Monday was a larger than normal August NBA day for the Warriors. The business operations side of the franchise moved from Oakland to San Francisco. This work week was the first at Chase Center for many of their non-basketball employees.
To start it, they invited the local press for a tour of the arena, which is just a few finishing touches away from completion. Some of us from The Athletic attended. Here are some quick notes from the two-hour trip around the team’s new palace.
• It’s a sleek, high-tech building dropped on a beautiful plot of land without a ton of defining elements to it. I left most impressed by the massive scoreboard.
The dimensions given for the scoreboard: 82 feet, 9 inches by 52 feet, 8 inches, center-hung all the way around for 9,699 square feet, the largest video board in the league. It towers over the court and nearly stretches as long as it.
It kind of reminds me of a mini version of AT&T Stadium in Dallas.
