In San Francisco, it’s been the same, a continuation of the love that for five years has been showering down from the dizzying heights of the spiffy Chase Center. The generally calm crowd has been booing every opponent on nearly every play. The normally reserved front-row fans have run on to the court to protest calls.
With its famous tenants in a championship hunt for the first time in more than a decade, the downtown Arena has been a deafening swirl of roars, chants and standing ovations for the season’s first appearance of courtside deity Jack Nicholson. In Los Angeles, there has been a return of an unbridled passion not experienced around these parts since Kobe Bryant was leaping on scorers’ tables. The fan bases also aligned themselves for this, warming up their voices and marking their calendars for another shot at shouting down their great geographic annoyances. The stars aligned themselves for this, the Lakers advancing here after James saved a first-round game against the Memphis Grizzlies with a last-second layup and the Warriors advancing when Curry scored a Game 7 record 50 points against the Sacramento Kings. It’s a culture clash typical of SoCal versus NorCal, the Dodgers versus the Giants at warp speed, the Rams versus the 49ers with unadorned contact, a new sizzling version of the same ancient rivalry that has captured this state’s imagination for more than 60 years.
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