This game 5 on the road for Boston is the type of game they have been winning the entire playoffs. I think if they can pull this out they will eventually take this thing down. If not, I don't see them beating GSW 2 straight to win it. They just aren't consistent enough to get that done against a good team.
So I guess I'm saying whoever wins game 5 will be your 2022 NBA Champs.
So I guess I'm saying whoever wins game 5 will be your 2022 NBA Champs.
Long time GS fan, saw games at the Cow Palace as a kid.
This statement is true as a fan..both championships 17/18 were nothing short of un-amazing.
.This team might be my favorite of the past runs and I loved the 2015 team.
Looking forward to tonight.
"The callousness of the current era eventually turned that expression of humility into a meme, one that would soon be turned against him: Between Durant and Curry in Golden State, who was the real M.V.P.?
That question — from social media trolls, television personalities and needling sports fans — was a dig at Durant, but its sharp edge wounded Curry, too. Golden State had become too good. Sure enough, Durant was a force in back-to-back championships, the latter a four-game sweep of the Cavaliers. There was a sense of joyless inevitability about Golden State: Anything short of a championship was a failure".
Go GS
This statement is true as a fan..both championships 17/18 were nothing short of un-amazing.
.This team might be my favorite of the past runs and I loved the 2015 team.
Looking forward to tonight.
"The callousness of the current era eventually turned that expression of humility into a meme, one that would soon be turned against him: Between Durant and Curry in Golden State, who was the real M.V.P.?
That question — from social media trolls, television personalities and needling sports fans — was a dig at Durant, but its sharp edge wounded Curry, too. Golden State had become too good. Sure enough, Durant was a force in back-to-back championships, the latter a four-game sweep of the Cavaliers. There was a sense of joyless inevitability about Golden State: Anything short of a championship was a failure".
Go GS
When the Warriors Lost Home-Court Advantage to the Ice Follies
By John Branch
- June 5, 2015
Back then, though, the Warriors did not have home-court advantage in the championship series against the Washington Bullets. They did not even have a home court, foiled by a scheduling conflict with the Ice Follies, a touring skating show, that forced the games to be moved to a different Bay Area arena.
“That’s why it’s the biggest upset in the N.B.A. finals,” Rick Barry, the star of that Warriors team, said in a phone interview. “Even in our own arena, they were scheduling other things in the spring. They didn’t even think we would be there.”
It remains one of the last examples of a professional sport not getting its way in the battleground of popular culture.
In 1975, the Ice Follies had its annual 10-day run in Oakland, scheduled in May, featuring the Olympic skater Janet Lynn, Big Bird and “a contingent of Muppet characters from Sesame Street,” an advertisement proclaimed in local newspapers. Tickets were $4.50 to $6.50, a dollar less for children.
“The Ice Follies have appeared here every year since 1967,” Bill Cunningham, the Oakland Coliseum complex general manager, told the Oakland Tribune columnist Ed Levitt when the conflict loomed. “That’s 60,000 to 70,000 people coming to the Oakland Arena for one week. We can’t suddenly decide to bump these people.”
So instead, the N.B.A., the Warriors and their fans were bumped.
“We had hoped that the N.B.A. would fit the dates when the arena is available,” Cunningham explained in words that still apply, “but TV calls the shots.”
In those days, the N.B.A.’s now-familiar 2-2-1-1-1, best-of-seven format for alternating home games was not rigid. In the 1975 Western Conference finals against Chicago, Golden State played Games 1, 4, 5 and 7 at home, in Oakland. In the Eastern finals, the Bullets and the Boston Celtics alternated home games, traveling between each one.
For the championship series, the Bullets, with home-court advantage because of their better regular-season record, were given a choice: play Game 1 on the road in Oakland before returning home, or start the series at home but play Games 2 and 3 on the road at the Cow Palace in Daly City, at the southern edge of San Francisco. It was where the Warriors, as the San Francisco Warriors, had spent most of the 1960s.
The heavily favored Bullets chose to start at home, then lost Game 1.
It is impossible to imagine the apocalyptic response these days if something as sacred as an N.B.A. finals had to be moved from a team’s home arena to accommodate something like an ice show. But in 1975, it was barely news. A few Bay Area newspapers wrote about it, but the location change was little more than a sentence or two in most articles about the series.
The Warriors did not complain much. At the Cow Palace, Barry scored 36 points in Game 2 and 38 in Game 3, both Golden State victories.
“The place was a rat hole, but I liked the baskets at the Cow Palace,” Barry said. “They were like sewer pipes. Rims then didn’t have springs, but the rims there were very forgiving.”
The Warriors finished the four-game sweep back in Landover, Md., where Games 5 and 7 were scheduled, too. Had the series reached a Game 6, it would have played been in Oakland, after the Ice Follies had moved on.
Instead, after the Warriors won Game 4, the team plane returned to California. According to newspaper accounts, the airport in San Francisco was so overrun by fans that the plane was diverted — fittingly, to Oakland.
By fluke and Follies, then, Thursday’s game was the first N.B.A. finals game at the Oakland arena (named Oracle Arena a few years ago) in its nearly 50-year history.
The Cow Palace, opened in 1941 with livestock shows primarily in mind, hosted many of the area’s biggest events for decades. It hosted the 1960 Final Four and the 1967 N.B.A. All-Star Game. In 1964, it hosted a Beatles concert and, as it did eight years earlier, the Republican National Convention.
It is still there, hosting an annual rodeo, circuses and the occasional ice show. (Scheduled at the Cow Palace this month: Crossroads of the West Gun Show and High Times Cannabis Cup, billed as the world’s leading marijuana trade show.)
The Warriors moved from Philadelphia to take up residence at the Cow Palace in 1962. They played there for most of the decade, except for two seasons at San Francisco Civic Auditorium. When the Warriors reached the finals (and lost) in 1964 and 1967, they played their games at the Cow Palace.
Across the bay in Oakland, the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena opened in 1966. It attracted an N.H.L. expansion team, the Oakland Seals. A year later, its tenants included an inaugural American Basketball Association franchise, the Oakland Oaks.
The Warriors filled in a few open dates on the calendar at the gleaming arena, even playing 18 home games there during the 1967-68 season. By then, the Warriors had already bounced between arenas in the postseason, where schedules are impossible to predict, and teams of the era had to work around the likes of circuses and ice shows.
The Warriors opened the 1967 playoffs in Oakland against the Los Angeles Lakers, but they played the rest of their home games at home, across the bay, on the way to losing the championship series to the Philadelphia 76ers.
In a 1968 playoff series with the St. Louis Hawks, Game 3 was in San Francisco (according to box scores, not delineating between Daly City and San Francisco), while Game 4 was in Oakland. The Warriors clinched the series by winning Game 6 in San Francisco.
The Warriors settled in Oakland in 1971 and rechristened themselves the Golden State Warriors. They discontinued the habit of bouncing between arenas for home games, at least until they made an unpredictably deep run in the 1975 playoffs.
“We’re sorry for the fans if they should have to go another place to see the Warriors play,” Cunningham, the arena general manager, said that May. “We don’t like losing business. But when you have a multipurpose arena, you’ve got to please the greatest number of people. After all these years, I can’t tell the Ice Follies I don’t want them here.”
Within a few years, the Ice Follies were extinct. The Warriors, though, are still in the old arena, welcomed home for the N.B.A. finals, 40 years removed from their removal.
Susan C. Beachy contributed research.
Full bore asshole basketball. Live ball turnovers, stupid shots, and complaing to the refs like they're the Warriors
Missed free throws, what a fucking joke
And what's with Brown and the shot clock at the end of quarters? Like he doesn"t have a brain
The Warriors were much tougher mentally tonight. That has to change
Missed free throws, what a fucking joke
And what's with Brown and the shot clock at the end of quarters? Like he doesn"t have a brain
The Warriors were much tougher mentally tonight. That has to change
NBA Fan Claims He Received Lifetime Ban from Chase Center for Impersonating Warriors' Klay Thompson
A viral prankster known for his Klay Thompson impersonation claims he was banned after he snuck onto the court before the start of Game 5 of the NBA Finals
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