{"id":530752,"date":"2026-01-12T02:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/530752\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T02:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:25:15","slug":"warriors-to-honor-late-grateful-dead-frontman-bob-weir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/530752\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors to honor late Grateful Dead frontman Bob Weir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 The Warriors will hold a moment of silence to honor the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/01\/10\/obitutary-bob-weir-grateful-dead-dies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">late Bob Weir<\/a> before they play the Hawks on Sunday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Weir, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/11\/24\/grateful-dead-birthplace-san-jose-plaque\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Bay Area native<\/a>, was a founding member of the legendary rock band Grateful Dead. He died on Saturday, at 78, after battling cancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Warriors coach Steve Kerr began his pregame press conference by remembering the rock and roll icon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously a legendary figure from right here in San Francisco,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cSad day, and the end of an era.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kerr said he wouldn\u2019t consider himself a \u2018Deadhead\u2019 but said he appreciated their impact on the area after reading \u201cSeason of the Witch,\u201d a book about the history of San Francisco culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also was well aware of the impact Weir and the band had on the late Bill Walton, whose son Luke coached under Kerr in the 2010s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest thing is just understanding the history of the band from right here in the city, and knowing how much that meant to people day,\u201d Kerr said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Weir, along with Jerry Garcia, formed the band in Palo Alto in 1965, but is best-associated with San Francisco\u2019s Haight-Ashbury district. The Grateful Dead were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, and also earned a lifetime achievement award in the 2007 Grammy\u2019s. He and the band performed their final show in 2025 in Golden Gate Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 The Warriors will hold a moment of silence to honor the late Bob Weir before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,159,160,479,164,4025,4024,155,165,6,161,162,163,66,255,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-530752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golden-state-warriors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bay-area","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-golden-state","12":"tag-golden-state-warriors","13":"tag-goldenstate","14":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","15":"tag-inside-sports","16":"tag-latest-headlines","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-peninsula","19":"tag-san-francisco","20":"tag-san-francisco-county","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-warriors","23":"tag-warriors-hq"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115879760708856719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}