CRUISING SOMEWHERE ABOVE THE EAST COAST AT 41,000 FEET — The Golden State Warriors recently swept a five-game road trip and, along the way, celebrated on the flights in between destinations.
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On the ride from Miami to Orlando, power forward Marreese Speights posted on Instagram a fun little bit showing Andrew Bogut, Festus Ezeli, Leandro Barbosa, and Brandon Rush grooving to the so-called “cocaine-fueled anthem” CoCo by O.T. Genasis. Note: the music wasn’t that loud.
“It’s a weird song,” Speights told reporters today at morning shootaround, “but it’s kind of catchy at the same time.”
“Turning up before we take off to Orlando lol,” Speights wrote on this first of what would become four Instagram posts.
After the Warriors disposed of the Magic for their second straight win on the East Coast swing, the team departed for the Thanksgiving break in Charlotte.
This time, the song was on full blast and heads were bobbing to the beat, the injured David Lee was enjoying a beer, and Draymond Green gleefully singing along, although there was no Barbosa in sight. Presumably, he was filming the session and ad-libbing with bird-like calls, to the enjoyment of the players.
Perhaps the best part was head coach Steve Kerr, in the background checking out the shenanigans and doing a double-take after putting his laptop aside.
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“Everybody liked it, so we just kept doing it,” Speights said at shootaround.
O.T. Genasis himself tweeted out props to the team the day after.
Part 3, on Friday night after the Warriors beat the Hornets and departed for Detroit, took the “CoCo Chronicles” to higher heights.
The bit began with Speights in a black hoodie, looking like a ring-leader of sorts, and panned towards Shaun Livingston, then back to even a dancing Ognjen Kuzmic, to Barbosa, this time the clear perpetrator of the bird call, to Green again as if it were his own music video, to a Stephen Curry cracking up with the hilarity, to Bogut’s interesting hand-dance.
After the Warriors finished off Detroit and headed back home to the Bay Area, Speights posted “Part 4”, the sequel that’s done just for the hell of it, even if series had already reached its peak.
The Barbosa “bird call” was no longer original and Kuzmic was hardly grooving anymore, sporting sunglasses and his own hoodie. Lee had already been sent home early to rehab his hamstring and Bogut had run out of new moves.
“We might do it again, but we don’t know yet,” said Speights today at morning shootaround.
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