"Tim Roye" is a radio play-by-play announcer for the National Basketball Association/NBA's Golden State Warriors. He has been calling Warrior games for KNBR-AM in San Francisco since 1995.

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It was at spring training in Arizona and it was my third season and the Warriors were doing really lousy. I walked into the A's press box, and Bill walked up to me and introduced himself, and said he empathized with me. He remembered when the Warriors traded Wilt Chamberlain to Philadelphia in the 1960s, and he said to stay positive.

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Back when I had a cassette player in my car, I would pop in tapes (of King's broadcasts) during the drive to and from Oakland. They were a joy to listen to. He had incredible descriptive powers and was the ultimate wordsmith. He had the knack of finding the right word at the right moment.

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I came to know him better the last year or so, and I remember he'd be on the A's team bus and in the dugout, and someone would bring up a player, and he would go on and on about him.

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