tv 2022 NBA Championship Celebration SFGTV July 13, 2022 11:30pm-12:01am PDT
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now we are in the city by the bay. we are getting ready for the big parade. the warriors have a lot of fans. you see her at all of the games. the blue and gold for the last few months. welcome the mayor london reed. who does it mean to have the first parade in san francisco. how much are you looking forward to this one? >> let me tell you. i'm so excited the streets are lined in blue and gold which will give a homecoming like no
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other welcome home warriors what has the center and drive city and the whole vibe. what has it meant to the city. >> it meant so much. we are talking about a team and amazing cost that are not just wonderful on the court but off the court. they brought a vibe and energy that's carrying us in the city after two hardiers. it's time to celebrate give me a final thought. how much you looking forward to riding in your own car in this championship team. >> i'll be smiling and waving so hard my face will hurt. which dezer this. i would like you to show so much love to the team and the
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people on the stage. let's give them some love warriors. >> give it up for lon ton. [ applause ] >> all right, now we have the hot seat part of the he think delve sorry. the pingient difficult parade questions. the things where they say what they want to say this is great for the fourth parade. the last broadcasting job that hassen been taken by green. let's hear from steve kerr. >> you say this surprised you? >> we stunk the last two
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years. i don't know if you noticed that. to be back to where we were is incredible and testament to these guys. amazing mentoring from our older to younger guys. a beautiful mix. >> talk about coaching a humble super star stephen curry. he decided to miss free throws the be one of the guys. was it his idea? >> he missed one and you will say he missed free throws. >> he fits in with the group that you elevate above. when you are leaders and so much apart of the mix it's tough to beat. >> with stef it's the combination of talent and he makes everybody want to win for him and with him.
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one guy was an gray. because of what he meant to our guys to our younger guys and older guys it's not easy. andre helped us get through it all. it was a great mix and good mix of vets and young guys it'd was truly an organize nal success this year it's beautiful to work with everybody. >> four championships as a coach and one for the other thumb. >> absolutely. >> give it up for steve kerr. [ applause ] >> fans know this and on tv we look for this. there is nothing better than a wiggens smile. we started to see that more often. let's have andrew and green
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come up here. first year all-star first championship and best basketball you played on the biggest stage. how rewarding for you. >> it was great. now we celebrate. >> whatever you have to say go ahead and do it. let me get out-of-the-way. [ applause ] everyone is nervous right now. >> i'm trying to think of the most controversial thing i could say. this is great. i don't know what do you want
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me to tell you we are better than everybody. [ beeps] that. this has been an amazing year. i told y'all not to let us win a championship. i warned y'all. i'll continue to destroy people on twitter i have been. and instagram stories. i love this group and when i say the group the entire group. there were times we won a championship and everything didn't have to be aligned. for this to work every single person up here had to be aligned. it's so special and you talk about which championship means more. the reality is every single one has it's own journey.
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i was numb because of the ger any this was. what you appreciate for the journey is the people you go through it with. what brings me the most joy everybody thinks i'm talking [ beeps] what brings me the most joy since i won my first one is seeing the guys who won it the first time. in your journey you want that feeling back. the first time you do it you want that feeling back. you never get it again. the only way to get it is feel it through wiggens. feel it through pull, porter, belly, moses. d. lee. this is not d. lee's first time around. you feel it through the guys and that's how you get the sensation again. i'd like to say thank you you
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all and as always [ beeps] everybody else. >> i am assuming andrew has nothing to add. let's bring up stephen curry and clay thompson. last time we won this stef gave a speech and how important the fans was and the journey with his brothers and getting to the mountaintop and clay said whatever he just said. i'll start with clay instead. 941 days. when you came back in the cleveland game did you have an idea how much people loved you and appreciated you and we missed you? >> i mean.
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[ applause ] >> that goes both ways. i love being a resident of the bay area. i mean, just really mature draymond. he has the maturity level of a third grader. just seeing everybody in the neighborhood so excited and standing ovation from the chef and waiters. that's what it is about the little wins. they would tell me about the little wins during my rehab. that's something i would take for the rest of my life. just the small things in life that inspired me to keep going. whether it's taking a picture with an old lauddy lady r young kid. dub nation has no bounds and
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we have fans from all walks of life. [ applause ] >> if you get a second bulldog would it be named ca nnoli. >> i was watching a lot of chris farley videos. i would put-on semipro or chris tucker. me and peter are big friend people. >> stef, to win game six you were as emotional as i ever saw you. you cried on the court. >> who cries on the basketball court. no crying in basketball. >> tell us about being overwhelmed in there? >> tell me about what that meant. >> i think everybody that's been said on the stage if you say it out loud or internalize it you carry the journey with
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you every single day. to know what we have been through and my brother went through for almost three years. what we went through as a team to retool, regroup, rejuvenate what we had. just like taking snapshots of the last three years all of that came out. once we change buildings and carry the championship dna with us. the emotion was everything i got to the real questions what will they say now. >> i don't know if it makes you goodnow. i have to play for coach kerr and go to paris.
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>> it's just amazing. an amazing feeling. everybody that has a part in that is the most important thing that trophy is nice. >> finish it off for andre andre and draymond. finish off the parade before we jump into cars with the kind of thought and o ohmage to fans. >> we have grown up in y'alls eyes. from 2015 when we wondered what shaving cream was because we didn't have the ability to grow that stuff and know what we have carried the last eight years. how cool is it. 7 years to the date from game six of 2015 to game six of 2022. [ applause ] >> the exact same day we
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celebrate another championship. to know, we represent you guys. the life that you give us. the inspiration. the free males meals and standing ovations in the kitchen. >> i love those. all of that matters. this is what it's about. entertaining you guys and giving you something to cheer for. it's giving us the opportunity to go through amazing things that we haven't done in history and representing the entire bay area. it means a lot. dray went on a vacation but for us to know we have all been here the entire time and try to continue to build this. we are back having a practice raid in san francisco. >> before we wrap-up i need your leadership. all of you to organize the
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celebrations. public work system in the middle of things, doing inspections and cleanings and organizing our crews so we are used to creating something it is something we know how to do. >> this is managed by city workers. they are out here doing the jobs to make sure our city looks good in our city time. >> we are also routing for the warriors whether we work. it was thrilling when they won and we had to get to work to plan for the parade and to make sure that everybody in the city everybody that come to the city is safe and taken care of. >> a lot went everwent in 100 hours of planning with the warrior and mayors office and city partners it took a team to make today possible.
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>> important this the department has the presence, seeing the priority and vehicles makes everyone feel safe we value our commute and serve it, it is important. >> the giant crowds we are to bring out our specialized equipment. we have small response united staffed by a paramedic and mt the small golf cart devices have a gender and he get in and out of crowds. >> i'm here to help people get to where they need to go and figure out the bus routes and navigate things temperature is important we take care of safety and make sure everyone gets to where they need to so everyone can celebrate the warrior and be out on parade day. >> how is or ems book >> when we have been able to do is set up mobile command posts. and we partnered with the private sector with verizon to
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provide priority communication so we can run our entire emergency response on that network for our first responders. we know they will work even though we are getting thousands of people all competing for the same network to send photos and e maild and texts and video our first responders are able to do the same amongst the large crowd. >> get out here at 5:30 a.m. and saw employees cleaning the street its takes a team to build a champion. >> i love it and bum when he left i'm glad he is back no matter how much he plays or does not play that man's heart and spirit he carries everyone along and really mentor people and mentoring is so important whether in basketball or the fire service or ems. mentoring is huge and having a presence like that around is
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huge. >> my favorite player is jordan i like he is a role player and come out as a starter i feel similar to the city i like a structure and plan when there is an opportunity to lead i like that, also. >> the player i like lisa. he is similar to me all there and game is in the pretty but gets the job done. every time he scores all right. my man is back. >> happy with seth curry's wife strong. she is a leader and she just really puts on a great face for females and being strong and in the face of challenge and negativity. [music] [crowd noise] >> they were tons and tons and tons of blue and yellow
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confetti. every wrchl the end we picked up 38 tons of trash. mostly confetti. >> in terms of for our crews we were ready. after we had been data break and done carnival in may. our team was prepped to do the work and they felt tremendous pride in part of the huge celebration and tremendous pride in the coordination we did with the mayor's office, the police department issue public health and the city agencies that got together and put on a party for the bay area. put on the party for the nation. [crowd noise] [music]c]c]c]c]c]
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