Top 5 Reasons Watching Warriors Games on TV is Just as FUN as Being Inside R'Oracle Arena

Round 2 of the NBA Playoffs are starting and if you are a Golden State Warriors fan like me than you are more excited than a toddler tasting ice cream for the first time. Everybody knows that the R'Oracle Arena will be rocking. But don't feel bad if you don't have tickets to this sellout event because watching the game on TV can be just as fabulous if not more than being at R'Oracle....

#5 Steph Curry's mouth guard....

Dwight Howard may have his shooting arm sock and Amar'e Stoudemire may have his shooting arm sock and face googles but, my pick for most adorable thing in the NBA is a close-up on Steph Curry's babyface gnawing away on his mouth guard.... Especially when there's only 2-minutes left in the 4^th and we are down by 2. There's something so comforting about his chill factor as he swirls his mouth guard in his mouth. Steph be like, “Pfffssssttt this is not a problem,” to everybody watching.

#4 The Warriors Bench

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I love watching the bench while they are watching their teammates play on the court because they act they are in they are DUBNATION.... Jumping up and down, throwing up 3's with their fingers, twirling their towels, and high-fiving each other, Steph even does the Rumba every once and a while. I get so excited watching them!!! I just want to run down to the bench and squeeze in between them and pass my bucket of popcorn around. 

#3 Mark Jackson's Face

Okay I must admit I was one of those folks that took it personal the way Mark Jackson was fired at end of the season last year. I like many fans didn't understand why a coach who had improved wins for each of his 3 seasons along with leading the Warriors to their first back to back playoff appearances since 1992 was fired in such a despicable way. Despite all the rumors about how Jackson clashed with the front office and some members of the team, I tend to think that there is always a classy way for folks to depart and in my personal opinion Joe Lacob was a little unclassy. Just look at his pouty mouth during one of the 2014 NBA Playoff games.  

But you know whats worse than Lacob's pouty mouth? The saltiness displayed on Mark Jackson's face whenever he commentates during a Warriors games. It must be absolute torture to watch the team he groomed to be champions to continue their magical ride on what has been deemed their "FAIRYTALE" season with their new head coach, Steve Kerr. OMG ESPN just end this already!

#2 @Money23Green

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Who's the most notorious trash talker in the NBA today? If you're thinking it's Kevin Garnett you are wrong. It's actually DUBNATION's very own and completely lovable #23, Draymond “Money” Green.  

To quote a friend and fellow Warriors fan who is always watching from home, “Draymond stay talking shit in slo-motion.” Yes indeed he does. Although it's a beauty to watch my first pick for Defensive Player of the Year physically berate his opponents up and down the court when you are at the actual game, nothing is better than the verbal tear down Money Green serves up to his opponents in slo-motion. But if you are at the game you miss out on the slo-mo and honestly trash talk in slo-motion is the best trash talk there is.

#1 DUBNATION

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Even Pelican'ts (and yes I spelled that right) head coach, Monty Williams, had to admit that 19,596 Loud and Proud Warrior fans can be a little hard on the eardrums. I mean they did get sweeped. I would like to think that us members of the DUBNATION are the main reason for that. (On a sidenote: The way Monty Williams was complaining about the noise at the R'Oracle would make you think he had never visited the place. But honestly anybody with the volume on knows that Warriors fans can be a little loud....IJS)

Nonetheless, Whether you are in your living or at one of the many official Warriors Playoffs Watch Parties —with all proceeds raised going to local Bay Area charities through the Warriors Communities Foundation---I'm thinking if you are sensitive to noise pack a pair of earplugs cause it gonna be LOOOOUUUDDD. Everybody knows that you don't have to be inside the R'Oracle Arena to be Loud and Proud especially when the Splash Brothers are hitting them 3's …...