The first-ever Golden State Warriors parade in San Francisco marched on Market Street on Monday, with thousands and thousands of fans gathered to celebrate the team’s fourth NBA title in the Stephen Curry era. They flooded downtown streets and BART trains – rare landmarks during the pandemic. Starting around 11:20 a.m., double-decker buses carried players through the crowds.
Green and his mother have a message
Draymond Green jumped off the parade bus on Monday, and with his arms wrapped around his mother, Mary Babers-Green, he told former Warriors player Festus Ezeli that he had one thing to say to his critics: “Shut up! Said Green. He added, “Winners win,” and asked his mother if he had anything to say. She repeated, “Shut up!” Juan Toscano-Anderson was just as excited after pouring golden liquid from a bottle into the open mouths of waiting fans. But he added a thoughtful comment, saying dreams do come true despite adversity. “I was homeless three times in my life,” he said. “I’ve lived in 12 different households… I don’t have to be here,” he told Ezeli. “Dreams come true bro, that’s inexplicable.”
The warriors enchant the crowd
Gary Peyton II seemed to spend as much time outside of the bus as he did on it, switching from pouring his water pistol to fans to spraying a golden bottle of champagne. Kevan Looney joined the action, although unlike Peyton II, he kept his shirt, towering over the fans as he posed and smiled for the selfie. The only teammates who had more fun were Draymond Green and Juan Toscano-Anderson, who happily jumped on the bus that bore their name as Tuscany-Anderson waved a Mexican flag back and forth.
Gary Peyton 2 goes out without a shirt and goes out in the crowd #WarriorsParade @sfchronicle pic.twitter.com/ijT4P0YKFO
– Matthias Gaffney (@mgafni) June 20, 2022
In the crowd for GP2
Gary Peyton II, drinking from the championship parade, gave the fans chanting his name a champagne shower. He then excited the crowd by jumping off the bus for a brief moment to be among them.
Gary Peyton II seemed to spend as much time outside of the bus as he did on it, switching from pouring his water pistol to fans to spraying a golden bottle of champagne. Video: Chase DiFeliciantonio
The parade is rolling down Market Street
Double-decker buses full of Warriors players and their families, and liveries in blue and gold, rolled down Market Street as fans roared and confetti cannons fired over them. The buses were crowned with Larry O’Brien’s gold trophies, one of which Draymond Green held over his head, gleaming happily as the buses passed through a confetti carpet on the street. Gary Peyton Jr. had stripped to his waist and fired a water pistol from the deck of a bus as fans cheered. It wasn’t long before he jumped off the bus and started firing enthusiastic fans over the metal gates.
It happens at 5 in the morning, but it’s worth it
Elizabeth Hansen and her friend Roger Cortes woke up at 5 am in Brentwood to reach Market Street and find a place to watch at the end of the Warriors’ Parade route. As the parade began at the other end of the market, some time later than 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 Clay Thompson’s recovery from injury, she said, “made me even more proud to be a fan of him.”
Alma Antioquia, Jocelyn Malot and Liesel Cervantes and friends hold “Boston … Learn to Cook … From Steph + Ayesha”, captions on the NBA Championship parade. Video: Matthias Gaffney
MVP in the parking category
57-year-old Lori Anderson from San Francisco deserves the MVP of the parade for finding a parking space near the parade. She drove to downtown on Sunday to find a spot in the parade’s starting 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 missed a single since,” she said. “This is the first one in San Francisco, so there was no way I could miss it!”
Warriors in parade
Buses carrying NBA champion Golden State Warriors began moving along Market Street, absorbing the shouts and shouts of thousands of fans on the street.
The pool party starts
As the distinguished young Warriors Jordan Poole was greeted on stage at the Embarcadero ahead of Monday’s victory parade, he raised a water pistol and sprayed streams of water into the sky above the heads of applauding fans. Joining the Splash Brothers, Poole leaned toward his new name: Poole Party.
POOL PARTY ALL SUMMER pic.twitter.com/iGDtSeRyO0
– Golden State Warriors (@warriors) June 20, 2022
“Little ones win,” that’s what Thompson says
Clay Thompson took some time on Monday to think about the moments away from the buckets and boards where the Warriors won everything. “It’s right there, these little victories,” he told a rally before Monday’s championship parade as teammate Stephen Curry laughed and the clown next to him. “It’s something I’ll take for the rest of my life, just the little things in life that inspire you to move on, whether you’re shooting with an old lady or a young child. Dub Nation has no boundaries and we have fans from all walks of life.
“It’s about small victories.” pic.twitter.com/XZEMxQOdYM
– Golden State Warriors (@warriors) June 20, 2022
“That’s what it’s about,” says Steph
Outstanding Warriors and MVP of the finals Stephen Curry had a great point to express his joy at winning the Warriors Championship in the NBA. Commenting on Monday’s rally, he said: “It’s about having fun, boys, giving you something to be passionate about. This gives us the opportunity and platform to do things that have not been done in history and to represent the whole Gulf region in the process. ”
Green: I’m just trying to be “contradictory”
“I’m just trying to come up with the most controversial thing I can say,” said a smiling Drayman Green to applause from fans gathered at the start of the Warriors parade on Monday. Green has promised to continue his antics on social media and said it is special to see his teammates like Andrew Wiggins win their first championship. “Thank you guys, and as always, damn everyone else, I love you,” Green said. “A truly mature Draymond,” teammate Clay Thompson said calmly, picking up the microphone.
Kerr: “We’ve been kind of stinking for the last two years.” But that was then
Television spokesman Bob Fitzgerald asked Warriors coach Steve Kerr to cover the team’s surprise victory on Monday. “The reason I was surprised was that we’ve been kind of stinking for the last two years,” Kerr told a rally before the Market Street parade. “Being able to get back from where we were is pretty amazing and it’s proof for these guys.”
The warriors enjoy the Embarcadero
“We are back from the abyss,” Warriors owner Joe Luckb said on Monday from the Embarcadero stage, backed by the Warriors champion team along with their four Larry O’Brien trophies. He called for the continuity of the team, with Stephen Curry, Clay Thompson and Draymond Green playing together for a decade or more. “We have incredible continuity,” Luckab said.
The televised rally of warriors takes place before the parade
A live televised rally on Monday, which began shortly before 11 a.m., included members, coaches, executives and employees of the Golden State Warriors on stage in front of the Fairbuilding before a small crowd before the parade. The mayor of London, Breed, gathered the crowd and sat down next to Steph Curry. TV presenter Bob Fitzgerald hosted the show.
“It’s time to celebrate Dub Nation!”
The mayor of London Breed congratulated the Golden State Warriors Championship at the beginning of their parade on Market Street. Dressed in a long-sleeved Warriors T-shirt, the mayor noted that the city has gone through several difficult years of pandemic. Then she shouted to the crowd gathered around the podium where the team members were sitting: “It’s time to celebrate Dub Nation!”
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