A dream delayed: Bay Area’s Chance McMillian has Warriors career put on pause

VALLEJO – Like an innumerable number of other Bay Area kids watching television on May 11, 2007, 6-year-old Chance McMillian was awestruck when Warriors guard Baron Davis cocked back his right arm and threw down an iconic poster dunk through Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko. 

After his beloved “We Believe” Warriors finished off the 125-105 victory to cut Utah’s second-round series lead to 2-1, McMillian sprinted out of his family’s home in east Vallejo and made a beeline to the basketball goal rooted in the driveway.