The Warriors Chased Big Money to San Francisco and Left Their Soul in Oakland

What it feels like to have your team, your city’s heart, torn out and dragged across the Bay

Lexi Pandell
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10 min readOct 24, 2019

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Illustration: Jenna Andersen

TThis summer, I drove by the Oracle Arena on Interstate 880 and found myself faced with ghosts. As the arena grew larger on the horizon, so too did the massive headshots of various…

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Lexi Pandell
GEN
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