SAN FRANCISCO — An NBA contest happened at Chase Center Thursday night.
I swear.
Two of the best players on the planet — the Denver Nuggets’ Nikola Jokić and the Golden State Warriors’ Steph Curry — went toe-to-toe for the first time in this three-day-old 2025-26 regular season. The Warriors prevailed 137-131 in overtime, with the sellout home crowd of 18,064 getting as entertaining a game as you’ll find this time of year.
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Despite being there to see it all in person, with a press row seat that offers a bird’s eye view of the action and with the original intention of covering this early Western Conference showdown, it was mostly a basketball blur because of the bombshell news of the day that consumed the league at large.
Until the fantastic finish, anyway (more on that later).
Everywhere you went, from each team’s morning shootaround session to the evening event that ended with
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