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In Recess

Apr. 26, 2019

Chief Emcee

No stranger to hip hop, Warriors’ legal chief David Kelly has rapped for years as Capital D.

Chief Emcee
Golden State Warriors Chief Legal Officer David Kelly

Golden State Warriors Chief Legal Officer David Kelly was a shy kid.

"Not painfully shy," he clarified with a laugh. "But I wasn't a natural performer."

Kelly took the stage for the first time as an emcee in the late 1980s to compete in a battle of the bands contest held in the cafeteria of his Chicago high school. Grabbing the mic while his friend Tony Fields worked the turntables, Kelly wasn't...

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