Brian Murphy

The emotion of the Bruce Bochy retirement announcement unleashed a torrent of memories, so many sweet, rich ones.

I don’t know if we’ve ever seen a superstar as sensitive as Kevin Durant in the Bay Area. Is it a millennial thing? A product of social media?

He died last Sunday, but he had to know that his life was one of the most important lives in the history of San Francisco, in the last 50 years.

James Harden is out here making NBA history. So why does it seem like everyone, especially here in the Warriors-centric Bay Area, is saying: “Meh”?

Why I love sports, Part 3,591: I get to Jock Blog about how Draymond Green, Donald Sutherland, and John Milton have me excited for the next five months of Warriors basketball.

Farhan Zaidi took over the Giants’ head of baseball operations gig on November 6. He was billed as “next gen” by Larry Baer, the Giants’ CEO.

Tell you what. Some sports writers might as well be comedy writers.

His farewell service on Thursday marked the end of his life, a life lived so well as a son, a father, a teammate, a connective thread to generations of San Franciscans; the day marked the end of his life as a Giant.

This Warriors season feels like an ode to joy.

But ever since our KNBR insider, The Athletic’s Marcus Thompson, dropped his now-famous “Man, K.D. out!” sound bite into the capable hands of our producer, Adam Copeland, it’s become a recurring theme on our show, and in the minds of Warriors fans.