It’s a great time for sports fans to be in the Bay Area, Dub Nation! The Valkyries won their first WNBA title on Halloween night at Chase Center and paraded the trophy down the Embarcadero yesterday. Their older siblings the Golden State Warriors have won five straight. And tonight, the building that just hosted a championship celebration hosts the Miami Heat and a quasi homecoming for a guy who earned a few of those parades himself. Wassup, Klay Thompson!
The Warriors remember the last time Miami
came to Chase. Jimmy Butler went down with a torn ACL that night, and he’s still out tonight, along with Kristaps Porzingis, Moses Moody and Gui Santos.
Miami Heat at Golden State Warriors
When: November 5th, 2026 | 7:00 PM PT
TV: NBC Sports Bay Area, NBA TV
Radio: 95.7 The Game
Yesterday while San Francisco was sweeping violet confetti off the Embarcadero, Klay Thompson was in Inglewood remembering exactly who he is. He dropped 30 on 8-of-17 from deep to cap a 20-point comeback over the Clippers. Down two in overtime, Giannis grabbed a defensive rebound with 3.8 seconds left, Miami called timeout, and on the ensuing inbound Giannis found Klay open in the left corner off a Bam screen for the walk-off three. Per a stat making the rounds, it was the first game-winning three of Klay’s career in the final five seconds of the fourth quarter or OT, regular season and playoffs. Klay’s got four rings, 37 points in a quarter, Game 6 in OKC, and yet the walk-off three was the one trinket missing from the shelf.
The Warriors he’s coming back to look nothing like the team that started 0-3. They’ve since beaten the Nuggets, Timberwolves, Lakers, Clippers and Suns, including the Clippers win with both Steph and Draymond sitting out, and Monday’s win over Phoenix came after trailing by 17.
The South Beach super team rolls out Davion Mitchell, Thompson, Andrew Wiggins, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo. Wiggins also won a title with the Warriors back in 2022 and got into the parade action; he joins Klay on the walk to the familiar arena.
Miami’s journey so far hasn’t been smooth. Miami lost its first four before winning three of the next four, and in that Clippers game everybody not named Klay went 2-of-23 from deep.
Through eight games, Miami ranks dead last in the league in opponent threes made (17.1 per game) and opponent three-point percentage (40.5 percent), which is an engraved invitation for a Steph Curry who’s averaging 30 a night. The flip side is a Golden State frontcourt that starts Draymond at center with rookie Yaxel Lendeborg at forward, staring down a two-time MVP and a Bam who just set season highs with 35 points and 10 rebounds. Miami’s been getting nearly 20 points a night at the free throw line, so Lendeborg has to wall up Giannis without fouling. When the Warriors shoot, he has to find Giannis and put a body on him before the Greek Freak can turn a long rebound into a one-man fast break. Then there’s the Steve Kerr and Erik Spoelstra subplot, two guys who drew up gold-medal sets on the same whiteboard in Paris now trying to burn each other’s playbooks.
The schedule does hand Golden State an edge. The Warriors had two days off, while the Heat are on the second night of a back-to-back and their third game in four nights, and Klay’s status is still uncertain. If he plays, Chase will rain love on him during introductions, and then 18,000 people will spend the next two hours praying he left his new walk-off habit in Inglewood.
