The first parade of the Golden State Warriors Championship in San Francisco took place on Market Street on Monday, with thousands and thousands of fans gathered to celebrate the team’s fourth NBA title in the era of Stephen Curry. They flooded downtown streets and BART trains. – rare places during the pandemic. From 11:20 a.m., double-decker buses carried players through the crowd.
The warriors captivate the crowd
Gary Payton II seemed to spend as much time outside the bus as he did on the inside, going from turning off fans with his water pistol to sprouting from a golden bottle of champagne. Kevon Looney took part in the action, although, unlike Payton II, he kept his shirt on, dominating the fans as he posed and smiled to take selfies. The only teammates who had the most fun seemed to be Draymond Green and Juan Toscano-Anderson, who happily jumped on the bus that bore his name while Toscano-Anderson waved a Mexican flag back and forth.
Gary Payton 2 goes shirtless and goes to the #WarriorsParade crowd @sfchronicle pic.twitter.com/ijT4P0YKFO
– Matthias Gafni (@mgafni) June 20, 2022
Among the crowd for GP2
Gary Payton II, absorbing the championship parade, gave the fans singing his name a splash of champagne. He then thrilled the crowd by jumping off the bus for a brief moment to be among them.
Alma Antioquia, Jocelyn Malott and Lizelle Cervantes and their friends hold “Boston … Learn to Cook … From Steph + Ayesha”, signs at the NBA Championship Parade. Video: Matthias Gafni
The parade rolls down Mercat Street
Double-decker buses full of Warriors players and their families, and decorated in blue and gold, rolled down Market Street as fans roared and confetti cannons fired overhead. The buses were crowned with the team’s golden Larry O’Brien trophies, one of which Draymond Green held above, trembling happily as the buses plowed a carpet of confetti on the street. Gary Payton Jr. he had stripped to his waist and was firing a water pistol from the roof of a bus while the fans howled with joy. He soon jumped off the bus and started yelling at the enchanted fans above the parade’s metal doors.
At 5 in the morning but it’s worth it
Elizabeth Hansen and her boyfriend Roger Cortes woke up at 5 a.m. in Brentwood to reach Market Street and take a lookout at the end of the Warriors Parade route. As the parade began at the other end of the market, some time after the promised start at 11:20 a.m., Hansen said she was “hot, hungry, tired.” But she was proud of the team she had grown up watching all her life, and Klay Thompson’s recovery from an injury, she said, “made me even more proud to be her fan.”
MVP in the parking category
Laurie Anderson, 57, of San Francisco, deserves MVP of the parade to find a parking spot near the parade. On Sunday he drove downtown to look for a spot in the initial parade area and found a $ 20 garage near Market and Main. “I came to my first parade in 1981, when the 49ers beat Cincinnati in the Super Bowl and I’ve never lost a single one since,” he said. “This is the first one in San Francisco, so there was no way I could miss that!”
Warriors in parade
Buses carrying the NBA champion Golden State Warriors have begun to move through Market Street, absorbing the screams and shouts of thousands of street fans.
The pool party begins
When the outstanding young warrior, Jordan Poole, was greeted on stage at the Pier before Monday’s victory parade, he raised a water pistol and sprayed streams of water into the sky above the wharves. heads of fans. Joining the Splash Brothers, Poole has relied on his new nickname: Poole Party.
POOLE PARTIES ALL SUMMER pic.twitter.com/iGDtSeRyO0
– Golden State Warriors (@warriors) June 20, 2022
“The little one wins”: that’s what it’s all about, Thompson says
Klay Thompson spent a moment on Monday reflecting on the moments away from the buckets and tables where the Warriors won it all. “That’s what it’s all about right here, these little victories,” he told the rally ahead of Monday’s championship parade as teammate Stephen Curry laughed and played clowns by his side. “This is something I’m going to take for the rest of my life, just the little things in life that inspire you to move on, whether it’s taking a picture with an older woman or a young child. Dub Nation doesn’t have limits and we have fans from all walks of life. “
“It’s about the small victories.” pic.twitter.com/XZEMxQOdYM
– Golden State Warriors (@warriors) June 20, 2022
“That’s what it’s all about,” Steph says
Stephen Curry, the highlight of the Warriors and the MVP of the finals, had an overall point of view to do so with all the jubilation for the Warriors ’victory in the NBA championship. Commenting on Monday’s parade, he said: “That’s what it’s all about: entertaining yourself, giving you something to be passionate about. have been made in history and represent the whole bay area in the process. “
Green: just trying to be “controversial”
“I’m just trying to think of the most controversial thing I can say,” a smiling Draymond Green said amid applause from fans gathered at the start of Monday’s Warriors parade route. Green promised to continue his travels on social media and said it was special to see his teammates as Andrew Wiggins win his first championship. “Thank you guys, and as always, everyone else, I love you.” said Green. “Draymond is really mature,” teammate Klay Thompson later said, picking up the microphone.
Kerr: “We’ve been stinking for the last two years.” But that was then
Television announcer Bob Fitzgerald asked Warriors coach Steve Kerr to reflect on the team’s surprise victory on Monday. “The reason it was a surprise is that we’ve been doing a bit of stinking for the last two years,” Kerr said at the rally before the Market Street parade. “Being able to recover from where we were is pretty amazing and a testament to these guys.”
The warriors delight from the Pier
“We’re back from the abyss,” Warriors owner Joe Lacob said Monday from a stage at the Pier with the support of the championship Warriors team along with their four Larry O ‘trophies. Brien. He called for team continuity, with Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green playing together for a decade or more. “We have incredible continuity,” Lacob said.
The concentration of televised warriors marched before the parade
A live televised demonstration Monday that began shortly before 11 a.m. features Golden State Warriors team members, coaches, executives and staff on a stage in front of the ferry building in front of a small crowd before of the parade. Mayor London Breed gathered the crowd and sat down next to Steph Curry. TV presenter Bob Fitzgerald directed the show as a presenter.
“It’s time to celebrate Dub Nation!”
Mayor London Breed greeted the Golden State Warriors of the championship at the start of their Market Street Parade. Dressed in a Warriors long-sleeved T-shirt, the mayor noted that the city has gone through a couple of difficult pandemic years. He then shouted to the crowd gathered around the kiosk where the team members were sitting: “It’s time to celebrate Dub Nation!”
The Clipper app processes some purchases amid a sharp slowdown in demand
Clipper said Monday that people struggling to add a card or value to their mobile app should keep trying, as some attempts are underway. The agency said its application was in high demand due to people taking public transport to the Warriors parade on Monday. Many were struggling to add value or a card to their mobile app, Clipper and BART said Monday morning. BART said a long line had been cleared at its Dublin station for Clipper cards.
BART as before, for a day
Here’s something we haven’t seen in a couple of years, and most of us haven’t gotten lost, the BART passengers folded like sardines. While passenger traffic is still well below pre-pandemic levels these days at BART, trains were packed Monday morning for the Golden State Warriors parade in downtown San Francisco, the traffic agency tweeted. . Unlike their traveling counterparts, these train passengers seem ecstatic.
We’re seeing trains full of Warriors fans taking BART to San Francisco. One of the many trains at this time. Please be polite and patient with others and BART staff, #DubNation pic.twitter.com/5L4Wp7m5If
– BART (@SFBART) June 20, 2022
The business of the center has returned, at least for some, at least during the day
If the line of GNG liquor on Fifth Street was an indication, Monday would be a good day for many besieged businesses in downtown San Francisco. The line was a dozen deep into the liquor store a block from the route of the Warriors Celebration Parade shortly before 10 a.m. Downtown businesses have struggled to recover from the pandemic’s closures and restrictions, and a slowdown in office has slowed. process of what was expected.
He’s about to go crazy!
In the stream of fans leaving the BART and Muni trains at the Powell …