“It’s been a really perfect, perfect experience.”The happiness is a far cry from the decades Welts spent hiding his sexuality, fearing that coming out would endanger his career. Same-sex couples. Welts married his partner, Todd Gage, at City Hall earlier that day.Golden State Warriors President Rick Welts (left) and Todd Gage may have made history with their wedding day at S.F. Straight couples. “I think we’ve had consecutive family dinners for 12 or 13 nights in a row. With scouts’ annual tournaments and showcases now canceled or postponed, the Warriors’ front office is This all comes as team owners brace for the possibility of the league not resuming play until mid-June at the earliest. Golden State Warriors president and COO Rick Welts was in New York City on Monday to ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Toward the end of each workday, he writes a staff-wide email detailing the latest developments with the organization, the city and the White House.“I think my job personally is to make sure the organization has a sense of stability,” Welts said. And Welts’ younger sister, Nancy Schulte, and his niece were free, too.
I once saw two men, one dressed as Superman and the other as Aquaman, marry at the top of the grand staircase before embracing under the former’s red cape.It’s San Francisco. How cool is that?”San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight appears Sundays and Tuesdays. For me, anyway.”“He was Mr. 8-F,” Gage told me, still recalling the seat his now-husband selected. Out magazine In San Francisco, it seems like no big deal. “But I guess we made history. The ramifications might extend far beyond a drop in the salary cap that would limit Golden State’s spending power in free agency and, ultimately, hurt players’ earning potential.During a conference call last week with more than 300 employees, Warriors president and chief operating officer Rick Welts fielded variations of the same question: “Is my job safe?” All Welts could do was reiterate that, as soon as Golden State has more information about what the league shutdown means for its bottom line, it will share those findings with the staff.“There’s a level of anxiety from everyone in the country right now about how this could affect their own personal future and their family’s future,” Welts said. Warriors general manager Bob Myers took a break last week from studying video of NBA draft prospects to clean up a spill in his kitchen.The problem was that he had no idea where his wife, Kristen, kept the mop. She has joked to the couple over the years that the first time she saw the handsome Gage, not knowing he was paired up with Welts, she thought, “That’s it — that’s my future.”“She decided that if she couldn’t have him, it would be great if I did,” Welts said with a laugh.Breed said in a statement, “I was proud to perform the nuptials for two amazing San Franciscans, Rick and Todd. Mayor London Breed officiated the wedding of Welts, who turns 67 Tuesday, and Gage, 44, at 11 a.m. Jan. 10. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever done that before.”Connor Letourneau covers the Warriors for The San Francisco Chronicle. When Rick Welts first met him nearly 50 years ago, Donn Bernstein was hauling a beer keg into Welts’ fraternity house. It does confirm that there is such a thing as love at first sight. She writes from the press room at City Hall and gets her ideas from sources, reader tips and observations gleaned from her own life as a San Francisco resident.“You pick your own seat on Southwest, and as luck would have it, I sat myself in the section of the plane that he was serving,” Welts recalled. “Our eyes met a couple of times. “We have to understand that each of us are dependent on each other to reach our goals”. See Rick Welts's compensation, career history, education, & memberships. Over the past three weeks, everyone from All-Star players to video interns has navigated a strange new reality, juggling conference calls and emails with domestic obligations.Given that in-person classes throughout the Bay Area are canceled, parents must schedule their workdays around homeschooling their kids. Heather Knight’s On San Francisco column is produced by talking to numerous sources, attending events across the city and interviewing a spectrum of people, including politicians, bureaucrats and regular residents. Even Kevin Durant, who left the team in October “Never in my lifetime could I have imagined this,” Welts told me in a surprisingly personal interview. She believes in holding politicians accountable for their decisions or, often, lack thereof – and telling the stories of real people and their struggles.Golden State Warriors President Rick Welts marries longtime boyfriend: ‘We made history’
Welts found a date last fall when the Warriors were at home but had a day off, and the Fairmont Hotel was available. Rick has also been an incredible leader in a sports world which hasn’t always been a welcoming place for LGBT people to do something so simple as be open about who they love, and I’m happy to have played a small part in celebrating his marriage.”It was just the family of six, the mayor and a photographer in the wood-paneled room under the seal of San Francisco as the men said, “I do.” The family had lunch at Boulevard afterward and celebrated with 20 friends that evening at Cavalier.