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Doors open about 90 minutes before tip-off here.
The first travel row is your leave-by time. Put in your tip-off time, tap any duration, and the plan recomputes backward.
Most people take the train here. Pick Transit under Getting there and the drive rows become the ride.
NBA game night at Chase Center, home of the Golden State Warriors. For a concert here, start from the concert night plan instead: a support act sets the deadline rather than the anthem.
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The 20-minute drive is a typical run from San Francisco without game-day traffic (the optimistic number). In the app, set Chase Center as the destination and Apple Maps fills in the time from where you’re leaving.
Then add for game day: thousands aiming at the same exit and lots (real drive to Chase Center). Change the row and every step before it moves.
The time on your ticket is when the ball goes up. Both teams warm up on the floor before that, and the introductions run right up to it. Aim for ten to fifteen minutes earlier if you want to be in your seat for any of it.
Screening at the doors usually decides it. Every NBA arena runs walk-through detectors, and the queue is the gap between arriving and being inside. People who miss the start rarely misjudge the drive; they misjudge the lot walk and the line.
Start times here are the team's own. The NBA sells no national window, so a game goes on when the building and the market suit and there is nothing to convert from Eastern. These are the slots this team plays most often.
These are Chase Center’s own times. The team publishes start times with the schedule in the summer and a few move again for television during the season, so take the time on your ticket over the one you remember.
Cup group games, Christmas Day, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day afternoon and a nationally televised night run their own times. Type those in on the tip-off row.
The train is the easy way in, and your game ticket counts as an all-day Muni fare. The T Third stops at UCSF/Chase Center on Third Street at 16th Street, and on game nights extra trains signed S Shuttle Mission Bay run from Chinatown–Rose Pak through the Central Subway on top of the regular T. From BART, get off at Powell and walk through to Union Square/Market Street for the T, or get off at 16th St Mission and take the 78X Arena Express bus, which only runs around events.
Caltrain riders get off at San Francisco Station at 4th and King and either catch the T or walk. The ferry runs from Oakland and Alameda to Pier 48½ for every Warriors home game. BART and Caltrain do not hold trains for the final buzzer, so check the last departure before a late game. By car, 16th Street and Warriors Way close to through traffic around the arena before tip-off, and a weeknight game puts the drive in the evening commute.
Chase Center has two garages of its own, the Chase Center Garage and the Warriors Way Garage, and spaces in both are limited. Buy the pass ahead, either as a parking add-on with your Ticketmaster ticket or through SpotHero, and have the barcode out when you reach the attendant.
On game days Warriors Way and 16th Street run one way westbound toward the garage entrances, so come in off Terry A. Francois Boulevard and take the lane your pass names. Lyft has a dedicated drop-off and pick-up zone at Warriors Way and Terry A. Francois Boulevard, and the taxi stand is on southbound Terry A. Francois. The bike valet on 16th Street is free.
About 90 minutes before tip-off
Doors open at Chase Center
That is the earliest you can get in. Check the Chase Center A–Z guide for your game.
Bag rules are the arena's own here and they run from a wallet-sized clutch to a bag that fits under your seat. Getting it wrong usually means walking back to the car and re-entering the line. Check the arena's page for current sizes rather than a size you remember.
Doors open 90 minutes before tip-off, which the arena states as its rule for Warriors and Valkyries games. Everyone walks through a metal detector. Bags can be up to 14 by 14 by 6 inches and do not have to be clear. A bag smaller than 10 by 6 by 2 inches can go in at any entrance, and anything bigger has to use the x-ray lanes.
Backpacks are not allowed apart from single-compartment drawstring bags and backpack-style purses. Bag check is outside the east side of the arena at 16th Street and Terry A. Francois Boulevard and costs a small donation. No outside food or drink, water included. There is no re-entry.
Doors, lots and bag rules change; the official site is the live source.
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Doors open about 90 minutes before tip-off here; that is when the crowd starts arriving, not when you have to. Being through the doors about half an hour before tip-off covers screening, the walk to your section, and a stop on the concourse.
Work backward from tip-off: minutes in your seat beforehand, walk to your section, security screening, walk from the lot, parking, then the drive (20 minutes in the default plan). That puts leave-by at 5:50 PM for a 7:00 PM tip-off. Change the tip-off time and every row moves.
It is whatever the team has scheduled, and these are local times rather than a converted national window. On this arena's clock: a weekend matinee tips off at 2:30 PM, an early-evening game at 5:30 PM, a night game at 7:00 PM, a later start at 8:00 PM. This example uses the night game window. Cup games, holiday afternoons and nationally televised nights run their own times; the tip-off row is editable for those.
The plan allows 12 minutes for a normal walk-through queue. It runs longer in the twenty minutes before tip-off. Arriving fifteen minutes off that peak is usually enough.
About 90 minutes before tip-off here. Check the Chase Center A–Z guide for your game.
Not in the lots here. If you are meeting people somewhere else, add that as a step and everything before it moves earlier.
Assume the limit is small. Check the arena's own page for current sizes. The timing risk is being turned around at the door and walking back to the car: the walk twice and a second trip through the queue.
Flying in? The airport pages. Taking Amtrak? The station pages. No stadium listed? The tailgate timeline is the same plan without a particular lot.
Ready Time keeps the plan and subtracts again when the tip-off changes. Put in next week's game and the same steps land on new times, with an alert on each one.
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Each step gets its own alert, so you know what's next and how long you have.
Start the plan in the app, and the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show the time left, with a bar that fills as each step passes.
Glance at it on the walk in without opening the app.
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