Newsom hints Warriors will face obstacles getting to SF by 2018

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Steinmetz

If you’re a Warriors fan who goes to Oracle, you’re likely someone who cares where the team will be playing in the next few years. Warriors owner Joe Lacob has made no secret he wants to move the team from Oakland to San Francisco … the question just seems to be when.

Originally, Lacob was hoping for an arena on Piers 30/32 in the City, ready for the 2017 season. After that, it was Mission Bay by 2017, which quietly turned into 2018. Recently, former SF mayor and current lieutenant governor Gavin Newsom was on The Sal and Steiny podcast and asked about the Warriors’ arena situation.

While Newsom believes the team will eventually get to San Francisco, it certainly sounds like there will be challenges to hitting the 2018 date. Here are excerpts of Newsom’s discussion with Sal Castaneda and Matt Steinmetz.

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Wrong, Rick Barry! It’s Joe Lacob who should be thanking fans

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Steinmetz

The Warriors honored their 1974-75 championship team on Monday night, and the star of that team, Rick Barry, was his usual outspoken self. Barry, the greatest of the West Coast Warriors, was in a scolding mood and he let some Warriors fans have it for their behavior three years back during the Chris Mullin jersey retirement ceremony.

For those who don’t remember, near the end of the celebration, Warriors owner Joe Lacob was vociferously booed for an extended period of time, blemishing what should have been a coronation for Mullin.

“All those fools that were booing during the Chris Mullin ceremony should be writing letters to Joe Lacob apologizing for what they did because it worked out pretty good,” said Barry, who was there that night.

With all due respect to the Hall-of-Famer, he’s dead wrong. In fact, I’d go the other way: Lacob should be thanking Warriors fans for booing him that night. The owner needed it and deserved it.

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Warriors No. 1 seed … now what?

Posted on March 14, 2015 by Steinmetz

Just got done watching the Warriors frolic with the New York Knicks.

Their record is now 5o-something and barely double-figures, I can’t keep track. Incredible, but with about a month of the season left, the Warriors are, and will end up with, the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference. Nobody is going to catch them in the West, a remarkable thought in its own right. Knowing that, how much do you think about what happens after that, the playoffs?

Crazy as it seems, the Warriors have a month to play with. OK, maybe not to play with, but to perhaps strategize about what they want to do heading into the playoffs. We know it will be intriguing to find out which team will wind up the No. 8 seed, but the Warriors can’t control that.

Or can they?

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