SAN FRANCISCO – Some kids kept screaming for Steph Curry’s autograph. The more he limped and the more he came closer to the sidelines, those cheers became a hushed “oh no” Sunday at Warriors open practice, three days from the regular-season opener of Year 18 for Curry. Curry rolled his right ankle and avoided any kind of serious injury. He never came back to the Chase Center court that night. Steve Kerr a few minutes later walked off it to visit his superstar in the training room, and the air in the building was replaced by a heaviness hoping not to deal with heartache before the season begins.
Until Yaxel Lendeborg had the microphone in his hands.
About a half hour after Curry’s injury, a freshness was felt and the energy was revived from the Warriors rookie’s rendition of Carl Carlton’s “She’s A Bad Mama Jama.” Yaxel Lendeborg is a man of the people singing She’s A Bad Mama Jama pic.twitter.com/IYgUYIMWqn
— Dalton Johnson (@DaltonJ_Johnson) October 18, 2026 Lendeborg captivated his audience. He addressed the crowd and told them to get groovy and...