Warriors embrace the the cowbells and raucous Kings crowd at Golden 1
SACRAMENTO — The Warriors have heard everything from unkind taunts to ringing cowbells over the years as the visiting playoff team. No matter how bad it gets, they savor a rowdy opposing crowd. It’s motivation.
“They haven’t been to the playoffs in how long? That’s 16 years of energy that they’ve been waiting for,” Jordan Poole said.”We expected it to be loud, and it’s the playoffs, too. So all arenas are gonna raise the level a little bit of energy and excitement. This is why we play basketball. Playoffs are the most exciting part it.”
“It was definitely loud. I didn’t expect that coming from over here, I didn’t really expect it,” Jonathan Kuminga said at shootaround. “They had a great crowd and I feel like that kind of helped them, too. But that’s not really something we can’t even worry about it because we came here to play and that’s what we’re going to do today.”
The Warriors blasted E-40 music over the speakers during their shootaround on Monday morning. Altercations happen, but the Warriors can only lean into any tension that arises.
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