SAN FRANCISCO — It was a late San Francisco night in the middle of September. Alfonzo McKinnie had just recently gotten back from Chicago, and he wanted to see the new arena. So he hopped onto one of those rental scooters.
“That was my first time riding one of those. I see them everywhere,” McKinnie said. “I just rode all the way around just to see the arena. You know, because there’s been a lot of buildup to this moment.”
McKinnie was impressed. Outside: the craning, shining walls glittering along the San Francisco Bay and, according to McKinnie, “they had security at every checkpoint.