polychrome wrote:
Prices will be even higher when the new arena in San Francisco opens. I'm glad the Warriors are moving back to SF since that's where they were before moving to Oakland and after moving from Philadelphia. Warriors have a very devoted fan base even during the many losing seasons, but along with success comes bandwagoners, many who spends more time on their phones than watching and cheering for the team. Same as at San Francisco Giants games these days since their transition to their new stadium and during their recent successful years. It is cool that both the Warriors new arena and the Giants stadium are on the waterfront and both privately funded.

polychrome wrote:
Traffic will be a nightmare but getting to Chase Arena will be easier than going to a Giants game at AT&T Park because of a much smaller crowd. The Caltrain station is close to both facilities so fans on the peninsula will have a shorter distance to go now. SF locals as well. It would be great if BART went closer to the new arena but public transportation will improve with time. A muni stop at the arena will open in a year or two and there's supposed to be around 950 parking spaces once the arena opens. Still not like the parking at the Oakland Arena. You could also catch a ferry from the East Bay and Marin and there's a new ferry dock is planned. The devoted fans will still support the Warriors at the new arena when they suck, it's the bandwagons who will drop off, as it does with all teams. Speaking of the Lakers, I am glad that public transportation to the Staple Center has improved a lot and that needs to happen to/from Dodger Stadium.

polychrome wrote:
I know, your Lakers will win it all. I'm just enjoying the ride of highly entertaining and unselfish Warriors basketball as long as it last. I supported them through the bad years and there were many.

DP wrote:
So I still haven't gotten you to switch to hockey yet, viz? :popcorn:

vision63 wrote:
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Less space for the true fan. I've seen it happen before. It was nineteen ought seven. The Sacramento Digereedoo's raised their prices just after they won the Melancholy Cup in the old Flopball league. The Hoi Palloi displaced the proletariat foundry workers. The workers had to watch the matches from cracks in the stadium walls. Sadly, when the Digereedoos fell out of contention, the Hoi Palloi no longer found the sad fieldmen's struggle to hurl the flops around the grid-plain to try to score amusing so they abandoned the sport altogether. The greedy ownership, addicted to the elevated rates were forced to fold the Flopball league. The workers were crushed. The rest is history.

Be careful Warriors.