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At first, I was afraid to ask Golden State Warriors head coach Mark Jackson the question. How would he react? Would he be mad? Would he answer or just give me a Brooklyn glare? All I wanted to know was an insight into Jackson's strategy. Can the Warriors prepare for the playoffs even though they haven't clinched their own spot? What he says proves there are no dumb questions and no obvious answers.

The TransBay Transit Center has published this new 10-day look ahead: 10 Day Look Ahead: Construction Activities Friday, March 29, 2013 – Sunday, April 7, 2013 NOTICE - FULL STREET CLOSURE - BEALE STREET BRIDGE ( BETWEEN MISSION & HOWARD STREETS), APRIL 5-8 WEATHER CONTINGENCY DATE, APRIL 12-15 Beale Street will be closed April 5-8, to install the third and final traffic bridge on Beale Street, between Mission and Howard Streets. Beale Street will be closed to through traffic and pedestrians beginning Friday at 7:00 PM and will reopen Monday at 5:00 AM. This week at Transbay... What to Expect This Weekend (3/30/13 – 3/31/13): Eastern Transit Center Site (Between Beale and Fremont Streets): This weekend there is no construction work scheduled for Saturday, March 30 or Sunday, March 31. Central Transit Center Site (Between First and Fremont Streets): This weekend there is no construction work scheduled for Saturday, March 30 or Sunday, March 31. Western Transit Ce

The Sacramento Kings are not going to the playoffs and aren't playing well. However, as coach Mark Jackson of the Warriors points out, Sacramento has players that, when hot, can bury any team in the league.

The Oakland Running Festival drew 9,100 runners out for a sunny Sunday in Oakland, and thousands more onlookers. Here's my video, where I talk to Oaklanders, young and old about the event. I thank everyone who stopped to talk with me, and to Lee Corrigan, of Corrigan Sports, the race producer.

Over at Zennie62.com, the Oakland City Auditor’s Report by Courtney Ruby was called a "racist attack" on two of Oakland's black city councilmembers, Desley Woods and Larry Reid. The reason is that the report itself says that the claims of violating the Oakland City Charter's Section 218 were not backed with hard evidence, but heresay, and the report itself says that there is a "culture of interference" done by "multiple councilmembers" - then why not name them? Visit Zennie62.com here: Oakland City Auditor’s Report A Racist Attack On Black Councilmembers

Oakland City Auditor Courtney Ruby continues the game of using personal politics to get headlines, but with an ugly twist: she issued an "interference" report that, even though she said applied to all Oakland elected and appointed officials in City Hall in a "culture of interference," only named two Oakland black councilmembers, Larry Reid and Desley Brooks - and not the white Oakland councilmembers and public officials she said were part of the problem. Then Courtney Ruby said they broke the law of the City's Charter and used questionable evidence to make the claim. More on this at Zennie62.com and Oakland Focus and San Francisco Focus blogs today, Friday. 

Come to the Oakland Tweetup, Friday, April 5th, at 6:30 PM, Loring Cafe, at 37 Grand Ave in Oakland's Uptown District! A Tweetup is a kind of meeting of people who regularly use Twitter, and have one thing in common.  In this case, that something is we all live in and love Oakland, and actively communicate about what's happening using Twitter.  A Tweetup's a great way to make excellent business contacts, or just get to know the people who make up, in this case, Oakland. The tweetup will be held at the new, beautiful Oakland cafe and eatery called Loring Cafe.    Come at 6:30 and look for me, Zennie Abraham of @Zennie62, and of this video about Loring before it opened: And Friday, April 5th, is the time of the next Art Murmur / First Friday event for April, so it's going to be a great time. Come and join us at Loring Cafe, and stay tuned to this blog, Zennie62, or Twitter with #OakTweetup  for updates. 

Ok, who had the best dunk: LeBron James Over Jason Terry Or Dendre Jordan Over Brendan Knight? Simple question. Me? I chose LeBron because of the scowl after he did it.

Over at Oakland News at Zennie62 is the blog post about an ugly assault captured on video on YouTube that shows a young Jewish woman being assaulted by the brunette white woman and just for writing that she loved her country, Israel, in hebrew on the plaza's grounds. There's also more information on downtown vandalism associated with a protest that happened on March 16th. See: Oakland News: City Hall Plaza Assault On Woman; Protesters Vandalize Downtown

Golden State Warriors Head Coach Mark Jackson said that the play by Atlanta Hawks' Dahntay Jones - where he placed his foot in such a way as to cause LA Lakers Forward Kobe Bryant to be injured as he came down from a fade-away shot - was "dangerous," but stopped short of calling it deliberate, saying that he didn't know what was in Dahntay Jones' head at the time. Video by Kraig Debro for Zennie62Media.

Eric Casher, who's a friend of this blogger, and appeared in my video from the Democratic National Convention about Victoria Jackson... ..has been named to a vacant position on the Fair Political Practices Commission by California Attorney General Kamila Harris. Eric Casher works for Meyer Nave, the same law firm where former Oakland City Attorney Jayne Williams is a partner, and where he has represented "public and private developers, design professionals, general contractors, subcontractors, as well as, government agencies and municipalities," according to Eric's bio.   Congratulations to Eric, who's been a steady political player, maintain the right relationships, and making the right moves since we were both volunteers in the campaign to elect Barack Obama President Of The United States.

Note: Updated: 12:02 AM EST   The Oakland Army Base Lawsuit is still alive. The lawsuit pitting Oakland photographer and activist Gene Hazzard against The City Of Oakland, and pretty much anyone who represents the Oakland Establishment (if there is such a thing, and there is) is still alive, and that's to the surprise of even Hazzard himself, who said he expected "an adverse ruling," from Alameda County Superior Court Judge John True, but didn't get one.  Video: Background interview with Gene Hazzard: Instead, what he, and the Oakland Establishment he's suing, got was Judge True's call for a June 6th "case management conference" around a new item of information that Hazzard would not comment on. What Hazzard did tell this blogger was that  his two complaints were combined into one large one by Judge True.  So far, in total, it has to be written that this lawsuit has gone on this far because Hazzard has made a basic good point about the wa