OAKLAND -- Experienced front-row fans insist that catching a flying MVP requires nothing more than the skills taught in Little League: Stay in front of it, bend your knees and, for goodness' sakes, use two hands.
Matt Swanson, who sits in floor seats at Oracle Arena, varies his techniques depending on the player in question. For a Warriors opponent, he might simply put up "two flat hands so they can run into me like a softer wall."But for Stephen Curry?"I'm a big guy -- I'm 6-4, 270 -- and I would have just stood up and bear-hugged him and not let him fly over the seats," Swanson said.