“Welcome to Chase Center,” said Golden State Warriors team president Rick Welts as he stood in front of the team’s new home in San Francisco’s Mission Bay. “I’ve been waiting over seven years to say that.”
Welts was addressing members of the media before a tour of the new facility Monday (see the photos here), not quite six weeks before it will first see its first preseason game on Oct. 5, with Steph Curry and the Warriors taking on LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers.
But it won’t be the Warriors who open the 18,000-seat, privately funded sports and entertainment center.