OAKLAND – Charles Dudley lives in Seattle, but his mind often wanders. It travels 800 miles south and 50 years in the past.

To the Bay Area. To 1975.

When the Warriors, led by a trail-blazing coach and team-first tactics that could have been ripped straight out of Steve Kerr’s playbook in 2025, stunned the NBA world by capturing the NBA title.

The Warriors swept heavily-favored Washington 4-0. Led by Hall of Famer Rick Barry, it was the kind of improbable run that should have left the imaginations of the larger hoops public spellbound.

“I say it’s the greatest upset in the history of major sports in the United States of America,” Barry, 83, told the Bay Area News Group. “We weren’t even going to be a playoff team or get to the Finals, and then supposedly it’s going to be a sweep. Then

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