PRE-GAME: Sights & Sounds From The Warriors’ Last Morning Shootaround At Cleveland, Before 2016 NBA Finals Game 6

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QUICKEN LOANS ARENA, CLEVELAND, OH — This morning was (probably) the last shootaround of the 2015-16 season, as even if the Golden State Warriors lose Game 6 tonight to the Cleveland Cavaliers — which would be two losses in a row — they will not likely have a morning shootaround for Game 7 because tipoff of Game 7 is scheduled to be early, at 5:00PM local Pacific time.

By the way, the above was brought to light for me by John Dickinson of 95.7 The Game.

Some brief highlights:

  • Andrew Bogut was visibly distraught from his knee injury suffered.
  • Reporter Ron Kroichick shook Bogut’s hand after the interview, knowing how tough it was for Bogut to answer those questions. I stuck around for nearly the whole interview, even as head coach Steve Kerr‘s started at halfcourt, because I wanted to pay proper respects to the big man and not just run off as if I were just getting what I wanted for content. I gave Bogut a fist-bump afterwards, knowing how hard it must be for him to not only miss the NBA Finals, but also most likely the Olympics (again).
  • Andre Iguodala blocked our camera shot for a few seconds.
  • Stephen Curry missed a bevy of “walk-away” shots. Ironically, ESPN and former Cavs reporter Brian Windhorst made a big deal of Curry’s missed shots in practice a few days ago.

I have more highlights but will hope to add them later.

Here are some other views from our Snapchat account, “letsgowarriors”:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLlvvPlNSeI&w=420&h=315]

(Photo: @letsgowarriors Instagram account via @poormanscommish)

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