The NBA had a very busy start to its free agency market this week, dozens of big players swapped teams, changing the fates of various franchises overnight.  Kevin Durant left the Warriors to join Kyrie Irving (who left the Celtics) to team up in Brooklyn while longtime Warrior Andre Iguodala

The NBA had a very busy start to its free agency market this week, dozens of big players swapped teams, changing the fates of various franchises overnight.  Kevin Durant left the Warriors to join Kyrie Irving (who left the Celtics) to team up in Brooklyn while longtime Warrior Andre Iguodala

The NBA had a very busy start to its free agency market this week, dozens of big players swapped teams, changing the fates of various franchises overnight.  Kevin Durant left the Warriors to join Kyrie Irving (who left the Celtics) to team up in Brooklyn while longtime Warrior Andre Iguodala

The NBA had a very busy start to its free agency market this week, dozens of big players swapped teams, changing the fates of various franchises overnight.  Kevin Durant left the Warriors to join Kyrie Irving (who left the Celtics) to team up in Brooklyn while longtime Warrior Andre Iguodala

Tuesday was pretty damn near perfect in downtown Oakland at 73 degrees when the Town came out in blue and gold force to welcome their back-to-back champions home. Most reports anticipated a crowd size of about 1 million fans. The sardine-packed parade route and 30-minute lines at BART ticketing machines

In this week’s wrap, we’ll take a look at the better-late-than-never push to end federal ridiculousness about marijuana, the capture of the Golden State Killer, the Trump legal circus, a three-alarm fire in Concord, Cosby’s guilty verdict and the Warriors advancement to Round 2…because variety really is the spice of