entertainment\u003c/a>, the nine-track project is the first of its kind for the championship-bedecked basketball franchise. Having launched their music and entertainment branch in 2022 (the only such venture in the sports industry), the Warriors recruited P-Lo as their point guard to orchestrate the Bay Area’s distinctive style on wax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘The Soil’ represents the Bay Area,” says Cal-A, a Bay Area music producer who works closely with P-Lo. “There’s a lot of talk about teams leaving Oakland, and the culture and energy of the Bay leaving. Nah, we’re bringing that soil back to Chase. That spirit. And the groundskeeper is P-Lo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The album’s namesake and concept was largely derived from another popular Bay Area rapper and lifelong Warriors superfan, E-40, who once declared, “I’m from the soil where rappers be gettin’ they lingo from” on the 2006 hyphy anthem “Tell Me When To Go.” In homage to Uncle Earl, who is featured on the album, P-Lo — and many Baydestrians — have adopted the phrase as a rallying cry. It’s a way of preserving a sense of home. Soil, after all, requires a certain nurturing. And if cared for, it yields a bountiful supply that can feed generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not P-Lo’s first time repping the Bay Area through basketball. The former junior college hooper has formally worked with the dynastic Golden State franchise going back to 2018, when he first started performing at half-time shows. He has also served as the team’s cultural ambassador for Filipino Heritage Night on multiple occasions. But \u003cem>For The Soil\u003c/em> and P-Lo’s events for NBA All-Star Weekend are taking that collaborative dynamic to the next level — one that no NBA organization has executed in tandem with a rapper before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“P-Lo is already woven into the Warriors culture as a legitimate, authentic fan,” says David Kelly, a Warriors executive who founded Golden State Entertainment. “We already play his music at games. [E-]40 is already courtside. This is organic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/qXEqe4mGcHc?si=C7GH5cfB5ccVIg_o\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team and Stunna, as P-Lo calls himself, announced the album in November 2024 to much fanfare. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DCMsDkjv8OR/\">promotional video\u003c/a>, P-Lo (dressed as an arena custodian) rolls a wheelbarrow teeming with soil into an empty Chase Center in San Francisco. “All-Star is just around the corner,” he says, adding that he needs to get to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, he and Golden State teased a clip from the album’s first single, “Players Holiday ’25,” which features a roster of Bay Area ballers. Larry June, Kamaiyah, Saweetie, LaRussell, G-Eazy, thủy and YMTK each supply their lyrical game with references to jump shots, the We Believe Warriors, Oracle Arena, Moses Moody and Draymond Green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The song’s video was filmed at the historic Cameron House court in San Francisco’s Chinatown (which, by the way, has been deemed one of the world’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.courtsoftheworld.com/blog/must-hoop-cameron-houses-upper-deck-court/\">“Must Hoop” destinations\u003c/a> by the International Basketball Federation), and includes an all-time list of Bay Area playmakers who appear in the background — including Clyde Carson, Dregs One and Oopz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A remake of the iconic 1999 song “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/aQ1aEaRyR5A?si=dsw2hfazRtjg0qUd\">Players Holiday\u003c/a>” — from Bay Area supergroup The Whole Damn Yey, which featured a powerhouse lineup of Too $hort, Ant Banks, Mac Mall, E-40, and Rappin’ 4-Tay — P-Lo’s version delivers an updated Bay Area vibe with added basketball visuals in anticipation of the popular NBA event. [aside postid='arts_13969956']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the first time since 2000 that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13969956/nba-all-star-game-different-bay-area-oakland-san-francisco\">NBA will bring its All-Star festivities to the Bay\u003c/a> — a region which has undergone seismic economic and social upheaval in the past 25 years. And through it all, P-Lo has kept the Bay’s idiosyncratic culture and sound at the forefront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to make it so that when people come out here, there’s a sound for the experience,” says Cal-A. “\u003cem>For The Soil\u003c/em> is the first of its kind. An NBA pro sports team reaching out to local musicians and local talent to create a soundbite of the region. It’s a representative soundtrack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having worked on the project for the past half-year, P-Lo and his “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SeZHOqSsZA\">same squad, same squad, same squad\u003c/a>” are more than ready to deliver for All-Star Weekend. Following the release of “Players Holiday ’25,” a gang of additional singles have arrived or are on the way — with tracks featuring an intergenerational cast of the Bay’s biggest playmakers. Appearances include \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/e-40\">E-40\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/too-short\">Too $hort\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/goapele\">Goapele\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938228/drake-ovrkast-oakland-producer-dogs-scary-hours\">Ovrkast.\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/rexx-life-raj\">Rexx Life Raj\u003c/a>, ALLBLACK, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13934803/1100-himself-oakland-rapper-thizzler\">1100 Himself\u003c/a>, 24KGoldn, Lil Bean and more, making it arguably one of the most regionally stacked albums to come out of the Bay Area in some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/yMUVGKkzTWw?si=4MFPnG3DRSdN-oki\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of his album roll out, P-Lo also teamed up with Urban Sprouts to work on a community garden with volunteers earlier this month (literally doing it “for the soil”). He also appeared at Santa Clara University’s basketball gym and spoke to the team. Up next, has a performance scheduled on the San Francisco Bay Ferry on Feb. 8, and he’s partnering up with a Nike-sponsored Kobe Bryant sneaker event in San Francisco’s Chinatown. To be sure, there’s plenty afoot for the savvy baller leading up to All-Star Weekend. He’ll even play in the NBA’s annual celebrity game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As P-Lo croons in “Lights Out,” the album’s second single, it’s once again the Bay Area’s time to show the basketball world what we’re all about, “not now, but right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just looking forward for everyone to come to the Bay [for All-Star Weekend] to understand how special and unique we are,” he says. “Whether that’s through the food, through the people, through the community, through the music. With this album, I want everyone to get a grasp of the real Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>P-Lo will perform music from ‘For The Soil’ on the San Francisco Bay Ferry at 4 p.m. on Sat., Feb. 8. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/p-los-function-on-the-ferry-tickets-1217366789839\">RSVP here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The album will be available on all streaming platforms on Wed., Feb. 12, with an accompanying Nike event in Chinatown that same day. He will close out the week with a performance at Chase Center’s Thrive City (1725 3rd St., San Francisco) on Thurs., Feb. 13.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>There aren’t many hoopers in NBA folklore like Juan Toscano-Anderson. The former Golden State Warriors champion and proud East Oakland representative is one of the only Afro Mexican American players to ever suit up in the Association’s history — and the sole Mexican citizen to hoist an NBA title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An alumnus of Castro Valley High School, Toscano-Anderson (endearingly known as JTA) has long been a beloved figure in the Bay Area basketball community. But his popularity in Mexico is something else entirely: He’s one of the country’s most prized hoopers, with a celestial status that radiates superstardom below the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His cult following is evident in the newest season of \u003ca href=\"https://gleague.nba.com/videos/the-break?video=m-c3GfI9xpQ\">\u003ci>The Break,\u003c/i>\u003c/a> a docuseries that follows three players in the NBA’s G League as they navigate the complexities of professional basketball at different points in their careers. Toscano-Anderson’s return to his family’s homeland — his mother’s side of the family immigrated to the U.S. from Michoacán in the 1960s — comprises a major storyline in the series, which premiered on YouTube at the start of this past basketball season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW5shf31Sb8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toscano-Anderson first moved to Mexico City to pursue hoops after he went undrafted out of Marquette University in 2015. At the time, Mexico provided his only shot at eventually reaching his NBA dream. From there, he earned his way onto Mexico’s national team, and soon after became the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional’s Most Valuable Player and a two-time champion. His hustle gained him a roster spot with the Golden State Warriors’ G League team in 2019, where he became a fan favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a decade later, after contributions with Golden State, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Utah Jazz, Toscano-Anderson landed back in Mexico City as a veteran captain of the NBA G League’s Mexico City Capitanes. The team, which is the only Mexican-owned franchise to compete in any U.S.-based league, signed Toscano-Anderson at the start of the 2023-24 season, generating national fanfare in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958425\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13958425 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/game-4-dec-23-juan-19-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a basketball player points to the crowd during a basketball game\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/game-4-dec-23-juan-19-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/game-4-dec-23-juan-19-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/game-4-dec-23-juan-19-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/game-4-dec-23-juan-19-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/game-4-dec-23-juan-19-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/game-4-dec-23-juan-19-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/game-4-dec-23-juan-19-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/game-4-dec-23-juan-19-1920x2880.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Toscano-Anderson’s return to Mexico City was met with a national excitement. \u003ccite>(Trecy Wendy Wuattier)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Being able to embrace and indulge in my culture again, and being a representative of Mexican basketball and helping the sport grow [is] a highlight in itself,” Toscano-Anderson told me in a Zoom interview earlier this year. “I want to be that bridge, that pipeline to give Mexican Americans [a chance] when they can’t go straight to the NBA. If I didn’t have a Mexican passport, then I don’t know if I’d even be in the NBA. Having that gave me an opportunity to continue to play basketball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For an entire season, Toscano-Anderson grappled with an emotional homecoming in Mexico City, amid the birth of his son and the general uncertainty of playing in the NBA’s minor league system. It was a period filled with ups and downs, including Toscano-Anderson’s brief return to the NBA with the Sacramento Kings. (He concluded an injury-stunted season with the Capitanes.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eduardo Villalpando, a Mexican YouTuber, filmed \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjrVYNQM9X0\">Toscano-Anderson’s debut game at Arena CDMX\u003c/a> in Azcapotzalco. “He’s like a superhero; he’s more famous than [president] Andrés Manuel López Obrador,” Villalpando said in his recording.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13958429 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bts-game-1-22-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a film director and photographer pose on a basketball court in between filming\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bts-game-1-22-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bts-game-1-22-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bts-game-1-22-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bts-game-1-22-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bts-game-1-22-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bts-game-1-22-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bts-game-1-22-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bts-game-1-22-1920x2880.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Sharp (left) and Ryan Pham (right) directed and filmed ‘The Break.’ \u003ccite>(Trecy Wendy Wuattier)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During our Zoom call, Toscano-Anderson explained how he felt during that game: “I’m going to represent my family, represent my country, and represent my son. 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I want to give other people who look like me — Afro Latinos, Mexican Americans — I want to give them opportunities similar to mine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003cem>The Break’\u003c/em>s director \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tsharp94/\">Taylor Sharp\u003c/a> — a North Carolina-raised, Brooklyn-based filmmaker and avid basketball fan — Toscano-Anderson’s story is unlike any other player he has ever documented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was surprised to see so many Toscano jerseys in the crowd, 16,000 fans chanting his name [on opening night in Mexico City],” Sharp said. “He’s on a very short list of successful players [with Mexican heritage], and watching him play on ESPN in Mexico, that was a rare moment [for Mexican fans] to have one of their superstars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharp chose to focus closely on Toscano-Anderson’s connection to the country across multiple episodes, including “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW5shf31Sb8\">El Capitán\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSrsfN6XKjo\">The Return\u003c/a>.” Later in the series, Toscano-Anderson’s Northern California visit is filmed, as well as his final moments of the season as he interacts with \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv5lYgftXEk\">jubilant Mexican fans\u003c/a> who came out to meet him during a road game in New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever follows for JTA remains to be seen; he hasn’t yet announced his next steps or whether he’ll remain in Mexico City. 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(He concluded an injury-stunted season with the Capitanes.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eduardo Villalpando, a Mexican YouTuber, filmed \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjrVYNQM9X0\">Toscano-Anderson’s debut game at Arena CDMX\u003c/a> in Azcapotzalco. “He’s like a superhero; he’s more famous than [president] Andrés Manuel López Obrador,” Villalpando said in his recording.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13958429 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bts-game-1-22-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a film director and photographer pose on a basketball court in between filming\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bts-game-1-22-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bts-game-1-22-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bts-game-1-22-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bts-game-1-22-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bts-game-1-22-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bts-game-1-22-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bts-game-1-22-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bts-game-1-22-1920x2880.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Sharp (left) and Ryan Pham (right) directed and filmed ‘The Break.’ \u003ccite>(Trecy Wendy Wuattier)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During our Zoom call, Toscano-Anderson explained how he felt during that game: “I’m going to represent my family, represent my country, and represent my son. I want to serve as an ambassador for Mexico and Mexican basketball. I want to give other people who look like me — Afro Latinos, Mexican Americans — I want to give them opportunities similar to mine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003cem>The Break’\u003c/em>s director \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tsharp94/\">Taylor Sharp\u003c/a> — a North Carolina-raised, Brooklyn-based filmmaker and avid basketball fan — Toscano-Anderson’s story is unlike any other player he has ever documented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was surprised to see so many Toscano jerseys in the crowd, 16,000 fans chanting his name [on opening night in Mexico City],” Sharp said. “He’s on a very short list of successful players [with Mexican heritage], and watching him play on ESPN in Mexico, that was a rare moment [for Mexican fans] to have one of their superstars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharp chose to focus closely on Toscano-Anderson’s connection to the country across multiple episodes, including “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW5shf31Sb8\">El Capitán\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSrsfN6XKjo\">The Return\u003c/a>.” Later in the series, Toscano-Anderson’s Northern California visit is filmed, as well as his final moments of the season as he interacts with \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv5lYgftXEk\">jubilant Mexican fans\u003c/a> who came out to meet him during a road game in New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever follows for JTA remains to be seen; he hasn’t yet announced his next steps or whether he’ll remain in Mexico City. But it’s evident that the baller will continue uplifting Mexico (and the Bay Area) as part of his storied legacy. For fans who don’t often see themselves represented in the world of professional basketball, seeing Toscano-Anderson’s ascension is more important than any final score.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>All six episodes of ‘The Break’ can be streamed on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@nbagleague\">NBA G League’s official YouTube channel\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In what might be the most heartbreaking, multi-league exodus in modern sports history, the Bay Area — and in particular, Oakland — has recently suffered more than its fair share of hometown woes. Between \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39908731/oakland-sacramento-meetings-moves-john-fisher\">the bumbling soullessness of Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher\u003c/a>, the departure of the Raiders and the not-so-distant transplanting of the Golden State Warriors in recent seasons, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955419/oakland-as-athletics-booker-ruiz-wristbandgate\">fanbases have experienced no shortage of rage and disappointment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s response? To gather an eclectic and boisterous assemblage of fans and community members, and organize with a grassroots ferocity rarely seen in the sports world. The past few months have seen the Bay creating new teams — separate from the level of the Giants, 49ers, Warriors and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13957833/golden-state-valkyries-chase-center-wnba-block-party-kehlani-e-40-p-lo\">the newly minted Valkyries\u003c/a> — garnering independent support and marching downfield with an unwavering appreciation for the underdog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upshot is that, this summer, there are more ways than ever to enjoy an affordable sports outing with your family — and, in doing so, proving that Bay Area sports fans are resilient and loyal. Here’s a brief rundown on how to support the Bay’s most exciting teams (without putting any money in Fisher’s feeble hands).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956942\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956942\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ballers1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a baseball player shows off his Oakland Ballers jersey at a local tryout\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ballers1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ballers1-800x573.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ballers1-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ballers1-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ballers1-768x550.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ballers1-1536x1100.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ballers1-2048x1466.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ballers1-1920x1375.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Ballers recently held a tryout for local players to showcase their skills at Laney College. \u003ccite>(Oakland Ballers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oakland.ballers/?hl=en\">\u003cb>Oakland Ballers\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In search of a locally rooted organization committed to preserving Oakland’s storied baseball identity? Look no further than\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968536/new-oakland-ballers-baseball-team-aims-to-keep-the-sport-in-the-city\"> the B’s — short for Ballers\u003c/a> — whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938668/meet-the-designer-for-the-bs-oaklands-new-homegrown-baseball-team\">snazzy, historically-forward logo\u003c/a> and uniforms harken back to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OaklandBallers/status/1781387456836981054\">the city’s prolific baseball legacy among shipyard workers and Black unions\u003c/a>. The brand new team will play at Raimondi Park in West Oakland and compete in the Pioneer League — an independent collection of minor league franchises with no Major League Baseball affiliations. Though their season doesn’t start until late May, the organization has already hit a home run by signing \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kelsie_whitmore/?hl=en\">the league’s first-ever female pitcher, Kelsie Whitmore\u003c/a>. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://uspst.clappit.com/tickets-oakland-ballers/showProductList.html\">Tickets here\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956939\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956939\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JT401019-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a group of women soccer players celebrate after a goal is scored\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JT401019-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JT401019-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JT401019-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JT401019-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JT401019-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JT401019-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JT401019-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JT401019-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay FC players celebrate after a goal. The NWSL is considered among the best leagues in the world. \u003ccite>(Bay FC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wearebayfc/?hl=en\">\u003cb>Bay FC\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We’re witnessing the largest surge for women’s sports in history — and we can be proud that the Bay Area is at its forefront. In addition to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963547/wnba-team-in-the-bay-a-slam-dunk-for-bay-area-basketball\">the WNBA’s announcement of a Golden State expansion franchise\u003c/a> in 2025, the region scored extra points by introducing their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980330/a-new-pro-womens-soccer-team-kicks-off-in-the-bay\">newest women’s soccer team\u003c/a>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wearebayfc/?hl=en\">Bay FC\u003c/a>, who made a splash by signing six-time African Women’s Footballer of the Year, Asisat Oshoala. Their \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/39585552/nwsl-new-nike-kits-laying-foundation-commercial-growth\">Nike-designed kits and Old English crest\u003c/a> have elicited much excitement, and the schedule promises a variety of celebratory nights, including Pride and Latino Heritage. The team’s inaugural season is already underway as the newest members of the National Women’s Soccer League, which \u003cem>The Guardia\u003c/em>n recently dubbed “\u003ca href=\"https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2024/may/01/nwsl-commissioner-interview-us-soccer-expansion-value\">the world’s most innovative league\u003c/a>.” With home games costing as low as $13 at San Jose’s PayPal Park (a fun venue with the world’s largest outdoor bar), there’s no excuse for missing out on any summer kicks. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://bayfc.com/schedule/\">Tickets here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-579843848.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957862\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-579843848.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a gray and blue baseball uniform that reads 'Stockton' is in the middle of throwing the ball from somewhere in the infield\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-579843848.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-579843848-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-579843848-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-579843848-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-579843848-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stockton Ports shortstop Franklin Barreto throws to first base during the game between the Stockton Ports and the Bakersfield Blaze at Sam Lynn in Bakersfield, CA. \u003ccite>( David Dennis/Icon Sportswire/Corbis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/stocktonports/\">\u003cb>Stockton Ports\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not for meant for the casual bandwagoner, this sports excursion will require a day trip to Stockton. But, as the A’s official single-A affiliate, who have shown nothing but support to fans amid MLB’s failure to keep the green-and-gold in town, our neighboring franchise deserves some love. For years, the Ports have been overlooked as an out-of-market afterthought: Why watch minor leaguers when you have major leaguers nearby? Well, that reality has shifted: Why continue supporting a vapid owner when you have a friendly alternative nearby? Earlier this season, when Oakland sports fans held their own Fan Fest,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952437/oakland-as-fans-fest-jack-london-square-2024\"> the Ports became official sponsors\u003c/a> and provided donations to help make it happen. If that’s not the definition of being 10 toes down, I’m not sure what is. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.milb.com/stockton/schedule/2024-04\">Tickets here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2148930700.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957863\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2148930700.jpg\" alt=\"two soccer players sign a colorful flag for fans in the stands after winning a nighttime game\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2148930700.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2148930700-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2148930700-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2148930700-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2148930700-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neveal Hackshaw and Johnny Rodriguez of the Oakland Roots sign a flag for fans after the U.S. Open Cup third round game between the Oakland Roots and El Farolito on April 16, 2024 at Pioneer Stadium in Hayward, California. \u003ccite>(Doug Zimmerman/ISI Photos/USSF/Getty Images for USSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oaklandroots/?hl=en\">\u003cb>Oakland Roots\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most socially conscious squad in all of professional U.S. sports, the Roots have \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Are-the-Oakland-Roots-the-most-civic-minded-team-15661728.php\">put the community first since their 2018 formation in the Town\u003c/a>. Whether it’s collaborating with local artists and small businesses or cultivating a development team known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/project51o/\">Project 510\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961286/oakland-roots-pro-soccer-team-raises-nearly-2-million-in-first-4-days-of-crowdfunding\">crowdfunded club\u003c/a> (which includes Jason Kidd, Marshawn Lynch, G Eazy and Billie Joe Armstrong as well as everyday Bay Area sports fans as part-owners) have been all in on hometown pride. You’re just as likely to see one of your favorite rappers performing at halftime, or casually attending a game on AAPI Heritage or Town Biz Night. Meanwhile CSU East Bay’s Pioneer Stadium is gorgeous, providing sweeping views of the Bay Area as an extra benefit to whatever’s going on between the sidelines. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://seatgeek.com/oakland-roots-sc-tickets\">Tickets here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956937\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956937\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/cedwx-26693-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a woman soccer player jogs during warm ups before a game\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/cedwx-26693-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/cedwx-26693-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/cedwx-26693-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/cedwx-26693-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/cedwx-26693-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/cedwx-26693-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/cedwx-26693-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/cedwx-26693-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Soul have been heralded for their play on the field, and their style off the field. \u003ccite>(Oakland Soul SC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oaklandsoulsc/?hl=en\">\u003cb>Oakland Soul\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not to be outdone, the Soul are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915080/oakland-roots-soccer-club-to-start-new-amateur-womens-team\">the amateur women’s branch of the Roots\u003c/a> — with a growing buzz and fanbase of their own. Their funky, retro-inspired uniforms are worth snagging from Oaklandish. Currently, the team plays in the United Soccer League Network, with home games hosted at Merritt College, and will play one double header with the Roots at CSUEB. Unlike Bay FC, the Soul play in the USL W, a second-division women’s league one tier beneath the NWSL — in other words, the two leading women’s soccer teams of the region aren’t directly in competition with one another, so you can guiltlessly cheer on both at once. In 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/oakland-coliseum-roots-soul-soccer-teams-2025-officials-approve-deal/\">the Soul (along with the Roots) will be housed at the Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://seatgeek.com/oakland-soul-sc-tickets\">Tickets here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1328080443.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957864\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1328080443.jpg\" alt=\"Lionel Messi of Argentina holds a giant trophy while smiling surrounded by his team after winning the Copa America Brazil 2021.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1328080443.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1328080443-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1328080443-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1328080443-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1328080443-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lionel Messi of Argentina smiles with the trophy as he celebrates with teammates after winning the final of Copa America Brazil 2021 between Brazil and Argentina at Maracana Stadium on July 10, 2021 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. \u003ccite>(Buda Mendes/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/copaamerica/?hl=en\">\u003cb>Copa América\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This isn’t a \u003cem>team\u003c/em>, per se — it’s a global phenomenon. Every four years, the biggest soccer tournament in the Western Hemisphere takes place in rotating host nations throughout the Americas. This year, the United States has been selected as the home of the famed cup — and Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara has been deemed a national site for two games. With teams playing in cities across the country, Bay Area fans will be gifted with rare appearances from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela for the oldest soccer tournament in the world (yes, older than the World Cup itself). \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://copaamerica.com/entradas/\">Tickets here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956934\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956934\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/2023.06.10-22-LindsayBaloun-OaklandSpiders-_MG_00043--scaled.jpg\" alt=\"an ultimate frisbee player runs for a score with frisbee in hand\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/2023.06.10-22-LindsayBaloun-OaklandSpiders-_MG_00043--scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/2023.06.10-22-LindsayBaloun-OaklandSpiders-_MG_00043--800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/2023.06.10-22-LindsayBaloun-OaklandSpiders-_MG_00043--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/2023.06.10-22-LindsayBaloun-OaklandSpiders-_MG_00043--160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/2023.06.10-22-LindsayBaloun-OaklandSpiders-_MG_00043--768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/2023.06.10-22-LindsayBaloun-OaklandSpiders-_MG_00043--1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/2023.06.10-22-LindsayBaloun-OaklandSpiders-_MG_00043--2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/2023.06.10-22-LindsayBaloun-OaklandSpiders-_MG_00043--1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Spiders are an ultimate frisbee team that play at Fremont High School in East Oakland. \u003ccite>(Julien Dagan @juliendaganphoto)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bayareafalcons/?hl=en&img_index=1\">\u003cb>Bay Area Falcons\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb> and \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oaklandspiders/?hl=en\">\u003cb>Oakland Spiders\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the venerable spring-and-summer sports of baseball and soccer aren’t your jam, or you’re looking for a new spin on sunny weather outings, check out the Falcons (women’s and non-binary) and Spiders (men’s) professional ultimate frisbee teams. Both squads compete at East Oakland’s Fremont High School for home games. The Spiders — two-time national champs, currently led by rookie frisbeer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghz9Qey4Of8\">Raekwon Adkins\u003c/a> — have also graciously provided \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C5mcdH-PWoa/?hl=en\">an ultimate frisbee explainer video\u003c/a> for the uninitiated. Admittedly, I’ve never attended a pro frisbee game, but with my favorite summertime team — formerly known as the Oakland Athletics — about to vacate the area, I’ll certainly be looking elsewhere to provide my loyal fandom. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.falconsultimate.com/tickets\">Tickets here\u003c/a> (Falcons) and\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandspiders.com/collections/tickets_memberships\"> here\u003c/a> (Spiders).\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In what might be the most heartbreaking, multi-league exodus in modern sports history, the Bay Area — and in particular, Oakland — has recently suffered more than its fair share of hometown woes. Between \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39908731/oakland-sacramento-meetings-moves-john-fisher\">the bumbling soullessness of Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher\u003c/a>, the departure of the Raiders and the not-so-distant transplanting of the Golden State Warriors in recent seasons, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955419/oakland-as-athletics-booker-ruiz-wristbandgate\">fanbases have experienced no shortage of rage and disappointment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s response? To gather an eclectic and boisterous assemblage of fans and community members, and organize with a grassroots ferocity rarely seen in the sports world. The past few months have seen the Bay creating new teams — separate from the level of the Giants, 49ers, Warriors and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13957833/golden-state-valkyries-chase-center-wnba-block-party-kehlani-e-40-p-lo\">the newly minted Valkyries\u003c/a> — garnering independent support and marching downfield with an unwavering appreciation for the underdog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upshot is that, this summer, there are more ways than ever to enjoy an affordable sports outing with your family — and, in doing so, proving that Bay Area sports fans are resilient and loyal. Here’s a brief rundown on how to support the Bay’s most exciting teams (without putting any money in Fisher’s feeble hands).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956942\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956942\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ballers1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a baseball player shows off his Oakland Ballers jersey at a local tryout\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ballers1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ballers1-800x573.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ballers1-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ballers1-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ballers1-768x550.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ballers1-1536x1100.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ballers1-2048x1466.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ballers1-1920x1375.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Ballers recently held a tryout for local players to showcase their skills at Laney College. \u003ccite>(Oakland Ballers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oakland.ballers/?hl=en\">\u003cb>Oakland Ballers\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In search of a locally rooted organization committed to preserving Oakland’s storied baseball identity? Look no further than\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968536/new-oakland-ballers-baseball-team-aims-to-keep-the-sport-in-the-city\"> the B’s — short for Ballers\u003c/a> — whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938668/meet-the-designer-for-the-bs-oaklands-new-homegrown-baseball-team\">snazzy, historically-forward logo\u003c/a> and uniforms harken back to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OaklandBallers/status/1781387456836981054\">the city’s prolific baseball legacy among shipyard workers and Black unions\u003c/a>. The brand new team will play at Raimondi Park in West Oakland and compete in the Pioneer League — an independent collection of minor league franchises with no Major League Baseball affiliations. Though their season doesn’t start until late May, the organization has already hit a home run by signing \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kelsie_whitmore/?hl=en\">the league’s first-ever female pitcher, Kelsie Whitmore\u003c/a>. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://uspst.clappit.com/tickets-oakland-ballers/showProductList.html\">Tickets here\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956939\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956939\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JT401019-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a group of women soccer players celebrate after a goal is scored\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JT401019-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JT401019-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JT401019-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JT401019-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JT401019-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JT401019-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JT401019-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JT401019-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay FC players celebrate after a goal. The NWSL is considered among the best leagues in the world. \u003ccite>(Bay FC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wearebayfc/?hl=en\">\u003cb>Bay FC\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We’re witnessing the largest surge for women’s sports in history — and we can be proud that the Bay Area is at its forefront. In addition to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963547/wnba-team-in-the-bay-a-slam-dunk-for-bay-area-basketball\">the WNBA’s announcement of a Golden State expansion franchise\u003c/a> in 2025, the region scored extra points by introducing their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980330/a-new-pro-womens-soccer-team-kicks-off-in-the-bay\">newest women’s soccer team\u003c/a>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wearebayfc/?hl=en\">Bay FC\u003c/a>, who made a splash by signing six-time African Women’s Footballer of the Year, Asisat Oshoala. Their \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/39585552/nwsl-new-nike-kits-laying-foundation-commercial-growth\">Nike-designed kits and Old English crest\u003c/a> have elicited much excitement, and the schedule promises a variety of celebratory nights, including Pride and Latino Heritage. The team’s inaugural season is already underway as the newest members of the National Women’s Soccer League, which \u003cem>The Guardia\u003c/em>n recently dubbed “\u003ca href=\"https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2024/may/01/nwsl-commissioner-interview-us-soccer-expansion-value\">the world’s most innovative league\u003c/a>.” With home games costing as low as $13 at San Jose’s PayPal Park (a fun venue with the world’s largest outdoor bar), there’s no excuse for missing out on any summer kicks. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://bayfc.com/schedule/\">Tickets here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-579843848.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957862\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-579843848.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a gray and blue baseball uniform that reads 'Stockton' is in the middle of throwing the ball from somewhere in the infield\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-579843848.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-579843848-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-579843848-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-579843848-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-579843848-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stockton Ports shortstop Franklin Barreto throws to first base during the game between the Stockton Ports and the Bakersfield Blaze at Sam Lynn in Bakersfield, CA. \u003ccite>( David Dennis/Icon Sportswire/Corbis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/stocktonports/\">\u003cb>Stockton Ports\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not for meant for the casual bandwagoner, this sports excursion will require a day trip to Stockton. But, as the A’s official single-A affiliate, who have shown nothing but support to fans amid MLB’s failure to keep the green-and-gold in town, our neighboring franchise deserves some love. For years, the Ports have been overlooked as an out-of-market afterthought: Why watch minor leaguers when you have major leaguers nearby? Well, that reality has shifted: Why continue supporting a vapid owner when you have a friendly alternative nearby? Earlier this season, when Oakland sports fans held their own Fan Fest,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952437/oakland-as-fans-fest-jack-london-square-2024\"> the Ports became official sponsors\u003c/a> and provided donations to help make it happen. If that’s not the definition of being 10 toes down, I’m not sure what is. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.milb.com/stockton/schedule/2024-04\">Tickets here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2148930700.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957863\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2148930700.jpg\" alt=\"two soccer players sign a colorful flag for fans in the stands after winning a nighttime game\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2148930700.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2148930700-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2148930700-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2148930700-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2148930700-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neveal Hackshaw and Johnny Rodriguez of the Oakland Roots sign a flag for fans after the U.S. Open Cup third round game between the Oakland Roots and El Farolito on April 16, 2024 at Pioneer Stadium in Hayward, California. \u003ccite>(Doug Zimmerman/ISI Photos/USSF/Getty Images for USSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oaklandroots/?hl=en\">\u003cb>Oakland Roots\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most socially conscious squad in all of professional U.S. sports, the Roots have \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Are-the-Oakland-Roots-the-most-civic-minded-team-15661728.php\">put the community first since their 2018 formation in the Town\u003c/a>. Whether it’s collaborating with local artists and small businesses or cultivating a development team known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/project51o/\">Project 510\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961286/oakland-roots-pro-soccer-team-raises-nearly-2-million-in-first-4-days-of-crowdfunding\">crowdfunded club\u003c/a> (which includes Jason Kidd, Marshawn Lynch, G Eazy and Billie Joe Armstrong as well as everyday Bay Area sports fans as part-owners) have been all in on hometown pride. You’re just as likely to see one of your favorite rappers performing at halftime, or casually attending a game on AAPI Heritage or Town Biz Night. Meanwhile CSU East Bay’s Pioneer Stadium is gorgeous, providing sweeping views of the Bay Area as an extra benefit to whatever’s going on between the sidelines. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://seatgeek.com/oakland-roots-sc-tickets\">Tickets here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956937\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956937\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/cedwx-26693-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a woman soccer player jogs during warm ups before a game\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/cedwx-26693-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/cedwx-26693-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/cedwx-26693-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/cedwx-26693-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/cedwx-26693-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/cedwx-26693-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/cedwx-26693-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/cedwx-26693-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Soul have been heralded for their play on the field, and their style off the field. \u003ccite>(Oakland Soul SC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oaklandsoulsc/?hl=en\">\u003cb>Oakland Soul\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not to be outdone, the Soul are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915080/oakland-roots-soccer-club-to-start-new-amateur-womens-team\">the amateur women’s branch of the Roots\u003c/a> — with a growing buzz and fanbase of their own. Their funky, retro-inspired uniforms are worth snagging from Oaklandish. Currently, the team plays in the United Soccer League Network, with home games hosted at Merritt College, and will play one double header with the Roots at CSUEB. Unlike Bay FC, the Soul play in the USL W, a second-division women’s league one tier beneath the NWSL — in other words, the two leading women’s soccer teams of the region aren’t directly in competition with one another, so you can guiltlessly cheer on both at once. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the WNBA announced that the Bay Area would receive an expansion team last October, fans have clamored with excitement and speculation around what the team’s name would be. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Tuesday, May 14, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the franchise’s identity was finally revealed\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: the Golden State Valkyries. One team representative described it as being “Warriors-inspired… \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wnbagoldenstate/status/1790392163722772790\">a host of women warriors\u003c/a>.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fittingly, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/itszenakeita/status/1790439492991529276\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the team will be hosting a block party in front of Chase Center\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Saturday, May 18, from 2-6 p.m. with appearances from Kehlani, P-Lo and E-40. Team merchandise will already be available for the earliest diehard fans, as the Valkyries aren’t slated to play their first game until the 2025 season.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wnbagoldenstate/status/1790376816840146993\">The Valkyries logo is minimalistic and clean\u003c/a>, with a violet crest anchored by the central tower of the Bay Bridge that flows into a winged V-shaped symbol. The bridge’s cables double as reinforced wings spreading outwards, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wnba.com/news/gs-valkyries-2025-identity\">the five spaces on each side represent a total of ten players facing off\u003c/a> against each other.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/wnbagoldenstate/status/1790376816840146993\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The announcement was made at 5:30 a.m., later accompanied by \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wnbagoldenstate/status/1790360287725674855\">a Kehlani-narrated video\u003c/a> — in which a camera flies over the Bay and into San Francisco’s streets with the sound of wings flapping in the background, alluding to the flying Nordic warrior that is the Valkyries’ namesake.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is where legends take flight,” says Kehlani, the Oakland singer whose early mixtapes \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cloud 19 \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You Should Be Here\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> evoke a similar vibe of high-flying, pink-clouded views overlooking San Francisco’s mighty skyline. “Our story has yet to be written,” she tells fans.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite its recent growth in popularity, the WNBA hasn’t added a team since 2008, so anticipation has been high. (Team owner Joe Lacob previously invested in women’s basketball with the short-lived San Jose Lasers in 1996, as part of the now-defunct American Basketball League.) \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Responses to the Valkyries’ name and logo seem to be overwhelmingly positive up to this point. Warriors players \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/warriors/status/1790426521858937324\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kevon Looney and Trayce Jackson-Davis were shown repping their counterparts’ shirts\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the Chase Center, where the Valkyries will also play. Warriors head coach \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/warriors/status/1790472288066011379\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Steve Kerr has also been spotted in the Dub’s practice facility rocking a Vs crewneck\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/wnbagoldenstate/status/1790360287725674855\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wnbagoldenstate/status/1790402511368769841\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco-born Olympian and freestyle skier Eileen Gu\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> shared a message for fans. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Caltrain/status/1790396659945587148\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Caltrain tweeted\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> about going to Chase Center to watch the new team. Robin Roberts, who covered \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RobinRoberts/status/1790350094463803854\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the WNBA’s inaugural season in 1997\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, held up a\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wnbagoldenstate/status/1790382211965075680\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a Valkyries sweatshirt\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on \u003cem>Good Morning America\u003c/em> after interviewing team president Jess Smith. And \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://wnbastore.nba.com/golden-state-valkyries/unisex-golden-state-valkyries-playa-society-eclipse-black-premium-t-shirt/t-24961574+p-574467284513361+z-9-1951373147\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Playa Society, a niche, independent clothing brand focused on the WNBA\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that has earned respect within the women’s basketball community, has already released their debut Valkyries merch. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The few criticisms have come from a handful of fans who’ve pointed out that the Valkyries’ purple and black color scheme is weirdly reminiscent of the nearby Sacramento Kings, rather than the blue and yellow of the Golden State Warriors. Another commenter also made a reference to the Dallas Wings, an WNBA team that features a mythological winged logo that appears to be Pegasus. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editors Note\u003c/strong>: A version of this story originally appeared on The Bold Italic. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]U[/dropcap]nless you live under a Chase Center-sized rock, you’ve probably heard the news: the Bay Area is getting a WNBA expansion team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://theathletic.com/4902855/2023/09/26/warriors-wnba-bay-area/\">initially reported by Marcus Thompson\u003c/a>, the franchise will be the WNBA’s first expansion effort since 2008, and Northern California’s only professional women’s basketball squad since the Sacramento Monarchs folded in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13927875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Acquired by Golden State Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob, the as-yet-unnamed Bay Area team will play in San Francisco and practice in Oakland. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/38574635/wnba-expansion-golden-state-warriors-everything-know\">ESPN’s extensive reporting\u003c/a>, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert believes the Bay Area’s unique social, economic and technological intersections make it an ideal location for the league’s growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for all the hoopla, this isn’t the first time women’s basketball has made waves in this region. In fact, the Bay has long been at the forefront — \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/12/purdy-joe-lacob-lost-10-million-on-his-first-basketball-investment-and-has-no-regrets/\">Lacob himself was involved with the San Jose Lasers of the ABA\u003c/a>, a short-lived women’s league that launched in the same year as the WNBA but quickly fizzled out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you want to go way back, you have to talk about Denise Long. In 1969, the Warriors — then known as the San Francisco Warriors — attempted to draft Long, a high school phenom from Iowa, to play alongside the men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may have been more of a sociological experiment than anything else. And perhaps it failed. But it indirectly led to one of the country’s first opportunities for women’s basketball in 1970, and paved the path for a women’s team to finally play here in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 838px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935982\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"838\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_.jpg 838w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_-800x1260.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_-160x252.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_-768x1210.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Long appears in a public campaign for Muni shortly after arriving in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(SFMTA/Internet Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Denise Long: The Longest Shot\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the summer of ’69, the Milwaukee Bucks chose Lew Alcindor with the number one NBA draft pick. You may know Alcindor today as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Hall of Famer with six championships who’s widely considered to be on basketball’s Mount Rushmore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year, with the 175th pick in the 13th round, the Warriors chose a teenage player they felt could rewrite the rules of the game: Denise Long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just like that, Long became the first-ever woman to be picked up by an NBA team. Standing just 5’11”, the supercharged player from Union-Whitten High School became a regional legend after singlehandedly eclipsing the 100-point mark \u003cem>three times\u003c/em> in her young career. Locally televised games attracted as many as 3.5 million viewers. She packed small-town arenas whenever she played. In her senior year she averaged a total of 69 points per game — more than Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan combined in any season they’ve played at any level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch highlights from Long’s 56-point performance in the 1968 Girls State Tournament Finals, in which the Union-Whitten Cobras overcame the Everly Lady Cattle Feeders with a 113–107 overtime victory:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf-0zuP18tQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the Warriors eccentric owner, Franklin Mieuli, decided to break every convention known to basketball by \u003ca href=\"https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/06/17/nba-draft-how-iowa-basketball-star-denise-long-rife-made-history-golden-state-warriors-girls-6-on-6/1409879001/\">recruiting Long to play for his team\u003c/a> in the City by Bay. No one, Long included, expected it. In fact, the pick was so out of pocket that when Long was contacted about being drafted, she mistakenly thought she was being drafted by the military to serve in the Vietnam War.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Almost no opportunities for women in basketball\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When she suddenly found herself interviewed about potentially playing in the NBA by Johnny Carson, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Wall Street Journal\u003c/em>, she had to admit: She had never even heard of the Warriors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only two NBA [teams] I really ever remember hearing was the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers,” Long said in an interview, decades later, on the \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL21vb25saWdodGdyYWhhbXNob3cubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M/episode/ZjhhOWIzMGMtNGU4MS00Zjk0LTg5NmEtYjZmNzQ4OTU0Mjdi?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwiOlsbpqq7vAhXTJzQIHT_0CN4QjrkEegQIBBAI&ep=6\">Moonlight Graham Show\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could be because, despite her eye-popping stats, virtually no opportunities existed for women players back then. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-02-10-sp-3529-story.html\">\u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> story from 1985\u003c/a> noted a sad reality regarding Long’s career: “Without so much as a college scholarship to show for her achievements, without \u003ca href=\"https://www.gq.com/story/ann-meyers-drysdale-interview\">Title IX’s equal rights legislation\u003c/a> as a springboard, with no Olympic gold available and no place to play, the most prolific high school scorer this country has known put away her basketball and resolved to get on with her life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she achieved the unthinkable by technically crossing over into the NBA, defined in those days by Abdul-Jabbar’s towering emergence, Walt Frazier’s silky smoothness and Wilt Chamberlain’s flagrant womanizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935983\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 710px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935983\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Lasers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Lasers.jpg 710w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Lasers-160x225.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Promotional poster for the San Jose Lasers, a short-lived women’s team that had the involvement of current Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob. \u003ccite>(Internet Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Warriors’ bold move to create genderless basketball was far ahead of its time — and still is. Walter Kennedy, the NBA commissioner at the time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedraftreview.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3347&catid=638&Itemid=342\">immediately nullified the Warriors’ pick\u003c/a> before Long could even put on a game jersey. Long’s name fell out of conversation, and the NBA world kept spinning as usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A women’s league at the Cow Palace\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To the credit of Long and Warriors owner Mieuli, they went ahead with a new game plan. Long migrated to the Bay Area, and Mieuli, an ever-flamboyant man of his word, paid for Long’s expenses while promoting her as the marquee talent of his new, soon-to-be-launched regional women’s league. (Mieuli even \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/sportsraid/denise-long-the-story-of-the-nbas-first-female-draft-pick-6a57c2917829\">bought his unlikely basketball prodigy a purple Jaguar\u003c/a> as part of her star-treatment package).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Warrior Girls Basketball League” was among the \u003ca href=\"https://sports.yahoo.com/the-warriors-made-history-50-years-ago-when-they-drafted-denise-long-the-queen-of-6-on-6-184004158.html\">first organized adult leagues for women’s basketball\u003c/a> to have been played in the United States. Mieuli didn’t pay the players, so technically it was not a professional league. But he did offer a rare chance for women to showcase their skills for NBA fans who were already used to attending Warriors games at the Cow Palace. The four women’s teams would play in a junior varsity–style double header before the men’s teams came on later in the evenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935976\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13935976\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-800x1236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1236\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-800x1236.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-1020x1576.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-160x247.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-768x1186.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-994x1536.jpg 994w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-1326x2048.jpg 1326w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-scaled.jpg 1657w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Long makes some shots at the Warriors’ practice facility in Oakland during a 2018 visit. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though highly imperfect, and by today’s standards demeaning, it proved an innovative attempt to expose Bay Area sports fans to something that, in 1971, the rest of the nation had basically no access to: post-college women’s basketball. Sadly, very little information exists about this amateur league. Online, there’s no video footage of it. But it was an important precursor to the WNBA, which wouldn’t arrive until 25 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So as we all tune in to the arrival of a new WNBA team in the Bay Area in 2025, when that first swish causes Chase Center to erupt with long-awaited excitement, just remember everything it took to get there. Remember the Warriors and their unprecedented draft pick, and remember Denise Long.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editors Note\u003c/strong>: A version of this story originally appeared on The Bold Italic. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">U\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>nless you live under a Chase Center-sized rock, you’ve probably heard the news: the Bay Area is getting a WNBA expansion team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://theathletic.com/4902855/2023/09/26/warriors-wnba-bay-area/\">initially reported by Marcus Thompson\u003c/a>, the franchise will be the WNBA’s first expansion effort since 2008, and Northern California’s only professional women’s basketball squad since the Sacramento Monarchs folded in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13927875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Acquired by Golden State Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob, the as-yet-unnamed Bay Area team will play in San Francisco and practice in Oakland. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/38574635/wnba-expansion-golden-state-warriors-everything-know\">ESPN’s extensive reporting\u003c/a>, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert believes the Bay Area’s unique social, economic and technological intersections make it an ideal location for the league’s growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for all the hoopla, this isn’t the first time women’s basketball has made waves in this region. In fact, the Bay has long been at the forefront — \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/12/purdy-joe-lacob-lost-10-million-on-his-first-basketball-investment-and-has-no-regrets/\">Lacob himself was involved with the San Jose Lasers of the ABA\u003c/a>, a short-lived women’s league that launched in the same year as the WNBA but quickly fizzled out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you want to go way back, you have to talk about Denise Long. In 1969, the Warriors — then known as the San Francisco Warriors — attempted to draft Long, a high school phenom from Iowa, to play alongside the men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may have been more of a sociological experiment than anything else. And perhaps it failed. But it indirectly led to one of the country’s first opportunities for women’s basketball in 1970, and paved the path for a women’s team to finally play here in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 838px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935982\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"838\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_.jpg 838w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_-800x1260.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_-160x252.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Long.MUNI_-768x1210.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Long appears in a public campaign for Muni shortly after arriving in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(SFMTA/Internet Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Denise Long: The Longest Shot\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the summer of ’69, the Milwaukee Bucks chose Lew Alcindor with the number one NBA draft pick. You may know Alcindor today as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Hall of Famer with six championships who’s widely considered to be on basketball’s Mount Rushmore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year, with the 175th pick in the 13th round, the Warriors chose a teenage player they felt could rewrite the rules of the game: Denise Long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just like that, Long became the first-ever woman to be picked up by an NBA team. Standing just 5’11”, the supercharged player from Union-Whitten High School became a regional legend after singlehandedly eclipsing the 100-point mark \u003cem>three times\u003c/em> in her young career. Locally televised games attracted as many as 3.5 million viewers. She packed small-town arenas whenever she played. In her senior year she averaged a total of 69 points per game — more than Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan combined in any season they’ve played at any level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch highlights from Long’s 56-point performance in the 1968 Girls State Tournament Finals, in which the Union-Whitten Cobras overcame the Everly Lady Cattle Feeders with a 113–107 overtime victory:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/lf-0zuP18tQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/lf-0zuP18tQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the Warriors eccentric owner, Franklin Mieuli, decided to break every convention known to basketball by \u003ca href=\"https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/06/17/nba-draft-how-iowa-basketball-star-denise-long-rife-made-history-golden-state-warriors-girls-6-on-6/1409879001/\">recruiting Long to play for his team\u003c/a> in the City by Bay. No one, Long included, expected it. In fact, the pick was so out of pocket that when Long was contacted about being drafted, she mistakenly thought she was being drafted by the military to serve in the Vietnam War.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Almost no opportunities for women in basketball\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When she suddenly found herself interviewed about potentially playing in the NBA by Johnny Carson, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Wall Street Journal\u003c/em>, she had to admit: She had never even heard of the Warriors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only two NBA [teams] I really ever remember hearing was the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers,” Long said in an interview, decades later, on the \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL21vb25saWdodGdyYWhhbXNob3cubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M/episode/ZjhhOWIzMGMtNGU4MS00Zjk0LTg5NmEtYjZmNzQ4OTU0Mjdi?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwiOlsbpqq7vAhXTJzQIHT_0CN4QjrkEegQIBBAI&ep=6\">Moonlight Graham Show\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could be because, despite her eye-popping stats, virtually no opportunities existed for women players back then. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-02-10-sp-3529-story.html\">\u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> story from 1985\u003c/a> noted a sad reality regarding Long’s career: “Without so much as a college scholarship to show for her achievements, without \u003ca href=\"https://www.gq.com/story/ann-meyers-drysdale-interview\">Title IX’s equal rights legislation\u003c/a> as a springboard, with no Olympic gold available and no place to play, the most prolific high school scorer this country has known put away her basketball and resolved to get on with her life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she achieved the unthinkable by technically crossing over into the NBA, defined in those days by Abdul-Jabbar’s towering emergence, Walt Frazier’s silky smoothness and Wilt Chamberlain’s flagrant womanizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935983\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 710px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935983\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Lasers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Lasers.jpg 710w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Lasers-160x225.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Promotional poster for the San Jose Lasers, a short-lived women’s team that had the involvement of current Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob. \u003ccite>(Internet Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Warriors’ bold move to create genderless basketball was far ahead of its time — and still is. Walter Kennedy, the NBA commissioner at the time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedraftreview.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3347&catid=638&Itemid=342\">immediately nullified the Warriors’ pick\u003c/a> before Long could even put on a game jersey. Long’s name fell out of conversation, and the NBA world kept spinning as usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A women’s league at the Cow Palace\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To the credit of Long and Warriors owner Mieuli, they went ahead with a new game plan. Long migrated to the Bay Area, and Mieuli, an ever-flamboyant man of his word, paid for Long’s expenses while promoting her as the marquee talent of his new, soon-to-be-launched regional women’s league. (Mieuli even \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/sportsraid/denise-long-the-story-of-the-nbas-first-female-draft-pick-6a57c2917829\">bought his unlikely basketball prodigy a purple Jaguar\u003c/a> as part of her star-treatment package).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Warrior Girls Basketball League” was among the \u003ca href=\"https://sports.yahoo.com/the-warriors-made-history-50-years-ago-when-they-drafted-denise-long-the-queen-of-6-on-6-184004158.html\">first organized adult leagues for women’s basketball\u003c/a> to have been played in the United States. Mieuli didn’t pay the players, so technically it was not a professional league. But he did offer a rare chance for women to showcase their skills for NBA fans who were already used to attending Warriors games at the Cow Palace. The four women’s teams would play in a junior varsity–style double header before the men’s teams came on later in the evenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935976\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13935976\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-800x1236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1236\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-800x1236.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-1020x1576.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-160x247.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-768x1186.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-994x1536.jpg 994w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-1326x2048.jpg 1326w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/DeniseLong.2018-scaled.jpg 1657w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Long makes some shots at the Warriors’ practice facility in Oakland during a 2018 visit. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though highly imperfect, and by today’s standards demeaning, it proved an innovative attempt to expose Bay Area sports fans to something that, in 1971, the rest of the nation had basically no access to: post-college women’s basketball. Sadly, very little information exists about this amateur league. Online, there’s no video footage of it. But it was an important precursor to the WNBA, which wouldn’t arrive until 25 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13928761 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a young white man in a flannel shirt and an older man, his father, in a blue button up shirt, with their arms around each other, smiling for the camera at a basketball game\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame.jpg 1429w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author and his father, John, at a Warriors game. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>ome of my clearest memories from childhood take place around basketball courts. While I never really played beyond the school yard with friends, my dad did. There was a rec league at his work, and my dad had games every week, it seemed. These games often happened to be on the Tuesdays or every-other-weekends that my brother and I spent with him starting around when I was seven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A chemical engineer by trade and standing 6’2”, my dad wasn’t an amazing athlete, but he would work his ass off out there. He’d make the occasional shot, but he was an absolute pest on defense. He always took us home straight after the final whistle blew, and the scent of his sweat would take over every cubic inch of airspace in his big brown Buick. It smelled aggressively sweet, somehow, and he never stank, aside from his shoes — the original Nike Air Jordans from 1985. One year he hurt his leg on the court but kept playing for the rest of the game. He only realized that he’d broken it the next day when it swelled up like a balloon, and I believe that was the end of his intramural career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928759\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-800x584.jpg\" alt=\"a black and white photo shows a high school basketball team from the 1960s\" width=\"800\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-800x584.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-1020x745.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-768x561.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-1536x1122.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John’s high school basketball team — he’s fourth from the left, No. 5. Chevy Chase, MD, 1965. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dad was always looking for cheap things he could do with us when it was his weekend with the boys. We lived about 20 minutes from the Oakland Coliseum, so that meant a lot of bleacher and upper-deck seats for A’s games. But once a year or so we’d get to go see the Warriors as a special treat. This was back during the Run TMC days, when they were so good, yet somehow only ever won a single playoff series. We blamed Don Nelson, who we agreed was a great coach, but somehow also very bad at coaching. I remember seeing Manute Bol taking impossibly long strides down the court, still the tallest human I’ve ever seen with my own eyes. Then our hopes fell to Latrell Sprewell and then Chris Webber to be the team’s savior, but it never panned out. We would still go every year, if only as a pretext for hitting Flint’s BBQ before the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As rosy as that all sounds, the truth was my dad and I didn’t get along very well. He and I fought bitterly and frequently. By the time I was a junior in high school, I’d stopped going to his house at all, and we didn’t go to games anymore, either. While we’d still see each other, it was better when we kept our distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Time has a way of mellowing people, though. We started actively — if casually — working on repairing our relationship when I was in my 20s and living in New York. Then, in 2007, he called me to tell me that he had prostate cancer, and I realized that I needed to try to let go of whatever grudges I still harbored and do my best to enjoy however much time I was going to get with him. He was 60 years old and stage 4, but he assured me that there were a lot of treatment options available, and he was going to do everything he could to stick around for a long time. And he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928758\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"a group of four men, two younger, two older, pose behind a sign that reads 'Bright angel trailhead' \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author, his father, his brother Matt, and his dad’s best friend Butch after they climbed out of the Grand Canyon for a camping trip to celebrate John’s 70th birthday. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I moved back to California in 2013, and though I lived in LA, visiting the Bay was a whole lot easier. At the same time, my dad started showing interest in the NBA again. “We should go see a Warriors game again next time you’re in town,” he said one day. “They’ve got these three young guys named Steph, Klay, and Draymond, and they’re just amazing!” I think I just harumphed. I hadn’t paid attention to the NBA in years, and I think I flashed back to the close-but-not-quite trio from my youth. I’d been hurt before. But I was still looking for ways to reconnect with my dad, so I said sure. We started going once a year again, and obviously it turned out to be a pretty good era to reemerge from a 20-year basketball coma as a Warriors fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not a stretch to say that the Warriors brought us closer together over the next decade. We’d watch games on TV together whenever I was in town. We’d even pick which nights I’d come over based on whether a game would be on. When I was away, if one of us texted the other, “You watching?” we both knew exactly what that meant. If we were both tuned in, we’d text back and forth, or sometimes after the game. “Curry got 51 tonight — did you see it?” (Feb. 25, 2016), or “Klay got something like 51 in 26 minutes (including 14 threes)” (Oct. 29, 2018). Even when we weren’t together, watching those games and talking about them made us feel closer. I got sucked back into NBA fandom, and my bond with my dad was stronger than it had ever been.[aside postid='arts_13922115']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>y dad was lucky that his treatments were generally mild, and he experienced virtually no symptoms for most of his time living with cancer. That streak lasted for the better part of a whopping 13 years. Things took a turn, though, right around when COVID hit. It had spread throughout his lymphatic system, and it was in his spine, all of which caused him incredible pain in his back and legs. His treatments got more aggressive, his side effects got wildly more unpleasant, and he got less and less benefit from each subsequent treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2022, he told the family that he was done fighting and would be entering home hospice, receiving palliative care, but no more treatment. I asked him if he was sure he was ready to throw in the towel. “The wheels are coming off, Brent,” he told me. “This body is used up, and it’s just no fun being in it anymore.” How can you argue with that? A couple weeks later he announced that on April 18, he would be making his big exit. California recently became a Death with Dignity / Right-to-Die state, and my brother and my dad’s siblings could all be there the weekend leading up to that Monday. As hard as it was, none of us tried to talk him out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was fortunate that I had booked a TV gig shooting in San Jose that started that January. Since retiring, my dad lived just over the mountains in Santa Cruz, which meant I got to visit him pretty much every week. After their two injury-riddled seasons, the Warriors were finally good again, and we watched any weekend games they played — along with his new wife, who was now hooked on the Dubs, too. Dad was over the moon to see Klay Thompson come back, his wife’s favorite was the promising rookie Jonathan Kuminga, and we all marveled any time Curry was on one. Pops was less mobile by this point, but he could put his feet up, pop an edible, and still enjoy the game, sometimes while donning his inflatable lymphedema compression pants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"an older woman and man with grey hair smiling at a dinner table. she wears an orange hoodie over a striped black and white shirt and he wears a blue and yellow warriors jersey\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-768x540.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-1536x1081.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John — wearing the jersey he would later give his son, claiming it was new — and his wife Teren in 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last thing we ever watched together was Game 1 of the Warriors’ first playoff series against the Nuggets on April 16. The Warriors won 123 to 107, but my dad had fallen asleep by halftime, and though he had DVR’d it, we never got around to watching the ending. He used every last bit of his energy that weekend spending time with his family, tying up loose ends, and, ever the goofball, wearing gigantic, fuzzy bunny ears on Easter. While going through some boxes in his garage, I found that pair of original Jordans he used to play in. I was amazed that he’d had the good sense to keep them. He said I should have them, and my brother and stepmom agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">On the morning of Monday, April 18, the whole family showed up wearing Hawaiian shirts, as he had requested. He didn’t want his death to be a somber affair. The prior Christmas he had gifted me a Steph Curry jersey, making a point of telling me it was brand-new, which I thought was a bit odd. I’ve never been the jersey-wearing type, as I always kind of thought of it as “big boy cosplay for bros,” but for the occasion I wore the jersey with the Hawaiian shirt unbuttoned so he could see it. I would later find out that it was actually his jersey, which he was sneakily regifting to me, but that just made it more special to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had decided a month in advance that he would take the life-ending medication at 10 a.m., and that, before then, each of his family members would go into his bedroom to have two or three minutes of one-on-one time with him. I was the second-to-last to go in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey! You’re wearing that jersey!” he exclaimed when I came in and sat on the bed next to him. “It looks good on you! Boy, Curry is just amazing. I don’t think there will ever be a better shooter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, he’s great, Dad…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You should check my dresser, though, because I used to have a Kobe jersey, too. Did you ever watch him? Man, 81 points in a game! I’ve never seen anything like it! He could score from anywhere…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point I had to interrupt to remind him that these were my last two minutes with him ever, so maybe we should talk about something other than basketball. “Oh yeah, okay, good point, good point,” he said, but he added that if he could, he would try to help the Warriors in their postseason run from the other side. He also thought it would be a good time to take one last selfie together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 561px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.Selfie.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13928762\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.Selfie.jpg\" alt=\"a young man in a blue and yellow warriors jersey next to an older man with grey hair in a white coat, both smiling for the camera.\" width=\"561\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.Selfie.jpg 561w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.Selfie-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author and his father. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>y dad’s death was about as sweet and as perfect as any of us could hope for. More importantly, it went just the way he’d hoped. While that helps soften the blow a little, it was still an emotional A-bomb. My dad lived with stage 4 cancer for an incredible 15 years, finally giving up the ghost at the age of 75 (like his father, and his father before him). When I sent out the email to all his friends and relatives, he instructed me to use the subject line, “John has left the building!” He was a funny guy to the very end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve never been religious or prone to magical thinking, but something happens when, minutes before your dad dies, he effectively says, “I’ll try to help the Warriors from the spirit realm.” Even if you don’t really believe it, you’re hoping for some sign or confirmation that your loved one is still out there, existing in one form or another. It wasn’t subtle for me. Starting with Game 2 of the series, the evening after he died, I found myself looking for meaning in every clutch three, like, “Was that you, Dad?” The Warriors won that game by 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I probably don’t have to tell you that the Warriors won the 21/22 Championship. Watching Game 6 in a hotel room in San Diego and wearing the Curry jersey, as a win looked inevitable in late the fourth quarter, I felt like I was losing my mind. The Warriors had been considered underdogs that season. After that final conversation with my dad, it was just too poetic, too storybook-ending to be real. When the final horn blew, I cheered and cried like I never had before while watching any game in any sport in my life. It felt like the closing of a chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-800x602.jpg\" alt=\"a pair of vintage red, white and black Nike Air Jordans\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-768x578.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-1536x1156.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John’s original Air Jordan 1 sneakers. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My dad’s well-used Air Jordan 1s now sit in a case on my bookshelf. To this day, I still watch almost every Warriors game, and now my stepmom and I text about it, like me and my dad did. It’s been the weirdest season for the Dubs — maybe my dad had better things to do in the afterlife than try to shepherd them along to another title. But as the one-year anniversary of his passing arrived, and as the Warriors continue in the playoffs again, watching them has continued to be a great comfort. I still miss him a lot, and I imagine I will for the rest of my life. But when a game is on, I can still hear him hooting and hollering. Remembering his almost cartoonish “Yahoooo!”makes him feel not quite so far away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m still watching, Dad. I wonder if you are, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Brent Rose is a journalist, actor and filmmaker\u003c/em>. \u003cem>Find him online at \u003ca href=\"http://www.brentrose.com\">brentrose.com\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13928761 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a young white man in a flannel shirt and an older man, his father, in a blue button up shirt, with their arms around each other, smiling for the camera at a basketball game\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame.jpg 1429w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author and his father, John, at a Warriors game. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>ome of my clearest memories from childhood take place around basketball courts. While I never really played beyond the school yard with friends, my dad did. There was a rec league at his work, and my dad had games every week, it seemed. These games often happened to be on the Tuesdays or every-other-weekends that my brother and I spent with him starting around when I was seven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A chemical engineer by trade and standing 6’2”, my dad wasn’t an amazing athlete, but he would work his ass off out there. He’d make the occasional shot, but he was an absolute pest on defense. He always took us home straight after the final whistle blew, and the scent of his sweat would take over every cubic inch of airspace in his big brown Buick. It smelled aggressively sweet, somehow, and he never stank, aside from his shoes — the original Nike Air Jordans from 1985. One year he hurt his leg on the court but kept playing for the rest of the game. He only realized that he’d broken it the next day when it swelled up like a balloon, and I believe that was the end of his intramural career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928759\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-800x584.jpg\" alt=\"a black and white photo shows a high school basketball team from the 1960s\" width=\"800\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-800x584.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-1020x745.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-768x561.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-1536x1122.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John’s high school basketball team — he’s fourth from the left, No. 5. Chevy Chase, MD, 1965. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dad was always looking for cheap things he could do with us when it was his weekend with the boys. We lived about 20 minutes from the Oakland Coliseum, so that meant a lot of bleacher and upper-deck seats for A’s games. But once a year or so we’d get to go see the Warriors as a special treat. This was back during the Run TMC days, when they were so good, yet somehow only ever won a single playoff series. We blamed Don Nelson, who we agreed was a great coach, but somehow also very bad at coaching. I remember seeing Manute Bol taking impossibly long strides down the court, still the tallest human I’ve ever seen with my own eyes. Then our hopes fell to Latrell Sprewell and then Chris Webber to be the team’s savior, but it never panned out. We would still go every year, if only as a pretext for hitting Flint’s BBQ before the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As rosy as that all sounds, the truth was my dad and I didn’t get along very well. He and I fought bitterly and frequently. By the time I was a junior in high school, I’d stopped going to his house at all, and we didn’t go to games anymore, either. While we’d still see each other, it was better when we kept our distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Time has a way of mellowing people, though. We started actively — if casually — working on repairing our relationship when I was in my 20s and living in New York. Then, in 2007, he called me to tell me that he had prostate cancer, and I realized that I needed to try to let go of whatever grudges I still harbored and do my best to enjoy however much time I was going to get with him. He was 60 years old and stage 4, but he assured me that there were a lot of treatment options available, and he was going to do everything he could to stick around for a long time. And he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928758\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"a group of four men, two younger, two older, pose behind a sign that reads 'Bright angel trailhead' \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author, his father, his brother Matt, and his dad’s best friend Butch after they climbed out of the Grand Canyon for a camping trip to celebrate John’s 70th birthday. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I moved back to California in 2013, and though I lived in LA, visiting the Bay was a whole lot easier. At the same time, my dad started showing interest in the NBA again. “We should go see a Warriors game again next time you’re in town,” he said one day. “They’ve got these three young guys named Steph, Klay, and Draymond, and they’re just amazing!” I think I just harumphed. I hadn’t paid attention to the NBA in years, and I think I flashed back to the close-but-not-quite trio from my youth. I’d been hurt before. But I was still looking for ways to reconnect with my dad, so I said sure. We started going once a year again, and obviously it turned out to be a pretty good era to reemerge from a 20-year basketball coma as a Warriors fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not a stretch to say that the Warriors brought us closer together over the next decade. We’d watch games on TV together whenever I was in town. We’d even pick which nights I’d come over based on whether a game would be on. When I was away, if one of us texted the other, “You watching?” we both knew exactly what that meant. If we were both tuned in, we’d text back and forth, or sometimes after the game. “Curry got 51 tonight — did you see it?” (Feb. 25, 2016), or “Klay got something like 51 in 26 minutes (including 14 threes)” (Oct. 29, 2018). Even when we weren’t together, watching those games and talking about them made us feel closer. I got sucked back into NBA fandom, and my bond with my dad was stronger than it had ever been.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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I asked him if he was sure he was ready to throw in the towel. “The wheels are coming off, Brent,” he told me. “This body is used up, and it’s just no fun being in it anymore.” How can you argue with that? A couple weeks later he announced that on April 18, he would be making his big exit. California recently became a Death with Dignity / Right-to-Die state, and my brother and my dad’s siblings could all be there the weekend leading up to that Monday. As hard as it was, none of us tried to talk him out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was fortunate that I had booked a TV gig shooting in San Jose that started that January. Since retiring, my dad lived just over the mountains in Santa Cruz, which meant I got to visit him pretty much every week. After their two injury-riddled seasons, the Warriors were finally good again, and we watched any weekend games they played — along with his new wife, who was now hooked on the Dubs, too. Dad was over the moon to see Klay Thompson come back, his wife’s favorite was the promising rookie Jonathan Kuminga, and we all marveled any time Curry was on one. Pops was less mobile by this point, but he could put his feet up, pop an edible, and still enjoy the game, sometimes while donning his inflatable lymphedema compression pants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"an older woman and man with grey hair smiling at a dinner table. she wears an orange hoodie over a striped black and white shirt and he wears a blue and yellow warriors jersey\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-768x540.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-1536x1081.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John — wearing the jersey he would later give his son, claiming it was new — and his wife Teren in 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last thing we ever watched together was Game 1 of the Warriors’ first playoff series against the Nuggets on April 16. The Warriors won 123 to 107, but my dad had fallen asleep by halftime, and though he had DVR’d it, we never got around to watching the ending. He used every last bit of his energy that weekend spending time with his family, tying up loose ends, and, ever the goofball, wearing gigantic, fuzzy bunny ears on Easter. While going through some boxes in his garage, I found that pair of original Jordans he used to play in. I was amazed that he’d had the good sense to keep them. He said I should have them, and my brother and stepmom agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">On the morning of Monday, April 18, the whole family showed up wearing Hawaiian shirts, as he had requested. He didn’t want his death to be a somber affair. The prior Christmas he had gifted me a Steph Curry jersey, making a point of telling me it was brand-new, which I thought was a bit odd. I’ve never been the jersey-wearing type, as I always kind of thought of it as “big boy cosplay for bros,” but for the occasion I wore the jersey with the Hawaiian shirt unbuttoned so he could see it. I would later find out that it was actually his jersey, which he was sneakily regifting to me, but that just made it more special to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had decided a month in advance that he would take the life-ending medication at 10 a.m., and that, before then, each of his family members would go into his bedroom to have two or three minutes of one-on-one time with him. I was the second-to-last to go in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey! You’re wearing that jersey!” he exclaimed when I came in and sat on the bed next to him. “It looks good on you! Boy, Curry is just amazing. I don’t think there will ever be a better shooter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, he’s great, Dad…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You should check my dresser, though, because I used to have a Kobe jersey, too. Did you ever watch him? Man, 81 points in a game! I’ve never seen anything like it! He could score from anywhere…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point I had to interrupt to remind him that these were my last two minutes with him ever, so maybe we should talk about something other than basketball. “Oh yeah, okay, good point, good point,” he said, but he added that if he could, he would try to help the Warriors in their postseason run from the other side. He also thought it would be a good time to take one last selfie together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 561px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.Selfie.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13928762\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.Selfie.jpg\" alt=\"a young man in a blue and yellow warriors jersey next to an older man with grey hair in a white coat, both smiling for the camera.\" width=\"561\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.Selfie.jpg 561w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.Selfie-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author and his father. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>y dad’s death was about as sweet and as perfect as any of us could hope for. More importantly, it went just the way he’d hoped. While that helps soften the blow a little, it was still an emotional A-bomb. My dad lived with stage 4 cancer for an incredible 15 years, finally giving up the ghost at the age of 75 (like his father, and his father before him). When I sent out the email to all his friends and relatives, he instructed me to use the subject line, “John has left the building!” He was a funny guy to the very end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve never been religious or prone to magical thinking, but something happens when, minutes before your dad dies, he effectively says, “I’ll try to help the Warriors from the spirit realm.” Even if you don’t really believe it, you’re hoping for some sign or confirmation that your loved one is still out there, existing in one form or another. It wasn’t subtle for me. Starting with Game 2 of the series, the evening after he died, I found myself looking for meaning in every clutch three, like, “Was that you, Dad?” The Warriors won that game by 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I probably don’t have to tell you that the Warriors won the 21/22 Championship. Watching Game 6 in a hotel room in San Diego and wearing the Curry jersey, as a win looked inevitable in late the fourth quarter, I felt like I was losing my mind. The Warriors had been considered underdogs that season. After that final conversation with my dad, it was just too poetic, too storybook-ending to be real. When the final horn blew, I cheered and cried like I never had before while watching any game in any sport in my life. It felt like the closing of a chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-800x602.jpg\" alt=\"a pair of vintage red, white and black Nike Air Jordans\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-768x578.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-1536x1156.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John’s original Air Jordan 1 sneakers. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My dad’s well-used Air Jordan 1s now sit in a case on my bookshelf. To this day, I still watch almost every Warriors game, and now my stepmom and I text about it, like me and my dad did. It’s been the weirdest season for the Dubs — maybe my dad had better things to do in the afterlife than try to shepherd them along to another title. But as the one-year anniversary of his passing arrived, and as the Warriors continue in the playoffs again, watching them has continued to be a great comfort. I still miss him a lot, and I imagine I will for the rest of my life. But when a game is on, I can still hear him hooting and hollering. Remembering his almost cartoonish “Yahoooo!”makes him feel not quite so far away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m still watching, Dad. I wonder if you are, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Brent Rose is a journalist, actor and filmmaker\u003c/em>. \u003cem>Find him online at \u003ca href=\"http://www.brentrose.com\">brentrose.com\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">R\u003c/span>ight from the start of Game 1 of a highly anticipated NBA game between my Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings, I immediately noticed something was off. And it had nothing to do with basketball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\">As the son of Mexican immigrants and a lifelong hoop head, I’ve always felt at home among Bay Area sports fans. In particular, Warriors fans reflect California’s cultural pluralisms more than just about any other team in the nation — not only in race but in age, gender, and economic class. So when I flipped on the TV on Saturday evening and saw the monolithic crowd, my instincts churned. There were \u003cem>hella\u003c/em> white people at the game in Sacramento — a city \u003ca href=\"https://sacramento.newsreview.com/2021/11/19/new-figures-show-sacramento-maintains-its-coveted-most-diverse-city-title/\">recently celebrated for being the most diverse in the United States\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours later, the internet blew up in response to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/incarceratedbob/status/1647723610092568578\">footage of Vallejo-raised rapper Earl “E-40” Stevens being ejected from the game\u003c/a>, after what he alleged to be an incident of “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MarcJSpears/status/1647618790900006913\">racial bias\u003c/a>.” I was not as shocked as others may have been. Nor was I surprised when Sacramento fans posted comments like “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Moburner314/status/1647738823667859457\">he claimed racism lol\u003c/a>,” and “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mr_zachparker/status/1647695912557334530\">If he had kept his cool, he probably wouldn’t have gotten kicked out\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of now, NBA sources are claiming E-40 was removed from the game due to “standing excessively.” A smattering of fans online have also chimed in, stating he should’ve stayed seated during the game. But that’s like kicking Stephen Curry out of a basketball gym for making an excessive amount of three-pointers. What else are you supposed to do at a high-octane sporting event? Sit down, stay seated and politely clap with a bourgeoisie delicacy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento Kings organization have also issued \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/3953777-rapper-e-40-ejected-from-warriors-kings-game-citing-racial-bias/\">an official statement\u003c/a>, promising to investigate the matter. But if E-40’s account is accurate, and he was unfairly targeted by a white woman in a crowd where he was clearly othered — whether by race, fanship, or other factors — then Sacramento had better get ready for an arena-sized apology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/linebackrschool/status/1647434178395541504\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>’ve visited NBA arenas around the nation — from Denver and Oklahoma City to Boston and New Orleans — and I know what it feels like to be away from the comfort of a Bay Area crowd. I’ve sat in sections where not only was I wearing the wrong colors, but where no one around me was visibly Latino. No one ever attacked me directly, in part because I made sure not to attract too much attention. But it’s definitely unsettling to be the sole representative of a different group among a large audience, especially as a person of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve never been in that situation, then you probably don’t know how strangely hostile and tense it can feel, and how quickly civil decorum can dissolve into a mobbish clamor against your presence. For most white Americans, it’s simply an environment they’ve rarely experienced, and as a result, whenever a person of color brings it up, it usually gets dismissed as an exaggeration or irrelevant complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13907726']Even worse, if you’ve never been pulled over, physically searched, temporarily detained or threatened to be taken to jail — due to nothing more than your physical traits, the clothes you’re wearing or for looking out of place in a certain environment, something I have personally experienced — then you might not fully grasp the levels of anxiety and anger that ensue when a security guard or enforcement officer approaches. Now put that in the context of Saturday night’s game. Race can never be separated from an outcome in this situation, in this country, in a certain body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident also exposed underlying economic and class disparities in California. When the “We Believe” Warriors made it to the playoffs in 2007, I made sure to drop everything and attend two games. Back then, the Bay Area was only beginning its exorbitant cost of living increases, so a first-generation teenager like me was able to hit up games in East Oakland with my single-parent dad and older brother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, that’s no longer the case. Going to this year’s playoff games at the Golden 1 Center in downtown Sacramento means \u003ca href=\"https://www.basketballnews.com/stories/kingswarriors-breaks-record-for-most-expensive-firstround-tickets\">paying prices that’ve never been seen for a first-round playoff match in the league’s history\u003c/a>. The average cost is $688 per seat; in lower-level seats, where E-40 was sitting, fans typically pay thousands of dollars, effectively making them hyper-exclusionary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s where race, as always, is a factor. In 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofsacramento.org/Economic-Development/Why-Sacramento/Demographics-and-Market-Information/Key-Demographics\">according to the City of Sacramento\u003c/a>, non-Latino white residents accounted for 29%, or less than one-third, of the city’s population. Yet in \u003ca href=\"https://statisticalatlas.com/place/California/Sacramento/Household-Income#figure/household-income-distribution-by-race\">data showing average household incomes by race\u003c/a>, most incomes higher than $100,000 per year are made by white residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13927880\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-17-at-1.09.38-PM-800x784.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-17-at-1.09.38-PM-800x784.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-17-at-1.09.38-PM-160x157.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-17-at-1.09.38-PM-768x753.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-17-at-1.09.38-PM.png 892w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Translation: despite being in the minority, white Sacramento residents maintain a major economic advantage, and have a significantly higher chance of being able to afford a high-cost, high-demand event like Saturday night’s playoff game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a saying in basketball: “ball don’t lie.” Well, after I took one look at the playoff-adrenalized masses in Sacramento, I couldn’t help but think: “crowd demographics don’t lie.” Factually speaking, the arena lacked any visible segments of people of color. In this scenario, E-40, despite being a hugely successful Black entertainer and entrepreneur, was vastly outnumbered — and then thrown out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MarcJSpears/status/1647618790900006913\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">E\u003c/span>-40 has attended countless NBA games for both the Warriors and Kings throughout his years as a superfan, often sitting near the teams’ players — something his business empire’s success allows him to do at this stage in his career. He has regularly appeared on national television during such games, including the NBA Finals. But this is the first time he has been tossed out. It’s out of the ordinary, to be sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>, when he found out about E-40 being jettisoned out of the arena, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nba/2023/04/16/nba-playoffs-kings-e40-ejected-racial-bias/2c5a54b8-dc8c-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html\">Warriors star Klay Thompson defended the rapper\u003c/a>, saying “In my time knowing him, he’s always been respectful. He’s always been considerate of those around him. Very weird to see, and I hope it’s resolved.” (E-40 has announced that he will not be attending Game 2.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad alignright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It worries me that fans in a city like Sacramento can deny access for others. If a mixed crowd can’t gather for a sporting event in California’s capital — a state that most Americans would point to as being inclusive — then what does that say about our country’s deceptive failings?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond sports, it reminds me that, for centuries, privileges for certain Americans have historically been leveraged against other groups of Americans. And that those calls for removal often have real consequences for those who are targeted, and told where and how they can exist — whether that means being kicked out of a basketball arena, or something much worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, that’s something that will never sit comfortably.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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