by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

OAKLAND–Before I covered any other team in the Bay Area I had the chance to cover the San Francisco Warriors at the Cow Palace in the late 60s before they moved to Oakland in 1971. The Cow Palace was the first place I covered basketball and the Warriors always had great fans. When I talk about the best fans I mean the fans who supported this team whether they were in first or last place.

I covered the Giants for many years in the 80s and nobody cared about the Giants and the A’s struggled through the late 70s and early 80s before they went to the World Series in 1988. The Warriors have always had support and it is about time they made it to the finals and a lot of people have passed away waiting for the Warriors to win another title.

It was the 1974-75 Rick Barry-Al Attles days when they last won a championship title. It’s a beautiful thing that this finals is going to happen starting Thursday night in Oakland and I wish nothing but the best for Golden State. The Cleveland Cavaliers are a very good team also and they have one of the best players in the world in LeBron James for Cleveland and Stephen Curry for Golden State these two are money for the network.

The networks that might have hoped that the Clippers or a larger east conference team with a larger TV market would have made it. They may not get totally shutout as Curry has been one the faces of the playoffs and of course with LeBron James. LeBron is already a megastar and for TV it’s great to have LeBron and now you have Curry.

We know that the Bay Area is a great place but in a place like Kentucky they could care less about a guy like Curry but the network audience will be tuning in and they will be out to see why the Curry is the Most Valuable Player on the other side your going to see the other superstar like LeBron. This is why TV likes it because they do have established superstars and LeBron is one player who needs no introduction.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the TV Spanish voice for the Angels, the Radio Spanish voice for the A’s, and does News and Commentary each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com