'How 'Bout This Jazz' newsletter: At practice in San Francisco, the music rotation consisted of Bay Area hip-hop legends E-40, Too $hort and Mac Dre — until Leandro Bolmaro took control and changed to club music, much to his teammates' chagrin. TakeNote
Meanwhile, I got to just chat with coach Will Hardy for a bit. In addition to him mocking beat writer Tony Jones’ boast that his beloved Mets are going to win the World Series this coming season , I got him to finally answer a question I’d had ever since I put together’s the question you want to ask me?!” he replied, laughing.
Turns out, growing up in Virginia, he liked to play outside without his shoes on, simply enjoying the feel of bare feet on whatever. At Williams College in Northwest Massachusetts, it was cold for much of the year, so when it got warm enough, he took his shoes off at every opportunity, usually during those softball games.Many times, the interviews we do with players are geared toward a specific game or outcome or incident.
Another fun component of this job is getting to know beat writers who cover other teams, and hearing their various stories about their jobs. And on Wednesday night, all of the Warriors beat writers in the Chase Center media workroom had just one topic of discussion: 20-year-old rookie Patrick Baldwin Jr. admitting in his postgame interview that he’d never had a peanut butter and jelly sandwichHe’s been playing with the team’s G League affiliate in Santa Cruz, went through a late-afternoon practice, got told to book it to San Francisco because Golden State was short-handed, arrived an hour before tipoff, then scored 11 points in 13 minutes.
Then came the bombshell revelation that the player nicknamed PBJ had never had a PBJ until a week or so ago, making everyone facetiously wonder what was wrong with his parents. He apparently is now enamored enough that he had two of them on the ride to the arena.
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