Steph Curry isn’t pleased about Oakland losing their pro sports teams

You know, at one point from 1972-1976 there was an Oakland professional team that won the championship? The A’s three-peated from ‘72-’74. The Warriors won the NBA Finals in ‘75. And the Raiders won the Super Bowl in ‘76.

And now...none of them are in Oakland. The A’s are done playing in the East Bay, headed apparently to Las Vegas. Bay Area legend Stephen Curry, who spent his formative NBA years getting the Warriors out of the trash heap and into a dynasty before the team left Oakland to San Francisco, was asked about the A’s leaving at his team’s media day today.

Here’s the transcript on Curry’s take on the sad, sad situation.

I think overall it’s a sad situation because franchises in any city...to borrow a line from a friend of mine. It’s a sense of hope and inspiration for a community. Every start to a year is way to galvanize in that hope and that unity and that togetherness, having something to look forward.

Not just what it does for the economics of that city. As for what Oakland has meant to me, to say the least, it’s been huge. Just in the way that I came up in the league and being able to play in front of that front front of that fan base for the 10 years.

And knowing the history of the A’s, the Raiders, and the Warriors there...it sucks. But to your point around what me and Ayesha are trying to do in Oakland, it’s a matter of supporting a community that supported us when we were coming up. We’re making sure that we still plant our flag there and have a significant presence there.

But you know it is unfortunate that there aren’t any more professional teams that are representing Oakland, in that fandom, and that sense of pride of being from Oakland. How you kind of work around how tough it is... but for me and Ayesha obviously we take our work there seriously, especially in the school system creating opportunities for the next generation.

Other than that, I have to admit how bad it is.