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Dinner and a Warriors Game at Chase Center

·San Francisco, California·#bay area#san-francisco#chase-center#golden-state-warriors#basketball
A bearded man sits at a restaurant table with a drink and food, with a bar and other patrons in the background.

Drove down to San Francisco for dinner and a Warriors game. Dinner first, at a place with brass everywhere — a little table lamp shaped like a mushroom, a hazy beer, a salad I mostly finished before we had to head over to Mission Bay.

Chase Center holds 18,064 for basketball and it felt like all of them showed up for the Bucks. Our seats were close enough to read jerseys: Middleton, Holiday, the whole Milwaukee front line working the paint while Klay ran off screens at the other end. Kerr standing on the sideline with his arms crossed for most of it.

By the end everyone around us was on their feet waving the giveaway towels, and I was up there with them, arms over my head. Walking out at 3rd and 16th, the big screen above the entrance was already reset to the season graphic, the crowd spreading out into the dark toward the parking garages.

A basketball game in progress, showing players on the court and a vast audience in the multi-level stands.A live basketball game in an arena, with players on the court and many fans in the seats.Two smiling people take a selfie at a crowded basketball arena, with many spectators and the court visible in the background.Two smiling people take a selfie in a crowded stadium with a basketball court and many spectators in the background.A smiling person with raised arms takes a selfie in a crowded stadium with digital billboards in the background.A crowd of people stands outside the Chase Center at night, which displays '2022-23 Season' on a large screen.

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