OAKLAND — It’s not every day you see someone enter a different dimension before your eyes. Eric “Sleepy” Floyd did it Sunday.
It happened late in the third quarter against the Los Angeles Lakers. He entered a world beyond space and beyond time and even beyond Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The other players vanished. The floor vanished. The city of Oakland vanished. There was just Floyd and his personal basketball and his personal basket.
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Purvis Short, a fellow employee of the Warriors, knew what it was like for his teammate, because Short has been there himself.