Your earliest memory as a Warrior fan was...

But I don’t think it matters how long you’ve been a fan, but how you show it and how loyal you are. But that’s beside the point.

One of my earliest memories came from a game vs. Orlando when we wore our City jerseys. Calbert Cheaney threw a lob to J-Rich who slammed it down after a 180 reverse clutch. It was sick. I can’t find a video of it though. :/

I remember calling dampier daiper!!!! That and them losing everytime they played but my dad still supporting them whole heartedly!!!! WE BELIEVE!!!

killer-crossover! You have no idea how many times I tried to emulate that move on the playground.

was the question I asked my older brother, followed by “What country has the ABA and why’s Rick Barry playing there?”

yup, seriously

I started watching the Warriors when I was in the 7th grade, and then became more of a diehard fan when I was in the 8th grade.

I’ll just say that my earliest memory was seeing Earl Boykins, and then being more enthusiastic about the NBA when I saw Speedy Claxton. The very first Warriors play I actually payed attention to was when Claxton broke someone’s ankles really bad as a result of a quick crossover. That move got me hooked; I wasn’t much of an NBA fan before I saw that, I was more of an And1 fan and only liked watching tricks and ballhandling.

When I saw Claxton’s crossover, it made me realize that the NBA is equally as entertaining as And1. I slowly started watching the NBA more, and eventually got disgusted in And1 because I finally appreciated real basketball.

I fell in love with the Warriors when I realized they sucked. I love underdogs.

Well first of all, my interest for the game kindled when I watched Space Jam for the first time on a bootlegged VHS (I was about 4). My dad was always watching the Dubs play on our small living room TV and seeing how that was the same sport as the movie (minus the monsters) I became interested in watching. This was back when we still had Mookie Blaylock. And I still vividly remember the “It’s a Great Timeout” campaign. During this time, the team played a few games in HP Pavilion in San Jose, and my dad bought 4 tix for the family. I was 5 around this time, and I remember being so excited since it would be my first time at a game. And then I got a 100 degree fever the morning of the game. Sigh…

with my dad and one of his coworkers. Hakeem was still playing, but I don’t remember the year. I also remember going to the Rookie Game when we hosted All Star weekend. Up until around that time I was probably more of a Cavs fan because that was my dad’s team (if he ever had one) and I was a big fan of Brevin Knight (out of Stanford) and Shaun Kemp.

I think both those memories were probably within a year of each other, but I didn’t really become a big Warriors fan until 2002 when JR got here.

I thiiiinnnkkk.

I just scoured the intranet looking for a picture of it and struck out, but when I was in 6th grade I had a badass Mead 3-ring folder of Tim Hardaway dunking on (someone?). Vintage epic.

as a little kid I only really payed attention to the Kings and then all the big playoff teams so to be honest I kind of knew about Webber with the Warriors and Mullin and Hardaway but just kind of a passing knowledge of their existence. I didn’t really pay attention though until Sprewell was drafted. I thought he was the most talented player in the league, with crazy two fisted angry slam dunks. My other earliest memory was just playing NBA Jam with my step brother and using Hardaway and Mullin to only shoot 3 pointers and killing everyone we knew (unless they played with the Rockets because apparantly the Dream has the ability to block every single 3 pointer even if it should be called a goal tending violation)

an inbound bounce pass to Mullin in the corner to hit the game winning three. That and Tim Hardaway’s killer crossover and kicking his legs when he hit his jump-shots. I was in second grade trying to shoot like that, lol. Let’s just say it looked like i was having a seizure mid-jump.

Nate Thurman, Al Attles, Guy Rogers, Wayne Hightower, Tom Meschery, Wilt Chamberlain. Six guys scoring in double figures led by Wilt with a casual 37 per game. They won the West but lost to the (Red Auerbach coached) Celtics in the finals. Celtics had Bill Russell, Sam Jones, KCJones, John Havlicek, Tom (Satch) Sanders, Tommy Heinson, Larry Siegfried and Frank Ramsey. TV was black and white back then.

At 37 yrs old my first memory was of a warriors-clips game from the mid-eighties. On the clips were tom chambers and terry cummings. A fan in the seats next to us yelled out “chambers you’re a bum!” Besides that game I remember my dad always bringing my brother and I posters and pennants from the games he attended. Good memories have made me the fan I am today. My 4 yr old daughter is a fan and I’m always bringing her and my 2 yr old son souvenirs from the games. I guss history has a way of repeating itself huh? Go Warriors!

I used to have a pin which was given to me at that clips game that read ‘im a Warriors Worrier’. That could have been worn for many seasons since.

But the year Webber was drafted, my dad gave my mom and I seats behind the basket on the Warriors’ bench side. It was a game against the Blazers (we won) toward the end of the season. Webber and Sprewell were sitting on the bench and my mom decided to take a picture. Webber looked at her and stuck his tongue out and she got the shot; she was so excited she jumped out of her seat and pointed at him (like, you’re the man!). I think Sprewell was looking away at the game, smiling at what Webber did. I still have the picture somewhere.

and have been a Warrior fan for 8 years or so. My earliest memory would probably playing my cousin in NBA Live 2003 with the Warriors. I remember I didn’t know much about basketball at all and only picking GSW because I thought that “Golden State” was the coolest name ever for a basketball team. and I also loved our jerseys. I remember I couldn’t beat my cousin for nothing(He always used the Lakers) and when I picked the Warriors I was able to beat him finally. Right then in there the Warriors became my favorite team. I loved dunking with Jason Richardson and scoring with Arenas and Jamison. As I grew older and learned more and more about GSW I saw that we sucked and I loved underdogs so I started loving this team even more. Living in NY I feel as if the Warriors are my team because nobody knows too much about them. Although I can’t wait until we start winning it kind of feels cool to be in my own GS fan club haha.

I was around 10, and I dont remember any games specifically, but I remember those old highlight and compilation videos. Besides the Jordan/Dominique/Dee Brown dunks, Tim’s crossovers were my favorite part of those specials. I felt pride knowing that Timmy owned the best crossover in all of the NBA, and it was damn fun to watch too!.. Until Allen Iverson came along.
After that, I got cought up in the Don Nelson/Chris Weber draft pick hype before it went sour, and that’s when I first started buying Dubs gear.
After that, well… Sprewell and Carlesimo. LOL
Wish I had more memories of Mitch Richmond with us, but I mostly remember him with the (other) Cali Kings.

I hella remember when we had both Joe Smith and Donyell Marshall on the squad. Donyell was pretty much our so-called go-to-guy. They were together for only a few seasons. During those few seasons, I hella loved it when they would raise the roof to pump up the crowd. The squad back then was pretty horrific, but this was just one of the few moments that stood out for me then.

I recall seeing Chamberlain doing a pr gig in downtown Oaktown in 1962 ! 100 point game I wish I could say I was there ! Sad to see him leave town but then came Nate the Great who also left town just the year before they won the championship.

Yup, gotta be 1980, I was still into Legos and blocks, but bball was just starting to peak my interest. My most vivid memories were Purvis Short’s rainbow jumpers, Bernard King’s slithering drives to the bucket, and World B Free’s NAME. haha
Dubs fan from way back in the day!!!

I feel old in comparison to some of the first memories on here. Early 90’s, my dad being a basketball fan, and having started playing when I was about 6, always watching the early TMC days and still a die hard fan today. My brother was a Hardaway fan, and I was a Mullin fan, we both got their jerseys on Christmas (probly around 93). One day we went to the flea market where Hardaway was signing autographs and we walk up on him, NO LINE surprisingly in some deep corner sitting at a table eating a hot dog, he signs my brothers bball card, barely looks up with food in his mouth and I swear gets ketchup on it lol.

Way back when, I used to sit and watch the games with my dad, some of the most memorable in the Hardaway, Marciulionis, Mullin, Owens and LISTER days lol. Manute Bol, Gatling, Big Vic, Tyrone Hill, Jeff Grayer, Tom Tolbert, Jud Buechler…I remember my dad always yelling to the tv at Barnett and Steve Albert (Marv’s lamer younger brother), coach then was probably Popovich or Nellie…to "GET LISTER OUTTA THERE!" Yeah, Lister sucked. Shawn Kemp proved that (to him and Gatling) in one of their last playoff runs (I remember that game vividly…that’s when I HATED and loved Kemp at the same time)

I struggled thru the 90’s playoff days to the Cohan Era and still a diehard fan now living in LA, where I’m proud to be the only non-fairweather fan. Even my bro jumped on the Faker bandwagon (at least not the ClipShow). I could only get into other PLAYERS not teams, like Shawn Kemp, Jordan (still have those jerseys tucked away somewhere), Ray Allen and Vince Carter. That was back when PLAYING CARDS were huge, so every week we’d go to the card shop with our crisp new Beckett’s and load up on packs and see if our Jordans, Mullins and Hardaways were worth anything. They weren’t then, but I wish I could get a hold of a Beckett today. I have FULL SETS of Upper Decks, about 100 Mullins, Pippens, Duncan Rookie cards, Jordans in plastic cases, I was looking thru them all when I went home this past weekend, I’m probably a thousandaire and don’t even know it.

Side note…anybody remember those great basketball videos, you can probably find on youtube now, like NBA Superstars (with Magic, Jordan, Bird, Dr J, Hakeem, Isaiah…) all set to the likes of Janet Jackson? Fantastic Finishes! Woaahhh JAM!

And last but not least, but this is the weirdest part. I’m not a smoker (420) but I have at times. I swear this one time I got super blazed with my best friend and was sitting on the couch in a daze…and all I could hear over and over again was the old announcer from the Oakland Coliseum Arena days saying "CHRIS….Mullin! Tiiimmmmm HARDAWAY!!" Happens all the time. I can’t watch these videos without trippin out…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwrbjnfXCfM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAdMW4Hi8yI

My earliest memory is standing next to the tunnel at a game versus the Celtics. My CYO team was about to play a game on the court during half time. Bill Walton walked by and my mind was blown at how big he was.
I think that is the game I sat next to Ricky Henderson too, I will have to go back and see if he played for the As in that 84-87 time frame.
I have no memory of the game at all, but I remember every detail of our CYO game because I felt the pressue of 20,000 people watching me play. When I missed a free throw I wanted to puke from embarassment.

back in the early 80’s, right when J.B.Carroll got here. I was like ten years old. I went with a family friend and sat in the upper part of the arena (before renovations). Man, there was so much marijuana smoke up there, i’m sure i got a contact high.

How times have changed.

As soon as NBA games started to be broadcasted to Brasil, a colleague of mine in high school came to me and said “hey did you see last night’s game? Portland Rail Blazer versus something-Warriors, there was a giant and skinny ultra-black player named BOL who could barely stand still in court, another one very very very fast named Hardway, another militar white one with a cool left hand shot bla bla bla”

this was 1989 I think, I was 13, loved playing basketball and fell in love with that team as soon as I watched the first game :-)

The year AFTER they won their lone Golden State championship. A friend of the family with season tickets took me to see the Warriors play the New Orleans Jazz, complete with Pete Maravich and Gail Goodrich. I didn’t have much of a clue as to what was going on, but my host family had a teenaged son who was into it, and I could see him getting all worked up because the Jazz were winning, so being the smart ass seven year old I was, I started teasing him. He was a good sport about it, though, and I must have been intrigued by how someone could have such an emotional investment in a game, because when they dropped me off later that night and my parents asked me how the game was, I spewed out the same lines I had heard he and his dad braying on the way home: “Smith played terrible! Barry couldn’t make a layup!”

By later that spring, watching the W’s lose to Phoenix in Game 7 of the conference finals on TV (and being able to catch a game on TV was quite a treat back then), I had become just as worked up about the team, and it’s been 34 years of wondering why in the hell I root for them ever since.

hitting a game winning corner 3 vs Hawks in Atlanta from an inbounds bounce pass from Avery Johnson in the ‘93-’94 season. I still have that game on video tape.

Awesomess