OAKLAND – For a moment, Rick Barry feared for his life.
The Warriors had won the 1975 NBA championship over the former Washington Bullets, and had landed in Oakland after an oversized crowd at San Francisco International Airport forced them to change their travel itinerary. When Barry and his teammates took a cab from Oakland to San Francisco to greet those fans, other Warriors fans almost prevented them from doing so.
“They jumped up on top of the cabs. The roof of the cab I was in was getting crushed. It was crazy,” Barry said. “I was a little worried when the roof started to cave in.