OAKLAND — Before beginning a lasting coaching tenure that would earn him the 2018 Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award, Doug Moe played for the Oakland Oaks’ 1969 ABA championship team.
“I do remember playing here in the Oakland Coliseum,” Moe said Sunday of that season 49 years ago. “I can’t believe the thing’s still standing.”
The Coliseum Arena is now called Oracle Arena, but the Warriors will exit the facility after the 2018-19 for the new Chase Center in San Francisco.
According to Rick Carlisle, president of the NBA Coaches Association, Moe, 79, was the “godfather of the modern NBA-paced game because he is the guy who really saw this coming.