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52 Years On The Sidelines: Warriors Official Scorekeeper Tracks Team's Moves For Over 5 Decades

OAKLAND (KPIX 5) -- Fred Kast has the best seat in the house at Golden State Warrior games and he has almost from the start.

"I had just gotten out of college, was at college at Duke University, and went to see a Warrior game when they were playing at the Cow Palace," Kast told KPIX 5.

The year was 1963, the season after the team had moved from Philadelphia. Looking for his seat, he ran into a college pal.

"And saw me coming in and asked if I would be interested in helping him at the scorer's table. When I asked him where the seats were, compared to what I had, it was a no brainer," Kast recalled.

The 74-year-old's view has been courtside for roughly more than 1,500 games. Not bad. But there is work involved, of course, as the official scorer.

"I manually log all of the things pertinent to what is going on, on the floor. When I started all of it was manual," Kast said. "We now have it computerized, my job is still the same, and it's to back up anything should the computer system go down."

Points, fouls, timeouts, that sort of thing.

He has seen every great player in the past half century of basketball. The most natural of them all, he'll tell you, is Steph Curry, and he's seen him play every home game of this very magical season, and he hopes to do it for the foreseeable future.

"As long as I can continue to write, and I'm able to see what's going on, on the court, I hope to do it as long as the Warriors will have me. I serve at their pleasure," Kast said.

But he'll tell you, the pleasure of seeing the world's best players so up close and personal, is mostly his.

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