I guess whats a few here and there . I thought fireworks coming until tonight. Then the sports world blows up with the news that kevin durant will in fact sign with golden state. He wrote that the decision was based on, quote, potential for my growth as a player. Whatever. Are glad to have you. Its a two year 56 million contract. Durant averaged 28 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists a game last year. Scored 20 in 67 games in a row. In short, this is one of the top three players in the league with steph and lebron. The deal cant become additional until july 7. Twitter world exploding with the news. There has been reaction near and far. We start close to home. Draymond green, welcome to the family. How about e40 chiming in. Welcome to the bay where the players play. Kevin durant. Andre ward. Super middleweight champion of the world, oakland native. Congrats to my bro kevin durant and dub nation. We have a contender in the west bay. This is my favorite. Kevins mom. I am jumping up and down. Le
Bought into everything the dubs had to offer saying the decision was based on quote, the potential for my growth as a player. It speaks volumes about the warriors franchise, great ownership, great management, great players, great place to live. Locally, he will be embraced without reservation. Draymond green welcoming him to the warriors family saying lets do what were saying out to do. Oklahoma city but predictably not so fond of the move pick nationally a healthy mix of all, Marcin Gortat opining are they going to score 200 points a game . And skepticism, you saw a little bit at the end of last year. The public sort of turned on them. Now they will really turn on them. They look like bullies, 1 . Bernie sanders would have a field day with golden state today. The warriors of course arent concerned about any of that. Theyre only worried if it is in fact a worry is how to reconstruct their roster to accommodate durants salary. Harrison barnes, festus ezeli gone. With barbosa and mo spei
And i think this speaks to one of the more underrated aspects of this warriors club, not only is this roster littered with terrific players, these are good high character guys and kevin durant is going to fit right in. I was at home with my kids this morning when we heard it before 9 00 this morning, we were surprised when we heard hes coming but we also learned they are losing bogut, barnes and is easily. But now the news that maybe we know who is going to replace bogut . Right. Word from yahoo sports that zaza pachulia, formerly of the match mavericks will sign with golden state for the mid level exemption. It will be 2. 9 million and again cant be official until later in the week but hes not a big score but doesnt need to be. He plays good defense and i think can contribute. We were talk over the weekend talking over the weekend about the free agency frenzy. Ive never seen anything like it. Have you . Nobody has. The nba salarycap went through the roof this year. So Much Television
Place. In the past year or two drug over doses and prostitution and gunfire, thats why s. W. A. T was here. The residents, some who did nothing wrong were down on their luck had to be evicted. They are carrying a steady stream of belongings out of the building right now as we speak. Some of them are going to church out reach next door. The prosecutor is still talking right now. The press conference just began. It is a tough case to make because obviously several agencies have to participate in this and collect evidence and such. Let me see if i can grab prosecutor, can we talk over here . He is in the middle of that. We will wrp it up and when the prosecutor is free if need be thank you, paul. I know you will keep us abreast as to what is going on there. What you are looking at is video that just came into the newsroom moments ago. Thats what it looks like driving on i77 right now. Snowflakes steadily hitting the windshield and drivers slowing down all day long. It is dangerous driving
Struck by the train at the time. No one else was injured. State transportation officials call this a serious fail your. We failed our passengers today because those procedures whether they were followed or not, something happened that should not have been able to happen, that put our passengers in finger. Well that conductor has been released from hospital, he is not facing charges that we know of. Governor charlie bicker earlier said said the state is looking into the possibility that somebody tamper weekend the security equipment on that train. The fbi is looking into that liam, thank you. Still ahead we went digging in for more information, we found similar incidents in two other cities, well take a closer look at how common or uncommon this type of incident is, that lisa. David a new app for kids lets them log in and get kids arent just using it for that. Our lieu he is a has a look at what every parent needs to know. With its psych a del i can looking tiger icon, after school thou