Warriors rediscover their love of the ‘CoCo’ for post-championship singalong
Way back in the long, long ago of November 2014, the Golden State Warriors took to celebrating their victories — and even in the long, long ago, there were quite a few of them, as the Dubs didn’t collect their third defeat until mid-December — with in-flight full-squad renditions of O.T. Genasis’ “CoCo,” a very catchy rap song that just happens to be pretty much entirely about making, buying and selling cocaine.
Somewhere along the way, some interested party who didn’t particularly care for one of the NBA’s top teams — not to mention one led by ascendant superstar and emerging face of the league Stephen Curry — toasting each W by bonding over group singalongs about kilos, bricks and whipping baking soda piped up, sharply suggested in early December that the Warriors cut the “CoCo” completely.
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That was then, though. Now, after having dispatched the Cleveland Cavaliers in six games in the 2015 NBA Finals, the Warriors are NBA champions. (Sorry, forgive me, Leandro; they “are championship.”) And with everyone in blue and yellow in quite a celebratory mood, the newly crowned champs decided to throw caution to the wind, risk displeasing someone somewhere, and crank up what noted beverage aficionado and small forward Harrison Barnes called “the championship edition” of their early-season hit:
Even on the plane, evidently, David Lee and Draymond Green are some playmaking dudes. (I bet the “need a brick, miss my free throw” line — complete with “Dwight!” ad lib — is especially fun to rap after you’ve beaten the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference finals.)
Hat-tip (and congratulations) to Warriors World.
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