warriors president rick welts was among the inductees. larry beil spoke to welts about his career and his biggest achievement of his life. >> it's been quite a career from ball boy at age 16 working for the great bill russell to joining russell 49 years later in the hall of fame. >> through some miraculous breakthrough to this day i don't know why, he learned my name and we became friends and it's an unlikely friendship, i would say and it's one thater a long lg>> has s decades in the nba while working in the league office in the 1980s, he came up with the idea of all-star weekend. it wasn't exactly visionary at the time. it was more like job preservation. >> truth be told, my biggest motivation was to keep my job. we went into larry o'brien's office and i got pretty much like a, yeah, no, we're not going to do that. so i don't know what happened. stern walks into my office a week later and says commissioner says we can do it as long as one, you don't embarrass him on his last weekend in office and two, it doesn't cost the number a nickel

rick welts, a tremendous asset to the warriors and the entire nba. >>> college football.the pac-12. number 10 stanford hosting usc tomorrow night. fourth time in the last five years they've opened the pac-12 slate. stanford's won seven of their last 10 against the trojans but lost twice to them last year including in the championship game at levi's stadium. >> that's a huge game. they're a great team. they got a great history. i feel like we're a great team as well. we just know what we're getting into. know that we're getting into a fight. it's going to be a great game. we got to bring our a game and we know they do too. it's going to be fun. >> and cal is at byu tomorrow. >>> on the welts story, 2011, he sends an e-mail to all of his friends and family letting them know the story was coming thought "the new york times," then took a cross-country flight. for 5 1/2 hours he wondered did i just end my career? had no idea. there was no wifi on planes back then. landed, got hundreds of messages of support. >> a leap of faith. >> for sure. >> love it when the successful peopl

the warriors president rick welts was inducted into the basketball hall of fame with the distinct bay area flavor. jason kidd, former st. joe's and cal story and his presenter gary payton and the club and santa clara product joined by don nelson. check out nelly. he lives on maui and he is slim and trim and he's probably lost 60 or 70 pounds. >> how about a current warrior? steph curry on another asian tour. my goodness, he looks like he's a hundred feet tall, currently visiting manila in the philippines and this is a three-country tour sponsored by under armour. that's a wrap on morning sports. have a great weekend, everybody. i'm larry beil. >> now your accuweather forecast from abc 7 news. >> good morning, everyone. lots of clear skies around the bay area and a very different start this morning and a bit of patchy fog and you can see it here with live doppler 7 and patchy fog along the coast and the peninsula coast and also some fog along the monterey bay in santa cruz area, but here we have a beautiful shot from the east bay hills looking clear across the east bay into san francis

. >>> warriors president rick welts inducted into the basketball hall of fame tonight.tinct bay area flavor, with jason kidd, the former st. joe's and cal star, and presenter gary payton the glove. then santa clara product steve nash. look at don nelson here. old warriors coach and dallas coach. check out nelly, who lives on maui now. got the tan, got the long hair. slim and trim. whole new don nelson there. >>> how about current warrior steph curry on another asian tour? looks like he's 100 feet tall right there. gigantic steph. visiting the philippines. this is a three-country tour sponsored by under armour. next up he will visit japan and china. abc 7 sports sponsored by river rock casino. >> that's don nelson? >> nelly is a >>> all right. you made it to the weekend and we hope you enjoy it. >> yes! >> good stuff. we appreciate your time. for sandhya patel, larry beil, i'm dan ashley. right now on jimmy kimmel the one and only terry bradshaw. >> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live"! tonight, terry bradshaw, shannon purser, this week in unnecessary censorsh

. >>> basketball, warriors president rick welts, basketball hall of famer, ceremonies tonight, bay arearesented, star guard jason kidd inducted presented by oakland chum gary payton over his soldier. mvp steve nash tapped into his collegiate roots. >> i had one scholarship offer to santa clara university. i admit i'd never heard of it, but i jumped at the chance and it was an incredible time in my life and it's a very special time in my life. thank you, santa clara. >> i think you waited enough to see chevy chase taking us out of here with the u.s. open tennis. the finals all set, far corner novak djokovic who eventually took apart his opponent in straight sets. face the 2009 champ juan del potro sunday, but the big event is tomorrow, the women's finals, serena williams against naomi osaka, a huge one, serena going for a grand slam title again. >> great match and her opponent is so tickled by it. that's what's so fun to watch. >> indeed. >> we'll be t back. it's finally here. the ross fall fashion event has the brands you want... nooo... yes. ...at "oh, yes!" prices. like that handbag f

. >>> jason kidd and steve nash will be inducted into the hall of fame and also is rick welts who startedis career as ball boy at age 16 and worked for the nba office in new york. he's been the president of suns as well as the warriors, nba lifer dedicated to the game. >> one of 50,000 people responsible for putting on the nba and making it what it is today. those people don't get af recognition. i'm representing them and hope i do well because i think those people deserve to know what they do is important everyday. for me to be recognized this way is a way for them to be recognized as well. >> a big segment on rick tomorrow. >>> first round on the bmw championship in pennsylvania. tiger woods starting on the back nine, scorching, 6 under par, the approach to set up an eagle on 16, finished at 8 under par. his best since winning the 2016 bridgestone his last victory, some company atop the leaderboard, rory mcilroy, co-leaders by a stroke. serena williams reaches the final of the u.s. open, what else is new. falcons leading defending super bowl champions 3-0 in the second quarter. the firs

i told rick welte this was an investment in his own future if he wants to do development because when do you that kind of work and outreach, we're more in favor of supporting projects. i throw it out as a model you can hopefully follow about hiring local people, local businesses, local construction firms to do the work. so that's that. along with the certificate of preference holder comment that commissioner rosales talked about, it saddens me we get people through a process and then because they make a little bit more money or a little bit under that they're disqualified from being able to move into these units because of finances. remember back in history when redevelopment kicked out many of the african americans in the western edition, they didn't base it on finance, they just did. i think we really need to think about if we're looking at being fair and making things right by what the old, old redevelopment agency did, we may have to look at those numbers. because again, people were not kicked out of san francisco because of their income. now it seems as if the income is stopping

i told rick welte this was an investment in his own future if he wants to do development because wheno you that kind of work and outreach, we're more in favor of supporting projects. i throw it out as a model you can hopefully follow about hiring local people, local businesses, local construction firms to do the work. so that's that. along with the certificate of preference holder comment that commissioner rosales talked about, it saddens me we get people through a process and then because they make a little bit more money or a little bit under that they're disqualified from being able to move into these units because of finances. remember back in history when redevelopment kicked out many of the african americans in the western

it's been a big year for the warriors president and c-o-o rick welts..s stamp on building the all new chase center in san francisico.. and now he officially has his coveted orange hall of fame jacket...... the committee presented it today.... there has been an outpouring of compliments from steve kerr and the warriors staff including a pretty cool letter coming from someone who works directly with welts on nbadot com...welts has more than 40 years of expereience in the nba... he got his start as a ball boy with the seattle supersonics.. and he was one of the brains behind creating nba all star weekend.. it's been a long road back to picking up another victory on the tour for tiger woods... but we have seen some moments of optimism...today at the bmw championship... tiger with his lowest round since his last victory 5 years ago.. shooting 8 under 62... tiger not struggling at all with his swing... in position for birdie putts on all but 2 greens...and how about the eagle on 16...tiger woods and rory mcilroy tied for the overnight lead.. later on... we'll

but fromthe people you work with every day....for warriors president and c-o-o rick welts..he not onlycket today... but an outpouring of compliments from steve kerr and the warriors staff including a pretty cool letter coming from someone who works directly with welts every day..welts has welts every day..welts has more than 40 years of expereience in the nba... he got his start as a ball boy with the seattle supersonics.. and he was one of the brains behind creating nba all star weekend.. and with all of his accomplishmen ts, welts surprised by the news of his induction...(sot) <> in golf... tiger in golf... tiger in golf... tiger woods off to a solid star (ken) republicans and democrats clashed today over confidential documents on supreme court nominee -- brett kavanaugh.(pam) alexandra limon reports, democrats broke the rules to prove the materials should not be confidential. trt 1:33 day three of judge kavanaugh's confirmation hearings was out right combativenats arguing democratic senators once again presented a united frontsen. cory booker / nj-di am releasing that email about ra