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Dancing excavators and distasteful jokes at Warriors groundbreaking

The scene: Excavators, rubble, and construction paraphernalia litter the background as men in neon construction gear backflip through the aisles.

Warriors owner Joe Lacob offends members of the audience with hyperbole followed by Mayor Ed Lee making a racial joke.

Helpless witnesses of this spectacle came to the future site of the Chase Center in San Francisco for a groundbreaking celebration this morning. The Warriors decided – er, attempted – to spice things up.

The Chase Center will be the new home of the Golden State Warriors in the 2019-20 season. It's a $1 billion project funded primarily by Lacob in an arguably modern act of team ownership.