Headline Sports Podcast with London Marq: Bringing back Warriors will be a small part of what Mayor Lee did for S.F.; Big media push for A’s Coliseum stadium but team wants downtown park

FILE – In this May 22, 2012 file photo from left, Golden State Warriors owner and CEO Joe Lacob, NBA Commissioner David Stern, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Warriors owner Peter Guber hold up 2017 jerseys following an announcement in San Francisco, that the NBA basketball team wants to build a new arena on the waterfront in San Francisco. Mayor Lee, who oversaw a technology-driven economic boom in San Francisco that brought with it sky-high housing prices despite his lifelong commitment to economic equality, died suddenly early Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, at age 65. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

On the Headline Sports Podcast with London:

Part of the late San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s legacy will be bringing he Golden State Warriors back to San Francisco. The Warriors left the City back in 1971 for Oakland to become Golden State. Lee worked with the Warriors, UCSF, in helping as a go between the Warriors and UCSF to get the land and the ability to have an arena built at that location after they were rejected at Piers 30-32.

After the Piers 30-32 neighbors said they would put an initiative on the ballot to block construction of a new arena at piers 30-32 Lee got involved in finding a new location for the new basketball arena and found the UCSF location right next to the hospital was land owned by Sales Force who sold the land to the Warriors and Lee worked with UCSF to get their blessing to make it so for a new arena next to the hospital.

London discusses the achievement of Lee and the Warriors new arena. London also discusses the Oakland A’s latest developments on their ongoing search for a new stadium location in downtown Oakland

 

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