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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap] quarter century ago, during the 2000 NBA All-Star slam dunk contest, Vince Carter put on a show that solidified his nickname of “Half-Man Half-Amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hit a reverse 360 dunk that made Shaquille O’Neal react like a 7-foot kid. He followed it with “The East Bay Funk,” in which he hit off a bounce pass from his cousin and fellow member of the NBA Hall of Fame Tracy McGrady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his final attempt, he jumped so far into the sky that upon his descent, he was able to put his entire right forearm into the rim, hanging there for a few seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stars in the audience were stunned. Carter hanging off the rim from his forearm is an image forever etched into basketball history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The All-Star Game returns to the Bay Area this February. A lot has changed since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1712px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970096\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1712\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-scaled.jpg 1712w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-800x1196.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1020x1525.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-160x239.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-768x1149.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1027x1536.jpg 1027w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1369x2048.jpg 1369w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1920x2871.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1712px) 100vw, 1712px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vince Carter of the Toronto Raptors hangs with his forearm inside the rim during the NBA Allstar Game Slam Dunk Contest at the Oakland Coliseum on Feb. 13, 2000. \u003ccite>(Jed Jacobsohn /Allsport)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Vince Carter finally returned to Earth, he landed on the floor of the Oakland Arena. Professional hoops are no longer played there; the Warriors moved to the Chase Center in San Francisco in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the Dubs have won four NBA championships, three before leaving Oakland. But this year, after a promising start, they’re playing .500 ball. As star guard Steph Curry said in a recent interview, “We’re very mid right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_12006567']In fact, the whole Bay Area pro sports landscape, once rich with accolades, has been mid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco 49ers, one of the winningest franchises in NFL history, had a dismal year. Over the past three decades, they’ve repeatedly come close to being crowned champs, but they haven’t won a Super Bowl since 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Raiders, founded in Oakland in 1966, moved to Las Vegas in 2020. And last year, the Oakland Athletics, the baseball team that once shared a stadium with the Raiders, also left for Las Vegas — taking the scenic route through Sacramento for a couple seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970097\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan cheers during the A’s final home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacramento sports fans are no stranger to change either. Their basketball team, the Kings, recently fired head coach Mike Brown. That’s par for the course; the team has had eight different head coaches in the past 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only remaining major league baseball team in Northern California, the San Francisco Giants, were two games under .500 last year. And Northern California’s only pro hockey team, the San Jose Sharks, had the worst record in the entire NHL last year — and they aren’t doing much better this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, it’s not all bad. The Bay FC soccer team had a solid inaugural year. The Golden State Valkyries play their first WNBA game later this spring. And the Oakland Roots soccer team is set to play a few games at the Oakland Coliseum next season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_12019505']But on the whole, it’s been rough for local sports fans. Last year we mourned the loss of legendary athletes Rickey Henderson and Willie Mays. We even said goodbye to an entire collegiate athletic division, the Pac-12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this to say, when the All-Star Game comes around, you might run into some sports fans with some chips on their shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland ‘The Town’ logo is projected on the floor before a game between the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings at the Chase Center in 2020. \u003ccite>(Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]N[/dropcap]ot only has sports been mid, the cost of living has been high. That’s reflected most directly in the issue of housing disparity. In 2000, the City’s second-ever homeless census counted 5,376 people living without proper shelter. Last May, San Francisco tallied more than 8,300.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2018 United Nations report characterized the living conditions of San Francisco and Oakland’s unhoused population as “cruel and inhuman” and “a violation of multiple human rights.” Those conditions were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and last year, the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass decision led to large sweeps of encampments all around the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with these efforts to rid the streets of the people who call them home, mass homelessness is so widespread that visitors enjoying the glitz of All-Star weekend will have no choice but to be at least subtly aware of what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952165\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg\" alt='RVs in an encampment with signs that read \"Where do we go?\" and \"Respect existence or expect resistance.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs cover two RVs at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022, while CalTrans moved in to clear the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Concerns about homelessness, crime and the fentanyl epidemic have fueled political turmoil, as voters have rallied for tough-on-crime stances, voted against prison reform initiatives and lost faith in elected officials — even recalling two local district attorneys and the mayor of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As driverless cars whiz past the neon lights of cannabis dispensaries, new high rises have redrawn the City’s skyline. The region has grown not just vertically but horizontally, with new developments adding to urban sprawl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the influence of tech money in the region is as clear as the Rakuten logo on the Warriors’ official jersey. If you haven’t been here since 2000, it’s changed a lot. Even to those of us from here, it looks like an entirely new place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13964538']In the winter of 2000, I was a 12 year-old aspiring baseball player, but I couldn’t pass up free tickets gifted to my oldest friend Jon and I for the NBA All-Star weekend rookie game. We considered hiding out in the bathroom to see the dunk contest later that evening, but ended up hanging out in front of the arena and enjoying ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The energy in the Town was live. Around the arena, radio station vans pulled up and people played arcade-style hoop games. Despite the losing records of the local sports teams and the community issues of the time, it was fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 924px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970128\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"924\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980.jpg 924w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980-800x1174.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980-160x235.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980-768x1127.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Evelya of Oakland dunks the ball at one of the many basketball activities outside the Oakland Arena for the 2000 All-Star Game. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]o as we dig deeper into 2025, I acknowledge that some of us are on edge about both national and local issues. And yeah, our pro sports teams are going through something right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this event, first and foremost, is for the home team. Make it memorable. And to visitors coming to the Bay, be prepared: there are different realities based on your economic status. After bringing your luggage straight to the hotel instead of leaving it in your car, come out and enjoy the festivities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will inevitably be a protest of some sort, you’ll hear some E-40, and I’d bet my pink slip that there’ll be at least one sideshow that weekend. This is one of the most unique places in the world, mostly because there are so many people here from all around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While our sports teams (hopefully) get on the mend, there’s arguably no place with more game. Soak some.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp> quarter century ago, during the 2000 NBA All-Star slam dunk contest, Vince Carter put on a show that solidified his nickname of “Half-Man Half-Amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hit a reverse 360 dunk that made Shaquille O’Neal react like a 7-foot kid. He followed it with “The East Bay Funk,” in which he hit off a bounce pass from his cousin and fellow member of the NBA Hall of Fame Tracy McGrady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his final attempt, he jumped so far into the sky that upon his descent, he was able to put his entire right forearm into the rim, hanging there for a few seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stars in the audience were stunned. Carter hanging off the rim from his forearm is an image forever etched into basketball history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The All-Star Game returns to the Bay Area this February. A lot has changed since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1712px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970096\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1712\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-scaled.jpg 1712w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-800x1196.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1020x1525.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-160x239.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-768x1149.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1027x1536.jpg 1027w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1369x2048.jpg 1369w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-72442645-1920x2871.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1712px) 100vw, 1712px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vince Carter of the Toronto Raptors hangs with his forearm inside the rim during the NBA Allstar Game Slam Dunk Contest at the Oakland Coliseum on Feb. 13, 2000. \u003ccite>(Jed Jacobsohn /Allsport)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Vince Carter finally returned to Earth, he landed on the floor of the Oakland Arena. Professional hoops are no longer played there; the Warriors moved to the Chase Center in San Francisco in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the Dubs have won four NBA championships, three before leaving Oakland. But this year, after a promising start, they’re playing .500 ball. As star guard Steph Curry said in a recent interview, “We’re very mid right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In fact, the whole Bay Area pro sports landscape, once rich with accolades, has been mid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco 49ers, one of the winningest franchises in NFL history, had a dismal year. Over the past three decades, they’ve repeatedly come close to being crowned champs, but they haven’t won a Super Bowl since 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Raiders, founded in Oakland in 1966, moved to Las Vegas in 2020. And last year, the Oakland Athletics, the baseball team that once shared a stadium with the Raiders, also left for Las Vegas — taking the scenic route through Sacramento for a couple seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970097\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-31-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan cheers during the A’s final home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacramento sports fans are no stranger to change either. Their basketball team, the Kings, recently fired head coach Mike Brown. That’s par for the course; the team has had eight different head coaches in the past 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only remaining major league baseball team in Northern California, the San Francisco Giants, were two games under .500 last year. And Northern California’s only pro hockey team, the San Jose Sharks, had the worst record in the entire NHL last year — and they aren’t doing much better this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, it’s not all bad. The Bay FC soccer team had a solid inaugural year. The Golden State Valkyries play their first WNBA game later this spring. And the Oakland Roots soccer team is set to play a few games at the Oakland Coliseum next season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But on the whole, it’s been rough for local sports fans. Last year we mourned the loss of legendary athletes Rickey Henderson and Willie Mays. We even said goodbye to an entire collegiate athletic division, the Pac-12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this to say, when the All-Star Game comes around, you might run into some sports fans with some chips on their shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1209815211-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland ‘The Town’ logo is projected on the floor before a game between the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings at the Chase Center in 2020. \u003ccite>(Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">N\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ot only has sports been mid, the cost of living has been high. That’s reflected most directly in the issue of housing disparity. In 2000, the City’s second-ever homeless census counted 5,376 people living without proper shelter. Last May, San Francisco tallied more than 8,300.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2018 United Nations report characterized the living conditions of San Francisco and Oakland’s unhoused population as “cruel and inhuman” and “a violation of multiple human rights.” Those conditions were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and last year, the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass decision led to large sweeps of encampments all around the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with these efforts to rid the streets of the people who call them home, mass homelessness is so widespread that visitors enjoying the glitz of All-Star weekend will have no choice but to be at least subtly aware of what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952165\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg\" alt='RVs in an encampment with signs that read \"Where do we go?\" and \"Respect existence or expect resistance.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs cover two RVs at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022, while CalTrans moved in to clear the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Concerns about homelessness, crime and the fentanyl epidemic have fueled political turmoil, as voters have rallied for tough-on-crime stances, voted against prison reform initiatives and lost faith in elected officials — even recalling two local district attorneys and the mayor of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As driverless cars whiz past the neon lights of cannabis dispensaries, new high rises have redrawn the City’s skyline. The region has grown not just vertically but horizontally, with new developments adding to urban sprawl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the influence of tech money in the region is as clear as the Rakuten logo on the Warriors’ official jersey. If you haven’t been here since 2000, it’s changed a lot. Even to those of us from here, it looks like an entirely new place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the winter of 2000, I was a 12 year-old aspiring baseball player, but I couldn’t pass up free tickets gifted to my oldest friend Jon and I for the NBA All-Star weekend rookie game. We considered hiding out in the bathroom to see the dunk contest later that evening, but ended up hanging out in front of the arena and enjoying ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The energy in the Town was live. Around the arena, radio station vans pulled up and people played arcade-style hoop games. Despite the losing records of the local sports teams and the community issues of the time, it was fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13970128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 924px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13970128\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"924\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980.jpg 924w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980-800x1174.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980-160x235.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-1359133980-768x1127.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Evelya of Oakland dunks the ball at one of the many basketball activities outside the Oakland Arena for the 2000 All-Star Game. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>o as we dig deeper into 2025, I acknowledge that some of us are on edge about both national and local issues. And yeah, our pro sports teams are going through something right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this event, first and foremost, is for the home team. Make it memorable. And to visitors coming to the Bay, be prepared: there are different realities based on your economic status. After bringing your luggage straight to the hotel instead of leaving it in your car, come out and enjoy the festivities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will inevitably be a protest of some sort, you’ll hear some E-40, and I’d bet my pink slip that there’ll be at least one sideshow that weekend. This is one of the most unique places in the world, mostly because there are so many people here from all around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden State Warriors had a rough 2023-2024 campaign, but at least the music was slappin’.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During timeouts, breaks between quarters and sometimes even when the ball was in play, the Chase Center’s speakers would vibrate with the sounds of legendary Bay Area hip-hop artists. The person often on the turntables making it happen: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djdsharp/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DJ D Sharp\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13956841\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DJDSharp-by-Squint-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Man with headphones on looks into the camera with an upbeat expression. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DJDSharp-by-Squint-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DJDSharp-by-Squint-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DJDSharp-by-Squint-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DJDSharp-by-Squint-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DJDSharp-by-Squint-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DJDSharp-by-Squint-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DJDSharp-by-Squint-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJ D Sharp on the ones and twos at Chase Center. \u003ccite>(Squint)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He’s been the Warriors in-house DJ for a decade, providing the soundtrack for Steph, Klay, Draymond and company during their legendary run of four NBA championships. DJ D Sharp, clearly an essential part of the team, even has four NBA championship rings of his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of the arena, DJ D Sharp is a radio show host for 106.1 KMEL and producer for Bay Area hip-hop artists. Over the past year, he’s produced projects for North Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/stspittin/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ST Spittin\u003c/a>, the East Bay collective \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/macarthurmaze/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MacArthur Maze\u003c/a> and a soon-to-be released project with East Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/firstnameian/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ian Kelly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raised in East Oakland himself, DJ D Sharp has been a producer and DJ since his teens. Given all his accomplishments, from working with the likes of Lauryn Hill and Kelly Rowland to making an appearance at the 2024 NBA All-Star Game, DJ D Sharp has a lot to be proud of. This week, we talk about providing a soundtrack for the Warriors’ dynasty while building a lasting legacy for his family and community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC7887334509\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Music playing]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw, Host:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What’s up Rightnowish listeners, it’s your guy, Pendarvis Harshaw. Tapping in with my Warriors fans out there. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Sigh]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What a season, talk about some highs and some lows, maybe the end of a dynasty. Who knows? Look, I’m not trying to wallow in the sad news– cause there’s always next year, right? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At least there’s one thing we know for sure: in 2025 the NBA-All Stars game is coming to the Bay, so you know it’s gonna be lit with events in the Town and in Frisco and one person who is sure to be in the mix: DJ D Sharp.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He’s the Warriors in-house DJ, which means during a game, when there’s a break in the action or even sometimes while the ball is in play, you can hear him on the 1s and 2s. And every once in a while you can even look up and see him stunting on the jumbotron. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On top of being the Warriors DJ, he’s a hip-hop producer. Recently he’s done projects with North Oakland’s ST Spittin and the group, MacArthur Maze. He’s been producing for just about as long as he’s been a DJ– dating back to his teens. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a guy who was raised in East Oakland, DJ D Sharp says it’s been a dream being a part of the Warriors franchise.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp, guest:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I don’t take none of it for granted. Like, it’s an amazing experience to deejay in front of 20,000 people every night and to get the love from the people too. It’s just amazing, bro. Like, I’m blessed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So for this episode, we chop it up about his journey to the Warriors, providing the soundtrack for a basketball dynasty and what legacy he’s building for the Town and his family, coming up after this. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bringing you into the discussion today, excited to talk to you because you are at the helm of something very important: you provide the soundtrack to one of my favorite sports teams. And you’ve produced some really tight projects over the last couple of years out of, out of the East Bay. Let’s start at the start. What came first: deejaying or producing?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deejaying most definitely came first. I was collecting records and like, the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yo! MTV Rap\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> era, like, it was just like, I loved it and I couldn’t, you know, step away from the TV. I was always tuned in, dialed in. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What was the first piece of equipment you had?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The first piece of equipment I had was my mom’s turn table. It was some off-brand name. I was on that thing learning. And then I was like, oh, I need a mixer and then I got a mixer from the homie down the street.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But my pops is uh, he’s a musician and he played the keyboards and he had bands and all that kind of stuff. So he’d buy the latest drum machine, and then I’d just be playing on it, and then next thing you know, he’d forget about it and he giving it to me.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music playing]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I caught on a real fast to the point where I think that’s why people started giving me equipment, giving me records and giving me stuff because they were seeing it. They was like, yo, he got it. Like, take this and go play. Go, go, go, go, experiment with this and then come back to me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What age are we talking about here?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 12. 13. 14.\u003c/span>\u003cb> I \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">had homies in Richmond, who I would go spend a weekend, every other weekend with them. My boy Aaron ,we were the same age, so we would we would hang out and his brothers was deejays. So I go to they house and just get equipment. Like, I come home with records.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was a community effort.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was a community effort for sure.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So a lot of these factors pouring into you, a lot of Bay area energy. You said either in the town or in Richmond. You did mention that \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yo! MTV Raps\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> having that influence on you as well.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I’m wondering like, does this whole trope about, you know, all Bay area music all sounds the same and how like there’s an east coast sound and a west coast sound, did that ever play a part in you developing your style?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When people heard me out deejaying and it’d be like the first question they asked me all the time was, was I from the east coast, “because you don’t you don’t deejay like these other cats. Like you, where are you from?” I’m like ‘I’m from East Oakland.’ Like, you know what I’m saying? They’d be like, “What?” I’d be like, ‘Yeah.’\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, being from the Town, you know, it’s all about the knock. It’s all about the slump. It’s all about, you know,415’s. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music playing]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So I came from that but also came from the choppin’ samples and that side of hip hop is the drum breaks and stuff like that. So like I’m taking the drum breaking and adding 808 to it, you get what I’m saying, like, you know,Too $hort, like, “In The Trunk” Like you listen to “In The Trunk” that’s what that is. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can hear it in my sound in a production, like, for me, I grew up loving Gang Starr as much as I love Ant Banks and Spice 1. I love Too $hort just as much as I loved Big Daddy Kane.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was just immersed in hip hop.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those early days of getting into the game and you start working with some, some pretty heavyweight names in the industry.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a time period, you were tour deejay for Lauryn Hill?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes! ‘Cause Kev Choice had tapped me to be the tour DJ for Lauryn because she tapped him to be the music director. Me and Kev go way back to Brookfield Elementary. You know, anytime he thinks of a DJ, anytime I think of, some, a multi instrumentalist, I think, of Kev. So we collab and we always look out for each other.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, yeah, Lauryn Hill was craz and it was a dope run, and I learned a lot from her. We all did.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I became a tour deejay all the way up until 2010, so you talking ten years.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We toured heavy with will.i.am. And I saw will.i.am at a Warriors game. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music playing]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And he was like, “You the Warriors Dj?” He was like “Oh okay, that’s whats up,” you know what I mean. So it all be a full circle moment.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Clip of promotional video] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“One more time, give it up for DJ D Sharp, come on!”\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> [basketball arena crowd cheers] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You’ve mentioned The Warriors, you’ve been there over a dozen years now. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bring me back to the start. How do you land that gig?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">God bless the dead DJ Solomon. He was the first deejay for the Warriors and I argue that he might have been the first deejay in the NBA. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He taught me a lot. He was a peer but he was also a mentor and I met him at a Blackalicious show. He he approached me and he said, “Bro, like your scratching, bro, it’s so crazy. Like, I DJ for the Warriors and you know, we’d love to have you come and just do a 2 x 4 set with me.” I was like ‘Yeah it’s all good,’ we exchanged numbers.” We killed it. We had a good time. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then he was like, “Let’s do it again.”\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And then he would do it with other deejays as well in the community. But then, he got busy, like, he was a part of the whole Serato situation. For those who don’t know, Serrato was the software used by DJs, just like, the number one software. But like, if you look back at the promo, bro is on the promo with like Z trip, DJ Jazzy Jeff, like Qbert, like with all the these heavy hitter deejays. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He got busy. So he couldn’t do a lot of games. So he would, like, send out these emails to a bunch of DJs and, and, you know, for some reason, it felt like I was always the one who answered the emails.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is when the Warriors sucked too, right. This is like pre, “we believe.” And then when “we believe” came like I was still filling in for him. But he did like all that playoff run and all that kind of stuff. And then up until 2012, he… man, yeah, he passed away, man, and then the Warriors offered me the gig.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before the Dynasty and Steph, Klay and Dre like in the early days like what does it mean to be a part of the entertainment of a team that’s not performing too well?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That was what it was all about. It was about the entertainment, right? because the team wasn’t good. So if you, if you, remember we had Thunder.\u003c/span>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music playing, crowd cheering]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thunder was the mascot for the Warriors. Thunder was the highlight, you know, dunking and doing his thing and going all around the arena ya know what I mean? Thunder was the man.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shout out Brett Yamaguchi, who was the head of all the entertainment. He made it where the entertainment was top notch. Like the t-shirt toss and like, the Warriors dance team and like all of that stuff, like, you know those timeouts, those breaks, those contests, like, all of that stuff was more exciting than the game itself \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[laughs]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> You get what I’m saying?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Warriors chant]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I do remember the arena always being filled. Like, people will always show up for the warriors, like, regardless of the losing seasons and all of that kinda stuff. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m rolling. I’m sorry. Yeah. You’re like “it was always packed,” like, yeah, because people got free tickets from the library, from Lucky’s, Round Table. But yeah, those were good times. You know, there was no winning in sight. I couldn’t foresee a Steph, Klay, Dray, like, dynasty like we have now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">No one could bro. And that’s the, that’s the magic and the beauty of it all, right?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah. Do you have a certain song that you go to for a certain situation? like say, I don’t know, it’s 24 seconds left on the clock and the Warriors got the ball, they down, you know, a point and you want the crowd to get amped during that half, during that timeout right before the ball comes into play. Do you have a song that will play for folks?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The only song that really that I go like, is a go to song when it’s cracking and is going stupid in there,I did like a house remix for the E-40 remix. So I do that a lot because it’s a lot of energy. “Everybody say Warriors, Warriors” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music playing]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I play that in moments like that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You deejay for the Warriors during this, like historical run, right, for this past decade. And when they play these clips as these players Steph, Klay, Dre go into the Hall of Fame, they’ll have those songs in the background as the clips play. Like, does that ever like, occur to you that you’re kind of laying the soundtrack for history?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, I think about it, you know ? Because it’s like, you know, I mean, I’ve had Steph, I’ve had Coach Kerr, I’ve had Loon, even GP too like, like I’ve had these brothers come up to me telling me, I make an impact. So it’s dope to hear that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With that said, you’re a valued member of the team. You’ve got championship rings, multiple.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: yeah, \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">No. It’s crazy. There’s one for each member of my family. Me, my wife and my two sons. We got four.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For you personally this year,while, the team has had its ups and downs, and a lot of down, you personally have had some some pretty big highlights, All Sar, All Star 2024?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, I was tapped to go and do All Star 2024. I did the celebrity game and that was fun. You know, that experience is amazing and is coming to the Bay area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You think that this means a lot to the entire Bay area, I’m assuming?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oh for sure, for sure, man.I think the Bay is getting a bad rap right now from the homelessness to everything that’s going on with the crime and bippin’ and all that kind of stuff.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But when you talk to people and you talk to family in other cities and other locations, like, this is going on across the country, across the world, like bippin’ is happening, like it’s worse in Atlanta as far as I know. But it don’t get amplified like it does here in the Bay for some reason.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland gets a bad rap, especially like, we been lost all of our teams. It’s like they trying to like, cleanse us of Oakland. It’s like, what are we doing? Like, no, Oakland is beautiful and it needs to be put on a pedestal.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music playing]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s heartbreaking to see. But at the same time, I think Oakland gonna eventually end up being on top like we always are.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah, as you talk about it, it’s kind of wild to me that you see it on both sides like the professional, the sports team, you were there for the Warriors move away from the town and through the music. The music is always an underdog to the bigger cities. And so playing that role, you’re carrying a lot of weight there!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Again, I see us, like, rising from the ashes like we here, Like, this is what we do. So, yeah, we’ll be aight.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music playing]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So beyond basketball, you’re also part owner of the Oakland Roots soccer team. Like, how did how did that come to be?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That sound crazy, don’t it, right? Shout out my sister, she hit me up. She was like, you know, “There’s rare opportunity to be a part of this, the growth of what’s going on with the Oakland Roots, Oakland Soul.” And she sent me the information and it was kind of like, a no brainer. And it’s going back to like, my kids, like, I’m looking at that. Like, I’m trying to set up something for them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And on top of that, you look at Oakland Soul and you look at Oakland Roots, right. They are here. They are Oakland. You get what I’m saying? And I don’t, I don’t never see them, you know, packing up and going out. I only see them growing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My sons are humongous soccer fans, so they know all the players. They know everything about it. So, it was just a wonderful opportunity that I had to kind of just, I had to do it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So you, where you are in your career again, both in the the DJ realm, the production realm, you also have these two little ones that you mentioned before, your children, and also your wife, I’m like, your family, what does it mean to them to see you in the position that you’re in?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I tell you this about my boys, man, and one of the things I love the most, because they love music and they love basketball. I’m able to provide them resources that I didn’t have coming up, which is a blessing. I mean, these boys are playing AAU basketball, you know, karate, soccer league, they doing all the sports. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They have a story within themselves, like, they were able to be in a parade twice. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music playing]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>DJ D Sharp:\u003c/strong> So my whole family, we had our own car in a parade, and they waving to people and doing all this stuff, so it’s like, especially my 11 year old, to see his confidence. And, you know, I love it. Like, he’s a confident kid. He’s like, real headstrong. He knows what he wants and he he goes for it. That’s all I can ask, man.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sounds like you’re passing on more than a championship ring.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s the whole thing about fatherhood, you just want, you want to give them what you didn’t have, but you also want to teach them things, valuable lessons you’ve learned and pass them on, so yeah.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congrats to that!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thank you:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw, host: \u003c/b>One more time for DJ D Sharp. Thank you for your time, your story and your work!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the info on his latest music projects can be found on his Instagram at DJD Sharp, all one word. Or check out his music on any streaming platform, under DJ D Sharp.\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This episode was hosted by me, Pendarvis Harshaw. Marisol Medina-Cadena produced this episode. Chris Egusa and Chris Hambrick both held it down for edits. We call that the Chris cross connection. Christopher Beale engineered this joint. The music you heard was courtesy of D Sharp. The Rightnowish team is also supported by Jen Chien, Ugur Dursun, Holly Kernan, Cesar Saldaña, and Katie Sprenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you like what you hear and have the means to do so, we ask that you consider supporting dope local programming like this show. Visit KQED dot org slash donate. We appreciate ya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rightnowish is a KQED production. Until next time, peace\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp, guest:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Thunder was the mascot for the Warriors. You probably know this story, Pen, the story about how they went to China and he never came back. Like, he got married and settled and had a family over there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I did not hear this story at all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t know if it was PR or it was a fan. It’s crazy, look it up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pen Harshaw, host\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: We did look it up. And buried on the Warriors official Youtube page, we found this: a 10 year old video explaining why the Dubs’ beloved mascot Thunder is no longer with the team.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Clip from “Thunder: Found in China”:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I came to China with the Warriors for the NBA China Games in 2008, and I started dancing with Chinese fans like I had never danced before. I also met the love of my life here in China and never looked back and I’m not coming back.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Life, love, dunking and dancing, China has it all for me. At first there were struggles fitting in, but I found an inner peace. And I want you to know. While I miss you dearly, Warriors fans, you taught me what it was to be thunder. But now my home is China. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Music playing]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw, Host:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What’s up Rightnowish listeners, it’s your guy, Pendarvis Harshaw. Tapping in with my Warriors fans out there. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Sigh]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What a season, talk about some highs and some lows, maybe the end of a dynasty. Who knows? Look, I’m not trying to wallow in the sad news– cause there’s always next year, right? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At least there’s one thing we know for sure: in 2025 the NBA-All Stars game is coming to the Bay, so you know it’s gonna be lit with events in the Town and in Frisco and one person who is sure to be in the mix: DJ D Sharp.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He’s the Warriors in-house DJ, which means during a game, when there’s a break in the action or even sometimes while the ball is in play, you can hear him on the 1s and 2s. And every once in a while you can even look up and see him stunting on the jumbotron. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On top of being the Warriors DJ, he’s a hip-hop producer. Recently he’s done projects with North Oakland’s ST Spittin and the group, MacArthur Maze. He’s been producing for just about as long as he’s been a DJ– dating back to his teens. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a guy who was raised in East Oakland, DJ D Sharp says it’s been a dream being a part of the Warriors franchise.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp, guest:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I don’t take none of it for granted. Like, it’s an amazing experience to deejay in front of 20,000 people every night and to get the love from the people too. It’s just amazing, bro. Like, I’m blessed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So for this episode, we chop it up about his journey to the Warriors, providing the soundtrack for a basketball dynasty and what legacy he’s building for the Town and his family, coming up after this. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bringing you into the discussion today, excited to talk to you because you are at the helm of something very important: you provide the soundtrack to one of my favorite sports teams. And you’ve produced some really tight projects over the last couple of years out of, out of the East Bay. Let’s start at the start. What came first: deejaying or producing?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deejaying most definitely came first. I was collecting records and like, the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yo! MTV Rap\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> era, like, it was just like, I loved it and I couldn’t, you know, step away from the TV. I was always tuned in, dialed in. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What was the first piece of equipment you had?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The first piece of equipment I had was my mom’s turn table. It was some off-brand name. I was on that thing learning. And then I was like, oh, I need a mixer and then I got a mixer from the homie down the street.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But my pops is uh, he’s a musician and he played the keyboards and he had bands and all that kind of stuff. So he’d buy the latest drum machine, and then I’d just be playing on it, and then next thing you know, he’d forget about it and he giving it to me.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music playing]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I caught on a real fast to the point where I think that’s why people started giving me equipment, giving me records and giving me stuff because they were seeing it. They was like, yo, he got it. Like, take this and go play. Go, go, go, go, experiment with this and then come back to me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What age are we talking about here?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 12. 13. 14.\u003c/span>\u003cb> I \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">had homies in Richmond, who I would go spend a weekend, every other weekend with them. My boy Aaron ,we were the same age, so we would we would hang out and his brothers was deejays. So I go to they house and just get equipment. Like, I come home with records.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was a community effort.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was a community effort for sure.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So a lot of these factors pouring into you, a lot of Bay area energy. You said either in the town or in Richmond. You did mention that \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yo! MTV Raps\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> having that influence on you as well.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I’m wondering like, does this whole trope about, you know, all Bay area music all sounds the same and how like there’s an east coast sound and a west coast sound, did that ever play a part in you developing your style?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When people heard me out deejaying and it’d be like the first question they asked me all the time was, was I from the east coast, “because you don’t you don’t deejay like these other cats. Like you, where are you from?” I’m like ‘I’m from East Oakland.’ Like, you know what I’m saying? They’d be like, “What?” I’d be like, ‘Yeah.’\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, being from the Town, you know, it’s all about the knock. It’s all about the slump. It’s all about, you know,415’s. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music playing]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So I came from that but also came from the choppin’ samples and that side of hip hop is the drum breaks and stuff like that. So like I’m taking the drum breaking and adding 808 to it, you get what I’m saying, like, you know,Too $hort, like, “In The Trunk” Like you listen to “In The Trunk” that’s what that is. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can hear it in my sound in a production, like, for me, I grew up loving Gang Starr as much as I love Ant Banks and Spice 1. I love Too $hort just as much as I loved Big Daddy Kane.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was just immersed in hip hop.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those early days of getting into the game and you start working with some, some pretty heavyweight names in the industry.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a time period, you were tour deejay for Lauryn Hill?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes! ‘Cause Kev Choice had tapped me to be the tour DJ for Lauryn because she tapped him to be the music director. Me and Kev go way back to Brookfield Elementary. You know, anytime he thinks of a DJ, anytime I think of, some, a multi instrumentalist, I think, of Kev. So we collab and we always look out for each other.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, yeah, Lauryn Hill was craz and it was a dope run, and I learned a lot from her. We all did.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I became a tour deejay all the way up until 2010, so you talking ten years.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We toured heavy with will.i.am. And I saw will.i.am at a Warriors game. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music playing]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And he was like, “You the Warriors Dj?” He was like “Oh okay, that’s whats up,” you know what I mean. So it all be a full circle moment.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Clip of promotional video] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“One more time, give it up for DJ D Sharp, come on!”\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> [basketball arena crowd cheers] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You’ve mentioned The Warriors, you’ve been there over a dozen years now. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bring me back to the start. How do you land that gig?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">God bless the dead DJ Solomon. He was the first deejay for the Warriors and I argue that he might have been the first deejay in the NBA. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He taught me a lot. He was a peer but he was also a mentor and I met him at a Blackalicious show. He he approached me and he said, “Bro, like your scratching, bro, it’s so crazy. Like, I DJ for the Warriors and you know, we’d love to have you come and just do a 2 x 4 set with me.” I was like ‘Yeah it’s all good,’ we exchanged numbers.” We killed it. We had a good time. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then he was like, “Let’s do it again.”\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And then he would do it with other deejays as well in the community. But then, he got busy, like, he was a part of the whole Serato situation. For those who don’t know, Serrato was the software used by DJs, just like, the number one software. But like, if you look back at the promo, bro is on the promo with like Z trip, DJ Jazzy Jeff, like Qbert, like with all the these heavy hitter deejays. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He got busy. So he couldn’t do a lot of games. So he would, like, send out these emails to a bunch of DJs and, and, you know, for some reason, it felt like I was always the one who answered the emails.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is when the Warriors sucked too, right. This is like pre, “we believe.” And then when “we believe” came like I was still filling in for him. But he did like all that playoff run and all that kind of stuff. And then up until 2012, he… man, yeah, he passed away, man, and then the Warriors offered me the gig.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before the Dynasty and Steph, Klay and Dre like in the early days like what does it mean to be a part of the entertainment of a team that’s not performing too well?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That was what it was all about. It was about the entertainment, right? because the team wasn’t good. So if you, if you, remember we had Thunder.\u003c/span>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music playing, crowd cheering]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thunder was the mascot for the Warriors. Thunder was the highlight, you know, dunking and doing his thing and going all around the arena ya know what I mean? Thunder was the man.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shout out Brett Yamaguchi, who was the head of all the entertainment. He made it where the entertainment was top notch. Like the t-shirt toss and like, the Warriors dance team and like all of that stuff, like, you know those timeouts, those breaks, those contests, like, all of that stuff was more exciting than the game itself \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[laughs]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> You get what I’m saying?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Warriors chant]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I do remember the arena always being filled. Like, people will always show up for the warriors, like, regardless of the losing seasons and all of that kinda stuff. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m rolling. I’m sorry. Yeah. You’re like “it was always packed,” like, yeah, because people got free tickets from the library, from Lucky’s, Round Table. But yeah, those were good times. You know, there was no winning in sight. I couldn’t foresee a Steph, Klay, Dray, like, dynasty like we have now.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">No one could bro. And that’s the, that’s the magic and the beauty of it all, right?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah. Do you have a certain song that you go to for a certain situation? like say, I don’t know, it’s 24 seconds left on the clock and the Warriors got the ball, they down, you know, a point and you want the crowd to get amped during that half, during that timeout right before the ball comes into play. Do you have a song that will play for folks?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The only song that really that I go like, is a go to song when it’s cracking and is going stupid in there,I did like a house remix for the E-40 remix. 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Because it’s like, you know, I mean, I’ve had Steph, I’ve had Coach Kerr, I’ve had Loon, even GP too like, like I’ve had these brothers come up to me telling me, I make an impact. So it’s dope to hear that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With that said, you’re a valued member of the team. You’ve got championship rings, multiple.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: yeah, \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">No. It’s crazy. There’s one for each member of my family. Me, my wife and my two sons. We got four.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For you personally this year,while, the team has had its ups and downs, and a lot of down, you personally have had some some pretty big highlights, All Sar, All Star 2024?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, I was tapped to go and do All Star 2024. I did the celebrity game and that was fun. You know, that experience is amazing and is coming to the Bay area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You think that this means a lot to the entire Bay area, I’m assuming?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oh for sure, for sure, man.I think the Bay is getting a bad rap right now from the homelessness to everything that’s going on with the crime and bippin’ and all that kind of stuff.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But when you talk to people and you talk to family in other cities and other locations, like, this is going on across the country, across the world, like bippin’ is happening, like it’s worse in Atlanta as far as I know. But it don’t get amplified like it does here in the Bay for some reason.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland gets a bad rap, especially like, we been lost all of our teams. It’s like they trying to like, cleanse us of Oakland. It’s like, what are we doing? Like, no, Oakland is beautiful and it needs to be put on a pedestal.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music playing]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s heartbreaking to see. But at the same time, I think Oakland gonna eventually end up being on top like we always are.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah, as you talk about it, it’s kind of wild to me that you see it on both sides like the professional, the sports team, you were there for the Warriors move away from the town and through the music. The music is always an underdog to the bigger cities. And so playing that role, you’re carrying a lot of weight there!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Again, I see us, like, rising from the ashes like we here, Like, this is what we do. So, yeah, we’ll be aight.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music playing]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So beyond basketball, you’re also part owner of the Oakland Roots soccer team. Like, how did how did that come to be?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That sound crazy, don’t it, right? Shout out my sister, she hit me up. She was like, you know, “There’s rare opportunity to be a part of this, the growth of what’s going on with the Oakland Roots, Oakland Soul.” And she sent me the information and it was kind of like, a no brainer. And it’s going back to like, my kids, like, I’m looking at that. Like, I’m trying to set up something for them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And on top of that, you look at Oakland Soul and you look at Oakland Roots, right. They are here. They are Oakland. You get what I’m saying? And I don’t, I don’t never see them, you know, packing up and going out. I only see them growing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My sons are humongous soccer fans, so they know all the players. They know everything about it. So, it was just a wonderful opportunity that I had to kind of just, I had to do it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So you, where you are in your career again, both in the the DJ realm, the production realm, you also have these two little ones that you mentioned before, your children, and also your wife, I’m like, your family, what does it mean to them to see you in the position that you’re in?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I tell you this about my boys, man, and one of the things I love the most, because they love music and they love basketball. I’m able to provide them resources that I didn’t have coming up, which is a blessing. I mean, these boys are playing AAU basketball, you know, karate, soccer league, they doing all the sports. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They have a story within themselves, like, they were able to be in a parade twice. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music playing]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>DJ D Sharp:\u003c/strong> So my whole family, we had our own car in a parade, and they waving to people and doing all this stuff, so it’s like, especially my 11 year old, to see his confidence. And, you know, I love it. Like, he’s a confident kid. He’s like, real headstrong. He knows what he wants and he he goes for it. That’s all I can ask, man.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sounds like you’re passing on more than a championship ring.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s the whole thing about fatherhood, you just want, you want to give them what you didn’t have, but you also want to teach them things, valuable lessons you’ve learned and pass them on, so yeah.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congrats to that!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thank you:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw, host: \u003c/b>One more time for DJ D Sharp. Thank you for your time, your story and your work!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the info on his latest music projects can be found on his Instagram at DJD Sharp, all one word. Or check out his music on any streaming platform, under DJ D Sharp.\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This episode was hosted by me, Pendarvis Harshaw. Marisol Medina-Cadena produced this episode. Chris Egusa and Chris Hambrick both held it down for edits. We call that the Chris cross connection. Christopher Beale engineered this joint. The music you heard was courtesy of D Sharp. The Rightnowish team is also supported by Jen Chien, Ugur Dursun, Holly Kernan, Cesar Saldaña, and Katie Sprenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you like what you hear and have the means to do so, we ask that you consider supporting dope local programming like this show. Visit KQED dot org slash donate. We appreciate ya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rightnowish is a KQED production. Until next time, peace\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp, guest:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Thunder was the mascot for the Warriors. You probably know this story, Pen, the story about how they went to China and he never came back. Like, he got married and settled and had a family over there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I did not hear this story at all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DJ D Sharp: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t know if it was PR or it was a fan. It’s crazy, look it up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pen Harshaw, host\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: We did look it up. And buried on the Warriors official Youtube page, we found this: a 10 year old video explaining why the Dubs’ beloved mascot Thunder is no longer with the team.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Clip from “Thunder: Found in China”:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I came to China with the Warriors for the NBA China Games in 2008, and I started dancing with Chinese fans like I had never danced before. I also met the love of my life here in China and never looked back and I’m not coming back.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Life, love, dunking and dancing, China has it all for me. At first there were struggles fitting in, but I found an inner peace. And I want you to know. While I miss you dearly, Warriors fans, you taught me what it was to be thunder. But now my home is China. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Dejan Milojević, an assistant coach for the Golden State Warriors, died unexpectedly from a heart attack on Wednesday. He was 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team said Wednesday morning Milojević had been hospitalized the night before during a team dinner in Salt Lake City. About an hour after the team’s announcement, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WarriorsPR/status/1747649384089808930\">the NBA postponed\u003c/a> the Warriors’ Wednesday night game against the Utah Jazz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 3:30 p.m., the team announced Milojević’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are absolutely devastated by Dejan’s sudden passing,” head coach Steve Kerr said. “This is a shocking tragic blow for everyone associated with the Warriors and an incredibly difficult time for his family, friends, and all of us who had the incredible pleasure to work with him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kerr added, “In addition to being a terrific basketball coach, Dejan was one of the most positive and beautiful human beings I have ever known, someone who brought joy and light to every single day with his passion and energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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>\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. 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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": "\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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To understand the weight of this, you must first understand my life as a loyal, non-bandwagon member of Dub Nation, through decades of ridicule and shame when the team would regularly finish as the cellar dwellers of the league. Back when they played at Oracle Arena. Back when the Bay Area felt like a different home, and my teenage self had yet to discover what home really meant to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13922121\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Alan.Chazaro.bio_.headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"181\">But this particular Thursday in June was different. The Warriors were gearing up to claim their fourth Larry O’Brien trophy amid a dynastic run of championship grandeur. It was jolting. It was surreal. And despite the doubting, shit-talking and excuse-making from sports media and internet trolls who had dismissed the Warriors all season (or perhaps, because of it), this day felt particularly glorious for OG fans like myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And still, the game wasn’t even my primary focus. For months, my wife and I had been planning our own little dynasty. After nearly 15 years together — having met in a Chicano Studies class at UC Berkeley as undergrads — we had decided to add a new team member to our squad, and were in the process of trying for our first child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I couldn’t have asked for a better scenario on that Thursday morning. Briana called me into the room to share the news: a positive pregnancy test laid on top of a Warriors onesie. Our child had decided to announce himself that day, as the Warriors were on the verge of hoops history. I cried. Because this wasn’t \u003cem>just\u003c/em> a happy ending for the Warriors, a basketball entity that had been a part of my life since grade school. This was the beginning of a beautiful future: Maceo Agosto Chazaro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dubs ended up winning it all. My wife and I took BART to San Francisco to be at Chase Center with the fans, just a few hours after we’d learned our baby was growing inside her belly. Though the actual game was happening in Boston, we gathered in front of the Warriors’ arena as the last shot splashed and the celebratory drinks poured (my wife, of course, abstaining). That day felt bigger than a championship. It still does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13922123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Kids.Warriors.Chase_-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"Two small children in Warriors gear laugh with their mother nearby in a crowd of sports fans\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Kids.Warriors.Chase_-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Kids.Warriors.Chase_-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Kids.Warriors.Chase_-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Kids.Warriors.Chase_-768x500.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Kids.Warriors.Chase_-1536x999.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Kids.Warriors.Chase_.jpg 1832w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kids play outside Chase Center on June 13, 2022, as the Golden State Warriors win the NBA Finals. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking back on it, I recall what it is that’s always drawn me to the sport — especially as a Mexican American who grew up in an all-male home with my father and older brother. Basketball taught me about myself and what it takes to overcome, even when the odds seem insurmountable. It was never just about scoring on a fast-break dunk or making flashy dribbles. It was about chemistry; about communication; about the synergy of watching humans working in synchronized perfection to reach a collective apex; about rebuilding and trying again. At its best, a sports team can represent an entire region’s pride and identity, like a family’s last name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I think of baby Chazaro entering the world, I wonder how he’ll fit into the rhythm and structure of our unit. How we’ll have to adapt, and apply everything we know in order to coach him up. How our fun-sized rookie will develop his own skills and talents as we provide a healthy environment for him to thrive into his full potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be turnovers. There will be miscommunications. There will be losses. Hella losses — particularly a loss of sleep, as I’ve been told by other parents. But I doubt that will really matter when those moments of joy, growth and achievement are finally reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I won’t ever know exactly what those players felt in that locker room on the night they banded together to win it all. But I’ll always remember the feeling of euphoria and limitless possibility that coursed through me on that June day, when Briana and I realized we’d taken the biggest shot of our lives. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I couldn’t have asked for a better scenario on that Thursday morning. Briana called me into the room to share the news: a positive pregnancy test laid on top of a Warriors onesie. Our child had decided to announce himself that day, as the Warriors were on the verge of hoops history. I cried. Because this wasn’t \u003cem>just\u003c/em> a happy ending for the Warriors, a basketball entity that had been a part of my life since grade school. This was the beginning of a beautiful future: Maceo Agosto Chazaro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dubs ended up winning it all. My wife and I took BART to San Francisco to be at Chase Center with the fans, just a few hours after we’d learned our baby was growing inside her belly. Though the actual game was happening in Boston, we gathered in front of the Warriors’ arena as the last shot splashed and the celebratory drinks poured (my wife, of course, abstaining). That day felt bigger than a championship. It still does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13922123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Kids.Warriors.Chase_-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"Two small children in Warriors gear laugh with their mother nearby in a crowd of sports fans\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Kids.Warriors.Chase_-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Kids.Warriors.Chase_-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Kids.Warriors.Chase_-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Kids.Warriors.Chase_-768x500.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Kids.Warriors.Chase_-1536x999.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Kids.Warriors.Chase_.jpg 1832w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kids play outside Chase Center on June 13, 2022, as the Golden State Warriors win the NBA Finals. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking back on it, I recall what it is that’s always drawn me to the sport — especially as a Mexican American who grew up in an all-male home with my father and older brother. Basketball taught me about myself and what it takes to overcome, even when the odds seem insurmountable. It was never just about scoring on a fast-break dunk or making flashy dribbles. It was about chemistry; about communication; about the synergy of watching humans working in synchronized perfection to reach a collective apex; about rebuilding and trying again. At its best, a sports team can represent an entire region’s pride and identity, like a family’s last name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I think of baby Chazaro entering the world, I wonder how he’ll fit into the rhythm and structure of our unit. How we’ll have to adapt, and apply everything we know in order to coach him up. How our fun-sized rookie will develop his own skills and talents as we provide a healthy environment for him to thrive into his full potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be turnovers. There will be miscommunications. There will be losses. Hella losses — particularly a loss of sleep, as I’ve been told by other parents. But I doubt that will really matter when those moments of joy, growth and achievement are finally reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I won’t ever know exactly what those players felt in that locker room on the night they banded together to win it all. But I’ll always remember the feeling of euphoria and limitless possibility that coursed through me on that June day, when Briana and I realized we’d taken the biggest shot of our lives. As a team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.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\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Stephen Curry has been known to cook defenders. Since entering the league in 2009 as the number seven pick for the Golden State Warriors, the undersized guard has been serving NBA defenses his signature dish: treys a-la-carte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O.K. Maybe I’m forcing that food angle a bit. But there’s a reason he’s garnered international respect as “The Chef.” And for those of us who’ve been around for his legacy, it’s been delicious to experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13914214,arts_13914585']At the start of 2021—last season—the Warriors began their campaign as non-favorites. Their starting five? James Wiseman, a newbie center who had played a total of seven NBA games; a forward in Kelly Oubre Jr. who began the year with a horrendous 3-point shooting percentage (\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/warriors-kelly-oubre-historically-bad-3-point-shooting-start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">literally the worst to ever start a professional basketball season\u003c/a>); a freshly acquired \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/warriors-kelly-oubre-historically-bad-3-point-shooting-start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Wiggins, who was deemed a bust\u003c/a>; a recovering Draymond Green who hadn’t played much due to lingering ailments; and Steph Wardell Curry, the former two-time MVP who had also missed significant playing time from prolonged wrist and ankle injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one will remember a game like Jan. 4, 2021, when a depleted Golden State roster faced off against the Sacramento Kings. By halftime, Steph had racked up 23 points, four assists, and three rebounds in 19 minutes—including a sick alley-oop to the rookie, Wiseman. With a victory, the Dubs reached a winning record for the first time since 2019, when they finished with a franchise-low mark of 15 wins and 50 losses. But with Curry back on the team, players like Mark Mulder and Brad Wanamaker (you’ve probably forgotten about them already) were suddenly able to somehow win games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As usual, Dub Nation’s hopes hinged on a miracle recipe that only Steph himself could whip up to get the team back in contention. And he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914953\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914953\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Warriors2018Champions_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Basketball players in group photo holding up championship rings\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Warriors2018Champions_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Warriors2018Champions_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Warriors2018Champions_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Warriors2018Champions_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Warriors2018Champions_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors celebrate after receiving their 2017–2018 Championship rings. \u003ccite>(Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it comes to superstars lifting up their franchises, it’s part of a gig we’ve seen before. LeBron has done it. Kobe did it. Jordan certainly did it. Magic Johnson. Larry Bird. You name them, they’ve done it. But why is it that some critics still believe Curry is incapable of being among these top chefs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any longtime Warriors fan knows how much Curry has already done to reach this point—and the fact that he has done it multiple times, across a span of 13 years, is nothing short of otherworldly. He’s been doing it since 2009 at Oracle, when he notched \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDBaDqrWBEI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his first career triple double\u003c/a>. And in 2012, when he led a six-seed Dubs to the Western Conference Semifinals for the first time since 1976. And he continued to do it from 2015 until 2019, when the Warriors went on to become one of the most dominant franchises in NBA history, racking up three championships, the all-time most regular season wins, and five NBA Finals appearances in just as many years—all under his guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, when he introduced a sous chef by the name of Kevin Durant in 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://heavy.com/sports/golden-state-warriors/kevin-durant-step-curry-twitter-drama/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it ruined the flavors\u003c/a>. It was unforgivable for many, and suddenly, Curry became seen as incapable of running his own kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914954\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200.jpg\" alt='Curry seen from back with arms outstretched and both hands in \"OK\" signs' width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry celebrates a basket during the fourth quarter against the Boston Celtics in Game Five of the 2022 NBA Finals at Chase Center on June 13, 2022 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s time to forget all that noise and fully recognize Curry for what he is: the most distinguished, seasoned athlete of his generation. From a lifetime of watching this ball club, I’m telling you that Steph single-handedly (or single-splashedly?) transformed the aura around the franchise in a way that only the game’s GOATs have ever been capable of doing. Before Steph, the Warriors hadn’t delivered anything except Ls and a second round playoff appearance—and that was once, when Baron Davis led an incredibly charged “We Believe” unit in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being dismissed in the draft, Steph gave us hope by proceeding to dismantle defenses with his scrawny stature and sniping his way into sports history, elevating the Warriors to heights not even Wilt Chamberlain, Rick Barry or Chris Mullin could achieve. Curry fed us that belief. Not KD. Not Steve Kerr. Not my Aquarian brother, Klay Thompson. Not any reason or excuse you can conjure about opposing teams’ injuries, luck or privilege that get mindlessly tossed around to divert attention from Curry’s epic achievements. It has simply been Steph—the original Splash Brother, and the Bay Area’s most improbable Chef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through it all, \u003ca href=\"https://howtheyplay.com/team-sports/Why-Steph-Curry-Is-Overrated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he has been slandered as “overrated”\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://theundefeated.com/features/why-is-steph-curry-still-dissed-so-much-he-doesnt-fit-the-stereotype-of-nba-greatness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dissed for “lacking the prototypical superhero stature.”\u003c/a> I’ve heard everything about Steph’s hairstyle, his height, his skin tone, \u003ca href=\"https://thespun.com/more/top-stories/steph-curry-parents-divorce-dell-sonya-boyfriend-girlfriend-rumors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his parents’ relationship\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/warriors/article/Boston-bar-feuds-with-Currys-17244552.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">even his wife Ayesha’s cooking\u003c/a> (known for her actual cooking skills as an owner of the San Francisco restaurant, \u003ca href=\"https://www.michaelmina.net/restaurants/international-smoke-locations/san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Smoke\u003c/a>)—irrelevant factors that are used to nitpick at him in ways I’ve never seen directed so obsessively towards any other male athlete. There’s a level of alpha toxicity that permeates those attacks, as if somehow being a humble, smiley, worry-free man makes him incapable of greatness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914955\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200.jpg\" alt='Curry with towel over head and both arms up in \"huh?\" gesture' width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry reacts after teammate Draymond Green shot a free throw during the second quarter against the Boston Celtics in Game Five of the 2022 NBA Finals at Chase Center on June 13, 2022 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I’ll admit, Curry isn’t the perfect player. 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He not only makes the flow of a game fun and playfully light to watch, but gets teammates involved without ever forcing them into submission or fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the ultra levels of doubt that have always followed Steph—from Davidson, North Carolina, to Oakland and San Francisco, California—he still manages to drop 43-point culinary gems against number-one-ranked defenses like the Boston Celtics in Game Four of a decisive series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, yes, Curry deserves his flowers because for too long he has been disrespected by salty pundits as a mere product of better players and coaching systems around him. But no one is bailing him out this time, and he doesn’t need it. The Chef himself is cooking yet another round of NBA defenders on his way to an exclamatory—and untouchable—chance at a fourth championship. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At the start of 2021—last season—the Warriors began their campaign as non-favorites. Their starting five? James Wiseman, a newbie center who had played a total of seven NBA games; a forward in Kelly Oubre Jr. who began the year with a horrendous 3-point shooting percentage (\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/warriors-kelly-oubre-historically-bad-3-point-shooting-start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">literally the worst to ever start a professional basketball season\u003c/a>); a freshly acquired \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/warriors-kelly-oubre-historically-bad-3-point-shooting-start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Wiggins, who was deemed a bust\u003c/a>; a recovering Draymond Green who hadn’t played much due to lingering ailments; and Steph Wardell Curry, the former two-time MVP who had also missed significant playing time from prolonged wrist and ankle injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one will remember a game like Jan. 4, 2021, when a depleted Golden State roster faced off against the Sacramento Kings. By halftime, Steph had racked up 23 points, four assists, and three rebounds in 19 minutes—including a sick alley-oop to the rookie, Wiseman. With a victory, the Dubs reached a winning record for the first time since 2019, when they finished with a franchise-low mark of 15 wins and 50 losses. But with Curry back on the team, players like Mark Mulder and Brad Wanamaker (you’ve probably forgotten about them already) were suddenly able to somehow win games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As usual, Dub Nation’s hopes hinged on a miracle recipe that only Steph himself could whip up to get the team back in contention. And he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914953\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914953\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Warriors2018Champions_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Basketball players in group photo holding up championship rings\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Warriors2018Champions_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Warriors2018Champions_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Warriors2018Champions_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Warriors2018Champions_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Warriors2018Champions_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors celebrate after receiving their 2017–2018 Championship rings. \u003ccite>(Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it comes to superstars lifting up their franchises, it’s part of a gig we’ve seen before. LeBron has done it. Kobe did it. Jordan certainly did it. Magic Johnson. Larry Bird. You name them, they’ve done it. But why is it that some critics still believe Curry is incapable of being among these top chefs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any longtime Warriors fan knows how much Curry has already done to reach this point—and the fact that he has done it multiple times, across a span of 13 years, is nothing short of otherworldly. He’s been doing it since 2009 at Oracle, when he notched \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDBaDqrWBEI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his first career triple double\u003c/a>. And in 2012, when he led a six-seed Dubs to the Western Conference Semifinals for the first time since 1976. And he continued to do it from 2015 until 2019, when the Warriors went on to become one of the most dominant franchises in NBA history, racking up three championships, the all-time most regular season wins, and five NBA Finals appearances in just as many years—all under his guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, when he introduced a sous chef by the name of Kevin Durant in 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://heavy.com/sports/golden-state-warriors/kevin-durant-step-curry-twitter-drama/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it ruined the flavors\u003c/a>. It was unforgivable for many, and suddenly, Curry became seen as incapable of running his own kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914954\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200.jpg\" alt='Curry seen from back with arms outstretched and both hands in \"OK\" signs' width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/CurryBack_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry celebrates a basket during the fourth quarter against the Boston Celtics in Game Five of the 2022 NBA Finals at Chase Center on June 13, 2022 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s time to forget all that noise and fully recognize Curry for what he is: the most distinguished, seasoned athlete of his generation. From a lifetime of watching this ball club, I’m telling you that Steph single-handedly (or single-splashedly?) transformed the aura around the franchise in a way that only the game’s GOATs have ever been capable of doing. Before Steph, the Warriors hadn’t delivered anything except Ls and a second round playoff appearance—and that was once, when Baron Davis led an incredibly charged “We Believe” unit in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being dismissed in the draft, Steph gave us hope by proceeding to dismantle defenses with his scrawny stature and sniping his way into sports history, elevating the Warriors to heights not even Wilt Chamberlain, Rick Barry or Chris Mullin could achieve. Curry fed us that belief. Not KD. Not Steve Kerr. Not my Aquarian brother, Klay Thompson. Not any reason or excuse you can conjure about opposing teams’ injuries, luck or privilege that get mindlessly tossed around to divert attention from Curry’s epic achievements. It has simply been Steph—the original Splash Brother, and the Bay Area’s most improbable Chef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through it all, \u003ca href=\"https://howtheyplay.com/team-sports/Why-Steph-Curry-Is-Overrated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he has been slandered as “overrated”\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://theundefeated.com/features/why-is-steph-curry-still-dissed-so-much-he-doesnt-fit-the-stereotype-of-nba-greatness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dissed for “lacking the prototypical superhero stature.”\u003c/a> I’ve heard everything about Steph’s hairstyle, his height, his skin tone, \u003ca href=\"https://thespun.com/more/top-stories/steph-curry-parents-divorce-dell-sonya-boyfriend-girlfriend-rumors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his parents’ relationship\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/warriors/article/Boston-bar-feuds-with-Currys-17244552.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">even his wife Ayesha’s cooking\u003c/a> (known for her actual cooking skills as an owner of the San Francisco restaurant, \u003ca href=\"https://www.michaelmina.net/restaurants/international-smoke-locations/san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Smoke\u003c/a>)—irrelevant factors that are used to nitpick at him in ways I’ve never seen directed so obsessively towards any other male athlete. There’s a level of alpha toxicity that permeates those attacks, as if somehow being a humble, smiley, worry-free man makes him incapable of greatness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914955\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200.jpg\" alt='Curry with towel over head and both arms up in \"huh?\" gesture' width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/StephTowel_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry reacts after teammate Draymond Green shot a free throw during the second quarter against the Boston Celtics in Game Five of the 2022 NBA Finals at Chase Center on June 13, 2022 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I’ll admit, Curry isn’t the perfect player. He has struggled in major games at times. He doesn’t show that same “Mamba Mentality” to destroy another person’s soul like Kobe once did; he can’t bulldoze his way through the lane to overpower his defenders like LeBron; and he’s as far as can be from having the pitbullish defense and murderous anger of Jordan. But what those guys didn’t have—besides Steph’s unbelievable shooting ability—was Curry’s finesse. He not only makes the flow of a game fun and playfully light to watch, but gets teammates involved without ever forcing them into submission or fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the ultra levels of doubt that have always followed Steph—from Davidson, North Carolina, to Oakland and San Francisco, California—he still manages to drop 43-point culinary gems against number-one-ranked defenses like the Boston Celtics in Game Four of a decisive series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, yes, Curry deserves his flowers because for too long he has been disrespected by salty pundits as a mere product of better players and coaching systems around him. But no one is bailing him out this time, and he doesn’t need it. The Chef himself is cooking yet another round of NBA defenders on his way to an exclamatory—and untouchable—chance at a fourth championship. Win or lose, we’re lucky to have a seat at his table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Jeremy Castro couldn’t stand watching Warriors fans \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6NbSFIH7tU\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">throw their gold promotional shirts\u003c/a> at NBA analyst and noted Warriors hater Charles Barkley on national TV. After all, he’s trying to cut waste from his San Leandro screen printing shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not what they’re for,” says Castro, a day after the Warriors eliminated the Dallas Mavericks and fans unleashed on Barkley outside of San Francisco’s Chase Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a Friday afternoon, and in the humming warehouse of Castro’s shop \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/brandmarinade/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Brand Marinade\u003c/a>, production has started on the NBA Finals variation of “Gold Blooded” shirts that will be draped over 18,000 seats before each Warriors home game. Golden State faces the Boston Celtics in search of its fourth title in eight seasons, with Game 1 on Thursday, June 2, at Chase Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the world of sports merchandising, Brand Marinade is a relatively small, local operation working around the clock to meet demand for its largest contract yet. Rooted in the Bay Area with a hip-hop background, the company is a natural fit with the Warriors—even while navigating supply issues and reacting quickly to wins and losses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/006_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914243\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/006_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/006_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/006_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/006_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/006_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/006_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rich Diaz prepares Warriors finals t-shirts to print on the sleeve at Brand Marinade screen printing shop in San Leandro on May 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Having people wear something with pride is my passion,” says Castro, 45, who believes an arena flooded in gold can provide a home-court advantage. He may be right: the Warriors are 9-0 at home this postseason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes five days for Castro’s team to print 20,000 shirts—two-plus days if they work through the night, rotating shifts. But, as he puts it, “The energy from the shirts is exponential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Predicting Wins and Losses\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re struggling to find an extra-large gold shirt this summer, Todd Schneiderman is to blame. His Nashville-based company, Something Inked, is the Warriors’ promotions partner. In January, the vice president of sales evaluated the national sports landscape and purchased large quantities of color shirts. The Warriors’ gold shirts could have easily been gold Michigan Wolverines championship shirts, or gold Nashville Predators playoff shirts, or gold Indiana Pacers… (actually, never mind). This year, blue shirts expected to be printed for the Los Angeles Clippers, who missed the playoffs, ended up with Mavericks fans for the series against the Warriors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The promotional shirts are extra large because, as Castro explains, “A fat guy can squeeze into it, a small person can swear it into a dress or to bed, women can cut it up as a halter top. Then you don’t have to deal with the size issue, which is the biggest challenge with T-shirts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/003_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914238\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/003_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/003_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/003_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/003_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/003_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/003_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An employee folds Warriors finals t-shirts at Brand Marinade screen printing shop in San Leandro on May 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like a Las Vegas odds-maker, Schneiderman projects game outcomes to help printers have enough time to produce inventory while limiting waste. During the West finals, after the Warriors took a 3-0 series lead, Castro printed a “pre-buy” batch of shirts in case the Warriors lost Game 4—they did—and the series returned to Chase Center for Game 5. The risk is that if the Warriors had won Game 4 to end the series, shirts made for Game 5 would likely have been given away at Finals watch parties. The biggest risk, of course, is printing championship apparel in advance for a team that loses the title. Those shirts are trashed or shipped to other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am kind of numb to it at this point,” says Schneiderman of having production determined by a Stephen Curry three-pointer or Draymond Green blocked shot. “It’s more of a sick-to-the-stomach feeling. The same thing happened with the Grizzlies, when the Warriors had that crap game (prompting a Game 6 at Chase Center).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schneiderman couldn’t procure enough gold shirts for the entire playoffs, so fans received black “Gold Blooded” shirts for the first two rounds. “It didn’t have the same effect,” he admits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Warriors shirt orders, Schneiderman typically works with Blue Frog, a shop in San Leandro. When Blue Frog had a backlog of orders, the print company outsourced much of the Warriors project to Brand Marinade. Castro, who founded Brand Marinade in 2009 and had never received an order this large, put less time-sensitive orders on hold and jumped at the chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/027_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914241\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/027_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/027_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/027_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/027_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/027_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/027_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Castro, the owner of Brand Marinade, poses for a portrait at the screen printing shop in San Leandro on May 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An East Bay Operation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, Castro estimates 50% of local print shops have closed or left the Bay Area for cheaper rent. Supply-chain bottlenecks, compounded by the coronavirus shutdown and subsequent restrictions, have put a premium on printing locally to reduce delivery time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday in San Leandro, an eight-color, 10-station press prints the new “Gold Blooded” design—provided by the Warriors—to the front of the gold shirts. The freshly printed logo is then cured with a dryer, after which the shirts are stacked and moved to another press that prints a shoulder sleeve logo of that round’s playoff sponsor. Before the shirts leave the warehouse, they’re folded and boxed for distribution at Chase Center, where they’re neatly placed on seats before fans enter the arena. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a high shelf in the warehouse, Castro points to a small screen printer once used by his uncle to teach inmates at San Quentin State Prison. Castro was gifted the printer, and as an Alameda High School math teacher in 2003, he used it to make spirit week shirts for the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda native has been hooked by the power of apparel ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/018_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914239\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/018_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/018_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/018_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/018_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/018_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/018_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screens for Too Short line a shelf at Brand Marinade screen printing shop in San Leandro on May 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2020, when Mali Watkins, a Black man, was wrestled to the ground and arrested by Alameda police for dancing in the street, Castro printed “Dancing In The Street For Justice” shirts in protest. During the coronavirus quarantine that same year, he converted shirt inventory to masks and donated them throughout Oakland with NFL star Marshawn Lynch. When wildfires ravaged the state, Castro donated color-coded shirts to help organize volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brand Marinade’s high-profile clients include Lynch, whose Beast Mode apparel is synonymous with Oakland culture; Oakland rapper Too Short; and Ruff Ryders, the label of the late East Coast rapper DMX. An influx of prospective corporate contracts gives Castro hope that he’ll reach a goal of 50 employees, and move out of the 15,000-square-foot warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Championship Grind\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Golden State reaches a potential title-clinching game, Castro plans to hold a staff viewing party in the warehouse. Should the Warriors prevail, Brand Marinade would start 36 consecutive hours of printing to meet the demands of retail, as well as a victory parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/021_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/021_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/021_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/021_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/021_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/021_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/021_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Employees fold piles of Warriors finals t-shirts at Brand Marinade screen printing shop in San Leandro on May 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Manager Nick Hankins is one of the few Brand Marinade employees who has experienced the championship grind, having worked for a Sacramento shop that produced postseason gear during the San Francisco Giants’ 2012 championship run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for keeping a positive attitude through the arduous and often monotonous process, workers rely on “jokes, music and snacks,” Hankins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be physically challenging on the production side,” he adds. “This is one of the biggest projects anyone has seen here.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jeremy Castro couldn’t stand watching Warriors fans \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6NbSFIH7tU\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">throw their gold promotional shirts\u003c/a> at NBA analyst and noted Warriors hater Charles Barkley on national TV. After all, he’s trying to cut waste from his San Leandro screen printing shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not what they’re for,” says Castro, a day after the Warriors eliminated the Dallas Mavericks and fans unleashed on Barkley outside of San Francisco’s Chase Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a Friday afternoon, and in the humming warehouse of Castro’s shop \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/brandmarinade/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Brand Marinade\u003c/a>, production has started on the NBA Finals variation of “Gold Blooded” shirts that will be draped over 18,000 seats before each Warriors home game. Golden State faces the Boston Celtics in search of its fourth title in eight seasons, with Game 1 on Thursday, June 2, at Chase Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the world of sports merchandising, Brand Marinade is a relatively small, local operation working around the clock to meet demand for its largest contract yet. Rooted in the Bay Area with a hip-hop background, the company is a natural fit with the Warriors—even while navigating supply issues and reacting quickly to wins and losses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/006_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914243\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/006_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/006_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/006_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/006_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/006_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/006_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rich Diaz prepares Warriors finals t-shirts to print on the sleeve at Brand Marinade screen printing shop in San Leandro on May 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Having people wear something with pride is my passion,” says Castro, 45, who believes an arena flooded in gold can provide a home-court advantage. He may be right: the Warriors are 9-0 at home this postseason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes five days for Castro’s team to print 20,000 shirts—two-plus days if they work through the night, rotating shifts. But, as he puts it, “The energy from the shirts is exponential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Predicting Wins and Losses\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re struggling to find an extra-large gold shirt this summer, Todd Schneiderman is to blame. His Nashville-based company, Something Inked, is the Warriors’ promotions partner. In January, the vice president of sales evaluated the national sports landscape and purchased large quantities of color shirts. The Warriors’ gold shirts could have easily been gold Michigan Wolverines championship shirts, or gold Nashville Predators playoff shirts, or gold Indiana Pacers… (actually, never mind). This year, blue shirts expected to be printed for the Los Angeles Clippers, who missed the playoffs, ended up with Mavericks fans for the series against the Warriors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The promotional shirts are extra large because, as Castro explains, “A fat guy can squeeze into it, a small person can swear it into a dress or to bed, women can cut it up as a halter top. Then you don’t have to deal with the size issue, which is the biggest challenge with T-shirts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/003_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914238\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/003_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/003_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/003_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/003_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/003_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/003_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An employee folds Warriors finals t-shirts at Brand Marinade screen printing shop in San Leandro on May 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like a Las Vegas odds-maker, Schneiderman projects game outcomes to help printers have enough time to produce inventory while limiting waste. During the West finals, after the Warriors took a 3-0 series lead, Castro printed a “pre-buy” batch of shirts in case the Warriors lost Game 4—they did—and the series returned to Chase Center for Game 5. The risk is that if the Warriors had won Game 4 to end the series, shirts made for Game 5 would likely have been given away at Finals watch parties. The biggest risk, of course, is printing championship apparel in advance for a team that loses the title. Those shirts are trashed or shipped to other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am kind of numb to it at this point,” says Schneiderman of having production determined by a Stephen Curry three-pointer or Draymond Green blocked shot. “It’s more of a sick-to-the-stomach feeling. The same thing happened with the Grizzlies, when the Warriors had that crap game (prompting a Game 6 at Chase Center).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schneiderman couldn’t procure enough gold shirts for the entire playoffs, so fans received black “Gold Blooded” shirts for the first two rounds. “It didn’t have the same effect,” he admits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Warriors shirt orders, Schneiderman typically works with Blue Frog, a shop in San Leandro. When Blue Frog had a backlog of orders, the print company outsourced much of the Warriors project to Brand Marinade. Castro, who founded Brand Marinade in 2009 and had never received an order this large, put less time-sensitive orders on hold and jumped at the chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/027_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914241\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/027_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/027_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/027_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/027_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/027_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/027_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Castro, the owner of Brand Marinade, poses for a portrait at the screen printing shop in San Leandro on May 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An East Bay Operation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, Castro estimates 50% of local print shops have closed or left the Bay Area for cheaper rent. Supply-chain bottlenecks, compounded by the coronavirus shutdown and subsequent restrictions, have put a premium on printing locally to reduce delivery time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday in San Leandro, an eight-color, 10-station press prints the new “Gold Blooded” design—provided by the Warriors—to the front of the gold shirts. The freshly printed logo is then cured with a dryer, after which the shirts are stacked and moved to another press that prints a shoulder sleeve logo of that round’s playoff sponsor. Before the shirts leave the warehouse, they’re folded and boxed for distribution at Chase Center, where they’re neatly placed on seats before fans enter the arena. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a high shelf in the warehouse, Castro points to a small screen printer once used by his uncle to teach inmates at San Quentin State Prison. Castro was gifted the printer, and as an Alameda High School math teacher in 2003, he used it to make spirit week shirts for the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda native has been hooked by the power of apparel ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/018_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914239\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/018_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/018_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/018_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/018_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/018_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/018_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screens for Too Short line a shelf at Brand Marinade screen printing shop in San Leandro on May 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2020, when Mali Watkins, a Black man, was wrestled to the ground and arrested by Alameda police for dancing in the street, Castro printed “Dancing In The Street For Justice” shirts in protest. During the coronavirus quarantine that same year, he converted shirt inventory to masks and donated them throughout Oakland with NFL star Marshawn Lynch. When wildfires ravaged the state, Castro donated color-coded shirts to help organize volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brand Marinade’s high-profile clients include Lynch, whose Beast Mode apparel is synonymous with Oakland culture; Oakland rapper Too Short; and Ruff Ryders, the label of the late East Coast rapper DMX. An influx of prospective corporate contracts gives Castro hope that he’ll reach a goal of 50 employees, and move out of the 15,000-square-foot warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Championship Grind\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Golden State reaches a potential title-clinching game, Castro plans to hold a staff viewing party in the warehouse. Should the Warriors prevail, Brand Marinade would start 36 consecutive hours of printing to meet the demands of retail, as well as a victory parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/021_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/021_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/021_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/021_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/021_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/021_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/021_KQEDArts_WarriorsFinalsTShirts_05272022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Employees fold piles of Warriors finals t-shirts at Brand Marinade screen printing shop in San Leandro on May 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Manager Nick Hankins is one of the few Brand Marinade employees who has experienced the championship grind, having worked for a Sacramento shop that produced postseason gear during the San Francisco Giants’ 2012 championship run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for keeping a positive attitude through the arduous and often monotonous process, workers rely on “jokes, music and snacks,” Hankins says.\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\">A\u003c/span>fter a hiatus these past few months, pro sports are back. And somehow, in the meantime, I’ve converted from a common fan to a social scientist, paying extremely \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13883646/the-strangeness-of-baseball-during-a-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">close attention\u003c/a> and constantly analyzing how they play a part in the oddity that is the year 2020. Thus far, from what I’ve seen, the WNBA and NBA are maintaining health and safety, as well as keeping a focus on social justice—in fact, they’re doing it better than any of the “Big Four” sports leagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve got strict health guidelines and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_NBA_Bubble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now-famous bubbles\u003c/a> to contain the basketball players for the season. The room for social commentary, while limiting (after all, both leagues are businesses), seems to be more flexible than other leagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s entertaining competition. The actual games, aesthetically, are eye-catching. Even with a \u003ca href=\"https://kslsports.com/439132/whats-it-like-to-be-an-nba-virtual-fan-during-a-jazz-game-in-orlando/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">digital display of fans\u003c/a> replacing the normal crowd, it’s not too bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s also not pure escapism. The masks on the faces of everyone sitting on the sidelines is a reminder that we’re living in a pandemic where over 700,000 people around the world (and \u003cem>over one-hundred and sixty thousand people\u003c/em> in the United States) have died from the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, man, after a long day of work, reading and writing about bad news on top of bad news, confined to my house with no one to talk to, there’s nothing like yelling at my screen while Oakland-raised NBA superstar Damian Lillard goes for 51 points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13884661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Lillard.HowManyMore.jpg\" alt=\"Damian Lillard, in a jersey reading 'How Many More,' worn during the 2020 NBA season.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Lillard.HowManyMore.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Lillard.HowManyMore-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Lillard.HowManyMore-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damian Lillard, in a jersey reading ‘How Many More,’ worn during the 2020 NBA season. \u003ccite>(Via Damian Lillard/IG)\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\">L\u003c/span>illard, who wears the number 0, sports a jersey this season bearing the words “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CDbhxHMgJ9G/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Many More\u003c/a>” across the top. It’s a rhetorical question, posed to the general public, about the number of Black people killed by the police; obviously, the ideal answer is zero. Lillard evidently \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Dame_Lillard/status/1290109760662990850\">wanted to have “Oscar Grant”\u003c/a> on his uniform. But he, like all other NBA players, had to choose from \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07/30/nba-social-justice-jerseys-names-messages/?arc404=true\">a pre-selected list of about 30 social justice terms\u003c/a> the NBA decided to allow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means Lakers guard Alex Caruso—who, aside from the fact he’s 6’5″, is a relatively “normal looking” balding American white dude—now goes to work every day with the words “Black Lives Matter” on the back of his uniform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At press time, Caruso, along with LeBron James and Anthony Davis, have given the Lakers the best record in the Western Conference in this abbreviated NBA season, which is actually a continuation of the suspended season from earlier this year. That means that, although play resumed just about two weeks ago, the “season” will conclude at the end of this week. And then the playoffs start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the WNBA is heading into their fourth week of play; their abbreviated season began in late July and is set to run until mid-September. (Normally the season goes from late May until early October.) Their bubble is located in Bradenton, Florida, at the sports magnet school IMG Academy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the bubbles within that bubble is the attention given to Bay Area-born point guard Sabrina Ionescu. A star rookie from the University of Oregon, Ionescu was drafted number one overall last year by the New York Liberty. Ionescu and her squad opened the season against Sue Bird and the Seattle Storm, and before the National Anthem played, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wnba-storm-liberty-players-walk-off-court-national-anthem/\">both teams walked off the floor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2yu9SLNz-M\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This came on the heels of the league developing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wnba.com/news/wnba-announces-a-2020-season-dedicated-to-social-justice/\">Justice Movement\u003c/a> platform and the WNBA/WNBPA Social Justice Council. According to their press release, “The mission of the Social Justice Council is to be a driving force of necessary and continuing conversations about race, voting rights, LGBTQ+ advocacy, and gun control amongst other important societal issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to teams wearing warm-ups that say “Black Lives Matter” across the front and “Say Her Name” on the back, the Social Justice Council has backed this year’s WNBA’s customized jerseys, which bear \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/angel_35/status/1276273404262313984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1276273404262313984%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Fwnba-players-special-uniforms-for-women-victims-of-police-brutality-racial-violence-black-lives-matter%2F\">Breonna Taylor’s name\u003c/a> across the back. The idea, reportedly brought forward by \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wnba-black-lives-matter-season-social-justice-say-her-name/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Las Vegas Aces star player Angel McCoughtry\u003c/a>, has met some opposition—namely from Senator Kelly Loeffler. A Republican from Georgia and co-owner of the WNBA team the Atlanta Dream, Senator Loeffler has been \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenatorLoeffler/status/1289267567727726592?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">critical of the Black Lives Matter movement\u003c/a> in the past, and just last week published \u003ca href=\"https://kellyforsenate.com/wnba-playing-politics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a statement\u003c/a> against BLM’s “radical ideas and Marxist foundations, which include defunding the police and eroding the nuclear family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loeffler’s statement came in response to WNBA players on both the Atlanta Dream and the Phoenix Mercury wearing shirts that read “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/sports/basketball/wnba-dream-loeffler-warnock.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vote Warnock\u003c/a>,” in support of Dr. Raphael G. Warnock, the Democrat currently campaigning for Senator Loeffler’s seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/PhoenixMercury/status/1290760554408300546\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\">D\u003c/span>onning the shirts wasn’t just a supportive gesture for the broad idea of pushing society toward a more equitable world, like other actions in pro sports—it was a firm and targeted shot into the world of electoral politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the WNBA isn’t alone in that area. Earlier this summer, Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green teamed up with Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy to pen \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29355315/us-senator-murphy-draymond-green-college-sports-return-business-usual\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an op-ed fighting for the right of college athletes to be paid\u003c/a>. Green’s stance is supported by LeBron James, who in addition to being vocal about the issue of college pay has also reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/lebron-james-nonprofit-commits-pay-fines-felons-vote/story?id=71975626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">donated $100,000 to the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition\u003c/a> to help pay off the court debts of Florida residents formerly convicted of felonies so that they can be legally allowed to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s all more direct and effective than earlier, less-successful attempts at confronting social issues. Like in April of 2014, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/10848577/los-angeles-clippers-stage-silent-protest-donald-sterling-hide-team-logo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Clippers\u003c/a> protested then-owner Donald Sterling, who had made racist comments in a leaked audio clip. The team essentially threw down their warm-ups at center court, wore inside-out warm-ups (so as to conceal the Clippers’ logo) and then proceeded to play the game while wearing black armbands. They lost to the Warriors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or in July of 2016, when the WNBA initially \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2653275-wnba-fines-players-3-teams-for-wearing-black-warm-up-shirts\">fined players for wearing black warm-up shirts\u003c/a> as a way of protesting police brutality; the league later rescinded the fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, the bubble is handling this year much better than the MLB’s traveling escapade, which has already caused multiple teams to cancel games after players and staff contracted COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NHL’s bubble in Canada seems to be working, health-wise. And even there, they can’t escape the current conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://deadspin.com/matt-dumba-spoke-from-his-heart-and-the-nhl-left-him-o-1844594073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Wild player Mathew Dumba\u003c/a> spoke out against institutional racism, even within the NHL, before he took a knee during the National Anthem at a game earlier this month. It being hockey, Dumba was alone in kneeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NFL, America’s darling, is stumbling out of the blocks. As of this week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/09/us/nfl-football-future-spt-trnd/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 60 players\u003c/a> have declined to play this season (though they can still \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-take-how-key-players-opting-out-affects-salary-cap-for-2020-and-beyond-plus-more-opt-out-details/#:~:text=The%20%24150%2C000%20stipend%20is%20considered,from%20playing%20in%20the%20NFL.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">receive stipends of $150k or more\u003c/a> as advances against future pay). And, after watching the lack of properly worn face masks in this \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Eagles/status/1289285758868692992?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philadelphia Eagles promotional video\u003c/a>, I wouldn’t play either. (Two days after that video was posted, the Eagles confirmed that coach \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Eagles/status/1290091673423212544?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Doug Pederson had contracted COVID-19\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we already know that the NFL, which struggles with issues of domestic violence, players’ mental health and racist owners, doesn’t have the best track record of caring about its players, nor social justice issues. We’ll see how it handles the current social-political climate, as well as health concerns, when they officially kick off next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JimmyButler/status/1289671825526525955\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\">T\u003c/span>he growth that’s happened in basketball is good for the game, and better for the country. I’d like to keep the conversations about social justice and electoral politics going. Even if it gets a little weird at times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ll admit, that pre-fourth quarter interview that sideline reporters do with coaches is already awkward. You know the interview I’m talking about: when the coach clearly doesn’t want to talk, but the network thinks it’s a good idea to have the reporter ask them what their strategy is for the upcoming period. Couple it with questions about the importance of addressing systematic inequality, and it makes for an interaction that’s just a bit off-kilter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a lot of what’s happening in basketball \u003cem>isn’t\u003c/em> awkward. There’s something to be said about \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NBATV/status/1290078746083389440?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jaylen Brown\u003c/a>’s post-game comments from last week, in which he quoted Angela Davis and critiqued the “deeply embedded” racism in the United States—harkening back to the third verse of the National Anthem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, again, acknowledging that these players make millions of dollars to play a game, you have to take your hat off to Jimmy Butler. The Miami Heat player stepped onto the court wearing a jersey with no name at all—to symbolize that if he weren’t an NBA player, he’d be just another Black man. He later posted a photo of the jersey accompanied by a relevant quote from \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JimmyButler/status/1289671825526525955?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the late Rep. John Lewis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intellectual monologues from San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich have long been praised. So it’s almost no surprise that earlier this month, when asked about the status of one of his players, Marco Belinelli, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/royceyoung/status/1289997125242085382?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Popovich used it as a chance to explain\u003c/a> the extent of deeply ingrained racism in the country, using legislation from the former Confederacy as an example, at length. (He wrapped by finally noting, “Marco Belinelli is out tonight.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/frntofficesport/status/1287029897710501894\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a real conversation going on here. And it’s not just one-sided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miami Heat big man Myles Leonard says he supports Black Lives Matter, and even has the word “Equality” on his jersey. But Leonard, who served two tours in Afghanistan with the U.S. Marine Corps, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nba.com/article/2020/08/01/meyers-leonard-stands-anthem-explains-why\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declined to kneel for the National Anthem\u003c/a>. Jonathan Isaac, who plays for the Orlando Magic, made it clear that he won’t kneel for the National Anthem \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/magics-jonathan-isaac-explains-why-he-didnt-take-knee-or-wear-black-lives-matter-shirt-friday/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for religious reasons\u003c/a>. (In a bit of unfortunate irony, last week Isaac tore an ACL.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for my personal hesitations, seeing the words “Black Lives Matter” plastered on the hardwood \u003ca href=\"https://junipersports.com/wnba-kicks-off-with-support-for-black-lives-matter-movement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">next to AT&T and Deloitte\u003c/a> logos still feels slightly \u003cem>off\u003c/em>. Like, either the WNBA and NBA are commandeering the message, or using it as a password to be socially accepted. Or maybe it’s just further evidence that public statements putting one on the “right side of history” are good for business. Just ask Nike—\u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nike-stock-price-reaches-all-time-high-despite-colin-kaepernick-ad-boycott/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their stock reached an all-time high\u003c/a> after their Kaepernick ad in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, again, while I’m a fan of pro hoops and I appreciate superstars using their platform, I do question if it’s \u003cem>just business\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Thus far, from what I’ve seen, the WNBA and NBA are maintaining health and safety, as well as keeping a focus on social justice—in fact, they’re doing it better than any of the “Big Four” sports leagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve got strict health guidelines and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_NBA_Bubble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now-famous bubbles\u003c/a> to contain the basketball players for the season. The room for social commentary, while limiting (after all, both leagues are businesses), seems to be more flexible than other leagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s entertaining competition. The actual games, aesthetically, are eye-catching. Even with a \u003ca href=\"https://kslsports.com/439132/whats-it-like-to-be-an-nba-virtual-fan-during-a-jazz-game-in-orlando/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">digital display of fans\u003c/a> replacing the normal crowd, it’s not too bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s also not pure escapism. The masks on the faces of everyone sitting on the sidelines is a reminder that we’re living in a pandemic where over 700,000 people around the world (and \u003cem>over one-hundred and sixty thousand people\u003c/em> in the United States) have died from the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, man, after a long day of work, reading and writing about bad news on top of bad news, confined to my house with no one to talk to, there’s nothing like yelling at my screen while Oakland-raised NBA superstar Damian Lillard goes for 51 points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13884661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Lillard.HowManyMore.jpg\" alt=\"Damian Lillard, in a jersey reading 'How Many More,' worn during the 2020 NBA season.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Lillard.HowManyMore.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Lillard.HowManyMore-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Lillard.HowManyMore-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damian Lillard, in a jersey reading ‘How Many More,’ worn during the 2020 NBA season. \u003ccite>(Via Damian Lillard/IG)\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\">L\u003c/span>illard, who wears the number 0, sports a jersey this season bearing the words “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CDbhxHMgJ9G/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Many More\u003c/a>” across the top. It’s a rhetorical question, posed to the general public, about the number of Black people killed by the police; obviously, the ideal answer is zero. Lillard evidently \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Dame_Lillard/status/1290109760662990850\">wanted to have “Oscar Grant”\u003c/a> on his uniform. But he, like all other NBA players, had to choose from \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07/30/nba-social-justice-jerseys-names-messages/?arc404=true\">a pre-selected list of about 30 social justice terms\u003c/a> the NBA decided to allow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means Lakers guard Alex Caruso—who, aside from the fact he’s 6’5″, is a relatively “normal looking” balding American white dude—now goes to work every day with the words “Black Lives Matter” on the back of his uniform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At press time, Caruso, along with LeBron James and Anthony Davis, have given the Lakers the best record in the Western Conference in this abbreviated NBA season, which is actually a continuation of the suspended season from earlier this year. That means that, although play resumed just about two weeks ago, the “season” will conclude at the end of this week. And then the playoffs start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the WNBA is heading into their fourth week of play; their abbreviated season began in late July and is set to run until mid-September. (Normally the season goes from late May until early October.) Their bubble is located in Bradenton, Florida, at the sports magnet school IMG Academy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the bubbles within that bubble is the attention given to Bay Area-born point guard Sabrina Ionescu. A star rookie from the University of Oregon, Ionescu was drafted number one overall last year by the New York Liberty. Ionescu and her squad opened the season against Sue Bird and the Seattle Storm, and before the National Anthem played, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wnba-storm-liberty-players-walk-off-court-national-anthem/\">both teams walked off the floor\u003c/a>.\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/t2yu9SLNz-M'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/t2yu9SLNz-M'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>This came on the heels of the league developing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wnba.com/news/wnba-announces-a-2020-season-dedicated-to-social-justice/\">Justice Movement\u003c/a> platform and the WNBA/WNBPA Social Justice Council. According to their press release, “The mission of the Social Justice Council is to be a driving force of necessary and continuing conversations about race, voting rights, LGBTQ+ advocacy, and gun control amongst other important societal issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to teams wearing warm-ups that say “Black Lives Matter” across the front and “Say Her Name” on the back, the Social Justice Council has backed this year’s WNBA’s customized jerseys, which bear \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/angel_35/status/1276273404262313984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1276273404262313984%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Fwnba-players-special-uniforms-for-women-victims-of-police-brutality-racial-violence-black-lives-matter%2F\">Breonna Taylor’s name\u003c/a> across the back. 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