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NBA FINALS, GAME 6 Raptors 114, Warriors 110

18% fare
EPIC FINALE hike over
AT ORACLE 7 years
on BART
Directors change course,
compromise on charges
By Rachel Swan

BART will raise fares by 18% over seven years,

Stephen Curry exits after the heartbreaking loss to the Raptors in the Warriors’ last game at Oracle Arena.
Thompson injured as curtain falls on memorable era
The end.
Of Oracle. Of the season. Of a
dream. Of a championship run
and, perhaps, of a five-year dynas-
tic run.
In an epic send-off game, on a
“strange, unique night,” as Steve
Kerr christened it, the Warriors’
magic ended.
“Boy, do they compete,” Kerr
said of his players.
None more so than Klay Thomp-
son, who re-
ANN turned to the
floor to shoot
KILLION free throws after
suffering a torn
ACL in the third quarter.
Even without Thompson, they
competed to the very end. In one of
the most thrilling games in the
53-year history of the building, the
Warriors lost 114-110 to the Raptors
in Game 6. Toronto won its first
NBA championship in the last
game in the Warriors’ home build-
ing.
It wasn’t the end the Warriors
wanted. But it was definitely a
finale that the old building de-
served. Thrilling. Deafening.
Heart-stopping.
The man who made Oracle home
to the greatest show on Earth had a
clean look at a potential winning
3-pointer with 8 seconds left, but
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Fans’ sad and shocked expressions reflect the feelings throughout
Oracle Arena at the home team’s narrow loss to the Toronto Raptors.
Inside Stephen Curry missed it. The final
seconds were a confusion of a tech-
1 Farewell to Oracle: Fans cheer nical, timeouts, reviews and fouls.
beloved arena, reminisce. A7
Finally, the buzzer sounded as
1 ‘We’re not done’: Warriors players the moan of “Warr-i-orrs” rever-
promise dynasty will continue. B1 berated around the rafters. Oracle
was over. The wounded, decimated
1 Bruce Jenkins: In the end, the Rap- Warriors were finished.
tors had to stop Curry — and did. B1
“Amazement that we’re sitting in
1 Scott Ostler: The Warriors showed this position, with a chance to win
the heart of champions, even while the game and force a Game 7 and
losing their title. B1 Killion continues on A7
a controversial decision its directors rejected at
first Thursday, drawing angry rebukes from the
general manager and board president. The two
BART leaders were so alarmed that they per-
suaded the board to vote again a few hours later.
The tense flip-flop came during an eight-hour
meeting that cemented BART’s fate for the next
several years. The directors also approved a $2.4
billion budget, decided to lower ticket prices for
low-income riders, and grappled with how to
carry an exploding population of East Bay com-
muters across San Francisco Bay.
Officials lingered over the fare hike conversa-
tion for two hours under the fluorescent lights of
the boardroom, In a morning session, the board
had nixed four scheduled fare increases, putting
at risk $400 million that General Manager Grace
Crunican and others said was vital. They ap-
proved a compromise fare hike later in the day.
“It wasn’t really what I wanted,” said Director
Mark Foley, the crucial swing vote, who at first
opposed the higher fares. He later flipped, con-
vinced that financial stability — and a good bond
rating — are hugely important for BART.
“I think they landed in a good place,” said
Crunican, weary after a day of alternately scold-
ing and praising her colleagues. She retires next
month, and Thursday marked her last board
BART continues on A7
Newsom handed
big wins, a few
losses in budget
By Alexei Koseff
SACRAMENTO — The budget proposal that
Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced in January gave
California’s new leader his first major opportuni-
ty to stake out how he would accomplish the am-
bitious agenda he touted on the campaign trail.
Many of those plans overlapped with the prior-
ities of the Legislature, and they are reflected in
the final $215 billion budget deal reached over the
weekend. Lawmakers passed the budget Thurs-
day, sending it to Newsom for his signature. The
Senate vote was 29-11, and the Assembly ap-
proved it 60-15.
But several key Newsom initiatives were reject-
ed or still await action in budget follow-up bills
that the Legislature will consider in coming
weeks. Those differences underline challenges
the governor will face to achieve signature cam-
paign promises such as creating a universal
health care system and building 3.5 million homes
by 2025.
Budget continues on A6

Datebook
Bob Dylan’s
Yosemite park rangers ready
superb 1970s
road show,
to save visitors from wild river
the Rolling By Steve Rubenstein
Thunder YOSEMITE NATIONAL
Revue, gets PARK — Ten people jumped into
the frigid, fast-flowing Merced
a rollicking River on Thursday morning,
revisit in a hardly ever a good idea.
“That,” said park Ranger
new Martin Jason Deger, “was really cold.
Scorsese You’re at the river’s mercy out
there. The river’s going to do
documentary with you what it wants to.”
on Netflix. E1 What the river wanted to do
with Deger was dash him to
pieces on a pile of gray rocks.
But his friends in the yellow
Sporting Green helmets — all members of Yo-
semite’s famed search-and-
Justin Rose takes lead with record-tying rescue team — were not about Yalonda M. James / The Chronicle

round in U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. B3 to let that happen.
Deger and his pals were
spending the day in helmets,
wetsuits and life jackets, prac-
Weather ticing how to rescue the hand-
Low clouds, ful of Yosemite visitors who
then sunshine. each year ignore warnings,
Highs: 63-87. ignore signs, ignore all vestiges
Lows: 51-58. D4 of common sense and then find
Jim Reynolds of the Yosemite search-and-rescue team puts on
swim fins as he trains for Merced River swift-water rescues.
themselves trapped in the dead- flowing beneath Sugar Pine
ly torrents that whoosh Bridge was 46 degrees, which is
through Yosemite National unbearably cold, and traveling
Park like an RV bearing down 20 mph, which is unbelievably
on the last vacant campsite. fast. Right now, park regulars
On Thursday, the water Yosemite continues on A6