It takes me back to the stories my dad would tell Coolhand and I when we were kids, about all the Raider players who lived in the neighborhood and shopped in the same stores as the town folk. Now with the high salaries, players can afford to live in the surrounding suburbs, which doesn’t endow them with that urban Oakland grittiness. Thank you Stephen for at least living in Oakland, and please brighten those gray skies you are now seeing from your balcony.

PS: Hopefully we’ll see you at the Lake Chalet (bottom left) on Tuesdays. Cheers!
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Coolhand’s Post text: One of the most interesting aspects of Curry’s new digs is that he is now living in the same building that Black Panther Party founder Huey Newton once did. After Huey was released from prison, he was put up in the high-rise as a precautionary measure. His critics of course would see this as Huey drinking his own Kool-Aid and living the celebrity high life. However, former Panther David Hilliard maintains that Huey would have been in danger elsewhere, and that placing him in the penthouse across from A’s owner Charlie Finley was a strategic move.

It is true that Huey began a bit of a downward spiral during this period of his life, but Hilliard, a childhood friend, insists that they both battled a variety of addictions their entire lives. This revelation may surprise some who have placed the revolutionary on a pedestal, but it also humanizes the dynamic leader.

So Mr. Curry, though you will never be as great as Huey was, hopefully your end will be more glorious. Bueno suerte!