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The next time the Golden State Warriors play a regular season game will be in San Francisco.
After 47 years, the team said its regular season goodbye to Oracle Arena on Sunday. The venue where Stephen Curry and company will drain threes might change but the memories of their Oakland home won’t soon be forgotten by fans. On a warm Sunday, fans were able to enjoy a 131-104 win over the Los Angeles Clippers and remember some of their fondest memories of the arena.
Some, like Bobby Roth, remember the “We Believe” teams and Baron Davis’ dunk over Andrei Kirilenko in the 2007 playoff versus the Dallas Mavericks. But what he will most remember is how loud Oracle got.
“Thats my biggest memory, not being able to hear your own thoughts in the arena,” Roth said.
The team paid homage to the “We Believe” team with the jerseys they wore on Sunday.
Other fans remembered how a trip to Oracle triggered their fandom. Season ticket holder Joe Geneza remembers Warriors’ Šarūnas Marčiulionis greeting him after a game 28 years ago.
“My dad took me to my first Warriors game and he stopped through the tunnel we were exiting and he shook my hand,” Geneza said. “That’s where I fell in love with the Warriors right there.”
Not all fans were regulars. Some took their first trip to Oracle just before the move. Ryan Brown made sure to make his son Amarion’s first game the last regular season game at Oracle.
“I promised him we would get out here to see a game and I couldn’t find it any more fitting than to come to the last game at Oracle,” Brown said.
The 131-104 Warriors win over the Clippers Sunday secured the No. 1 seed for the dubs and will give fans at least a few more opportunities to see their team in Oakland.
