Celebrate #DubNation: Parade and Rally For NBA Champs, The Golden State Warriors, On Friday

Oakland will host a parade and rally on Friday for the 2015 NBA champion Golden State Warriors.

The parade will start at 10 a.m. Friday for the Warriors, who won their first title in 40 years Tuesday night by defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers 105-97 in Game 6 of the NBA Finals to close out the series 4-2.

The parade will begin at Broadway and 11th Street and will continue north on Broadway before turning right on Grand Avenue, then right on Harrison Street to Lakeside Drive, which becomes Oak Street. The parade will proceed to the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center for the rally, where fans can line up as soon as 5 a.m., team officials said.

BART will run extra trains through Oakland Friday and will modify routes to accommodate crowds for the parade and rally, according to the team. Check BART web site here.

Details about taking AC Transit to the parade festivities, including information about bus detours in downtown Oakland, are available online at www.actransit.org.

More information about the parade and rally can be found online athttp://www.nba.com/warriors/news/golden-state-warriors-championship-parade-and-rally.

While the game was played in Cleveland, Ohio, a raucous sellout crowd filled the Warriors’ home court, Oracle Arena in Oakland, paying $15 per person to attend a watch party as Golden State clinched the title.

Police in Oakland and San Francisco -- the Warriors’ once and likely future home -- staffed extra officers in anticipation of celebrations if Golden State won.

During last night’s celebrations, the 12th Street Oakland City Center BART station was briefly shut down because of crowds. BART officials announced the closure at 10 p.m. and said it reopened as of 10:37 p.m. No other details about what exactly prompted the closure were immediately available.

And police in Oakland responded to reports of gunshots fired at multiple locations throughout the city in the wake of the series-clinching win. Details about specific incidents and locations were not immediately available.

The Warriors last won the NBA championship in 1975 when they defeated the Washington Bullets. Oakland’s last sports title was the Oakland A’s baseball team, which won the World Series in 1989.

By Bay City News

Photo Paulette Vinson Fry/Map courtesy of Warriors