OAKLAND — The Golden State Warriors, besides putting on a show as they again dominate their NBA opponents on hardwood floors from coast to coast this season, are winning some hearts at home, too, helping out through their community foundation and inviting young fans into their inner circle, at least for a visit.

Recent beneficiaries of the Warriors largess have included McClymonds High athlete Darryl Aikens, who is fighting cancer.

And, out of East Oakland, the Scraper Bike Team members caught guard Shaun Livingston’s eye with their innovative and colorful two- and three-wheel rides.

Aikens, 18, is a patient at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, where Warrior Klay Thompson paid a visit a few days before Christmas.

“The first bedside he visited was Darryl’s. Klay developed an instant connection with him and his entire family, and wanted to stay in touch,” a Warriors spokesman told the Tribune.

So Aikens, 18, got an invitation to the team’s practice facility at 1011 Broadway, where on Dec. 29 he watched Stephen Curry drain three-pointers, one after another.

He met Curry, Kevin Durant and others, got new sneakers, autographs, some photos, embraces and much respect.

Durant came away impressed by Aikens, “a warrior of a man,” in the words of one of his Kaiser nurses. A crowd-funding site for Team Darryl at press time had $3,752 from 73 contributions toward its $10,000 goal.

To donate, go to http://www.gofundme.com/femnus.

The team invited Aikens and his friends and family, seven strong, to the game against the Bulls the next night, said Todd Walker, Aikens’ Pop Warner coach. Walker said that Aikens has been released from the hospital and is staying with his mother in Antioch, with hospice workers visiting.

“You’d never know that he was ill, he’s so upbeat. We just laugh. That’s how he wants it to be,” Walker said.

The Scraper Bike Team, East Oakland’s high-style bike crew, rolls up to events around the city on colorfully decorated bicycles and tricycles, with boom boxes blaring and rope-light strings blazing. A dozen team members were guests of the Warriors earlier in the month, when the Knicks were in town.

“Most of ’em ain’t never been to a Warriors game,” said Rb Burnette, a team leader.

But Scraper Bikes Team founder Tyrone “Baybe Champ” Stevenson has a three-wheeler sporting Warriors colors, and the team also sports a couple more bicycles that Burnette said are similarly decorated.

“We didn’t get to ride to the game like we intended, ’cause we got rained out,” Burnette said.

But the team still brought two bikes along to show off, including one painted blue and gold, Warriors style, along with silver and black tape over the spokes.

Scraper Bikes have a headquarters at the Shed, a donated shipping container behind the Martin Luther King Jr. library branch at 6833 International Blvd., after getting started at the 81st Street branch, where Burnette works.

Kids who keep their grades up in school can join. Youngsters get free workshops in designing and building their own bikes.

Imitators extend beyond U.S. borders, and a song celebrating scraper bikes has more than a million YouTube hits.

Scraper Bike Team members were featured in a video commercial for Beats by Dre that featured Warriors player Draymond Green.

“I guess the whole team seen it,” Burnette said, and Livingston, who told the Scrapers he bicycles to the arena from Lake Merritt, got things rolling to get the group to the game.

“They treated us like VIPs; it was fantastic! I’m looking forward to seeing them at the Shed. He said he would visit; I’m holding him to his word,” Stevenson said of Livingston.

Burnette said Livingston also promised to join them for rides in the off-season.

But they did not wait for Livingston on Christmas Eve, though, when the team embarked on its third “Grinch Who Stole the Bike” ride.

After Bike East Bay volunteers helped install donated front and back lights for those who needed them, the team rode up from the Shed to the holiday lights-illuminated Picardy Lane off Seminary Avenue, then down to Alameda’s Christmas Tree Lane and back to the Shed.

Burnette said the ride helped highlight the lack of bike lanes in East Oakland. “We really need helmets,” he said. “I’m teaching them bike safety, but kids are still kids.”

Just after Christmas, at Beebe Memorial Cathedral on Telegraph Avenue, about 1,200 families showed up to meet Curry and his family and pick up boxes of goodies.

Along with books and stuffed animals for the kids, the families each got a box containing food and personal-care items such as shampoo and toothpaste and a chance to meet the two-time league most valuable player.

Although this was the fourth year that Curry came out for the giveaway set up by the Warriors Community Fund and Feed the Children, an international anti-hunger organization, this year’s was the biggest one yet, the Warriors said.

Contact Mark Hedin at 510 293-2542, 408-759-2132 or mhedin@bayareanewsgroup.com.