{"id":49638,"date":"2022-06-21T16:05:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T23:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49638"},"modified":"2022-06-21T16:05:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T23:05:05","slug":"stephen-curry-and-chesa-boudin-mirror-opposites-of-whats-missing-and-whats-possible-for-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49638","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Curry and Chesa Boudin \u2014 Mirror Opposites of What’s Missing and What’s Possible for San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jaya Padmanabhan\u00a0 ( Ethnic Media Services )<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Just as the ousted district attorney Chesa Boudin\u00a0came to symbolize\u00a0all that\u2019s wrong with San Francisco, the basketball star Stephen Curry\u00a0now signifies\u00a0all that\u2019s remarkable\u00a0about it \u2014 a city columnist Herb Caen compared to heaven: “One day if I do go to heaven … I’ll look around and say, ‘It ain’t bad, but it ain’t San Francisco.”<\/p>\n

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The scrappy Golden State Warriors won the NBA title on the 6th<\/sup>\u00a0of 7 games against the Boston Celtics. The Warriors\u2019 win comes on the heels of the primaries, held on June 7, which showcased the rampant disorder in the city and the chaos among its handlers.<\/p>\n

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In the days leading up to the primaries, District Attorney Chesa Boudin became the scapegoat for\u00a0the city’s\u00a0social ills, from homelessness to hate crimes\u00a0targeting\u00a0Asian Americans.\u00a0Voters were split on his record and arguments were loud and contentious on what the city needed to make it \u201clivable\u201d again.<\/p>\n

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Amidst this climate of despair and divisiveness, the greatest point guard of all time, Stephen Curry, led his teammates to victory, game after Finals game,\u00a0reigniting\u00a0optimism for fans from all walks of life, sexual orientations, genders and ages.\u00a0As the clock ticked down at the end of game 6, the city of the Warriors experienced a rare electric high\u00a0\u2014\u00a0if only for that moment.<\/p>\n

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To be sure, Curry could not have brought home the trophy on his own without the help of Draymond Green, with his devil-may-care attitude, performing with the kind of physical and mental agility that have few parallels. Alongside Green were Klay Thompson, Andrew Wiggins, Jordan Poole, and Kevon Looney, as well as the others on the bench. Together they devised a playbook for a victory that\u00a0was hardly\u00a0predicted even six months ago.<\/p>\n

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Curry emerged as the man of the moment, making plays, assisting others, scoring points and holding the Celtics back. He was justifiably rewarded as the MVP of the Finals, a title that had eluded him thus far.<\/p>\n

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But Green put his finger on what lay at the heart of the Warrior victory. “We relied on each other for what we’re great at,” Green said:\u00a0\u00a0a spirit\u00a0of unison that had the players anticipating and filling in for each other, reading plays, passing the ball, and making room for shots that left their fans elated at the display of generosity and skill.<\/p>\n

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Boudin, on the other hand, lost the support of his team as key prosecutors quit the District Attorney\u2019s office at a time when he needed them most. This proved to be an insurmountable hurdle,\u00a0as\u00a0Boudin confronted a\u00a0host of entrenched problems that required innovative thinking, collaboration and compromise.<\/p>\n

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Under Boudin\u2019s watch neither homelessness, crime, mental illness, nor fentanyl overdoses have abated.\u00a0Embroiled in public battles with the San Francisco Police Department,\u00a0he was never able to\u00a0rebuild the consensus that had put him in office.<\/p>\n

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Coach Steve Kerr called the Warriors victory \u201cthe most unlikely\u201d given all that was stacked against the team going into the season. In the last two years, the team was laid low by injuries and changing rosters and picked up the record of being the worst in the league. \u201cFor this group to make it back here \u2014 I am not sure we ever knew we could do this.\u201d remarked Kerr.<\/p>\n

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Unlike a basketball series, San Francisco\u2019s problems appear to have no end game in sight. But\u00a0there are takeaways to be absorbed from the Warriors\u2019 meteoric rise.<\/p>\n

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Both the Boudin recall and the Warriors win are\u00a0mirror opposites\u00a0within\u00a0the city.\u00a0They tell us\u00a0what\u2019s\u00a0missing\u00a0and what’s possible\u00a0to move San Francisco forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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