This one is for Oakland

Tonight, the Warriors will ring in the new season with a celebration of their third title in four years.

And in eight months, almost to the day, The Golden State Warriors will play their last game in Oakland.

Their move to the Chase Center – what’s meant to be the pinnacle of sporting venues, a visual manifestation of Joe Lacob’s “Light Years” mentality and the Bay Area’s fixation for gentrification – will usher in a new era of basketball in the Bay, right in its epicenter.

But the move also leaves behind a history – often torrid, recently historic, always exciting – in Oakland.

And while they’ve given The Town a lot to be grateful for in the past four years, the Warriors successes this season will be the longest lasting in the minds of the fans of Oakland.

Because it will be the last.

But it will be full of distractions.

Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson’s pending free agency decisions next summer have already been a bigger point of discussion than this season. Maybe because it’s already a forgone conclusion that the Dubs will complete the vaunted three-peat, and the world is gleefully looking ahead to the Empire’s possible demise.

LeBron joining the Lakers, OKC and Houston re-upping their talented units and Boston Celtics creating their own juggernaut to take hold of the East will stand in the way.

But just as was the cast each of the last four years, the only team that stands in the Warriors way is themselves.

But Oakland and its collective need a going-out party worthy of its passion and dedication.

And that has just as much to do with the Raiders and Athletics and a repeated history of being a second choice.

The Raiders are skipping town this summer for the glitz and glamor of the Las Vegas Strip, and doing so with a belly-flop of a final routine, likely fighting off a lawsuit from the Oakland City Council and blessing The Coliseum with a 1-5 start after trading away Khalil Mack in an erroneous preseason move.

The Athletics, who haven’t sniffed a championship since 1990, are always scrappy but never truly contenders, in the same perpetual state of limbo that plagued the pre-Lacob and Guber Warriors; and soon, they will be Oakland’s lone stalwart.

The Warriors may call themselves California’s team, they may be moving to the city by the Bay, but they are Oakland’s team.

So this year, more than maybe any before, they need to give Oakland the season it deserves.

Because it’s the one the Town will remember.