Personal Narrative: The Golden State Warriors

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The television was shining bright as the sun in the dark family room, on a nice Saturday afternoon in the mountains of Durango, Colorado. It was barley 7:20 in the evening, on June 19th, 2016 when Barack Obama was still president and the Zika virus was spreading around faster than memes. “Blocked by James!” suddenly is yelled on the the bright television in the dark family room. Lebron James just blocked Andre Iguodala off the backboard. At this moment, all the Golden State Warriors fans in the dark family room erupted in anger, confusion, and stress. My mom and I both yelled “Let’s go!”. The Cleveland Cavaliers were up four on the Golden State Warriors. My bandwagon friends we’re hanging out on the couch in their greasy Stephen Curry

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