Tim Hardaway Apologizes for Rape Joke During Warriors Broadcast

The Warriors turned back the clock to reunite franchise greats Monday night, but the evening wasn’t without an ugly blemish.

Golden State welcomed back Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond and Chris Mullin in a salute to the team’s famed Run TMC days of the early 1990s and let the trio broadcast the team’s game against the Spurs on NBC Sports Bay Area.

Unfortunately, Hardaway put his foot firmly in his mouth with an offensive comment early in the third quarter. After San Antonio’s Jakob Poeltl fouled Warriors star Stephen Curry on a chippy play, Hardaway used an inappropriate metaphor to describe what happened.

“So y’all thought that was great D? I thought that was just raping him,” Hardaway said. “I…