The NBA Finals: This jacket is the real MVP

With apologies to Andre Iguodala and Quentin Tarantino, the night the Warriors won their first title since 1975, this is how I tucked my son in.

By Andrew Pridgen

Hello, little man. Boy, I sure heard a bunch about you.

See, I’m your dad.

I was in that pit of hell called being a Warriors fan for 40 years.

Forty years. I know that’s hard for you to understand, but that’s the entirety of my life. My whole life.

Hopefully, you’ll never have to experience this yourself, but when fans are in a situation like that, for as long as we were, you take on certain responsibilities of the other.

If it had been me who had not made it, perhaps another long-suffering Warrior fan would be talking right now to you. But the way it turned out it’s just me.

I’ve got somethin’ for you.

This jacket.

This jacket…