They stand for the prayer that occurs roughly seven minutes before tipoff, stand for national anthem and stay on their feet until their beloved basketball team makes its first basket.
The noise rises and falls and rises again but never completely stops.
The game experience in Oklahoma City is unusual, and the 18,203 folks sure to cram into Chesapeake Energy Arena on Saturday for Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals would like to keep it that way.
The Warriors want to change the temperature in the room from hot and loud to cool and quiet.