OAKLAND, California — When the Golden State Warriors take on the Houston Rockets in Game 3 of their Western Conference Finals series on Saturday at 9 p.m. ET, a 105-year-old woman whose family simply calls her "Sweetie" will be watching. She'll be in her usual seat, on the edge of her bed in the Bay Area home where she still lives alone and independent — or as she says, where "I still live for myself and do for myself."

Sweetie stations herself there for Warriors games because she likes to be alone and free to yell at the TV as loudly as she wants. Her cat, Coco Chanel, will sit beside her, as always, but doesn't mind the hubbub. Coco Chanel, it seems, is used to some noise when it comes to Sweetie's Warriors.

"Every time I holler at the team, she just looks up at me," Sweetie, still sprightly and spunky well over a century after her birth, told Mashable on a recent afternoon while wearing a bright yellow Warriors shirt. "And I holler at them a lot. I tell them: 'Go get that ball!'"

The 2014-15 NBA season has been a truly magical one for Warriors fans, with the historically dreadful franchise racking up the league's best regular-season record in joyous fashion to become championship favorites.

"Dub Nation," as Warriors fans are called, has been reveling in the abundance of wins, three-pointers and alley-oop dunks. Golden State fans are renowned across the NBA for their passion and dedication, but Sweetie may well be Dub Nation's queen. There is no doubt she's its elder stateswoman.

"I think it's a very special season, because they're young and they've got a lot of play in them if they don't get the swellhead," Sweetie said of the Warriors' current campaign.

But that's not all Sweetie has to say about the team — not by a long shot.

A witness to history

The road here has been a long one for Sweetie (no surprise when discussing a 105-year-old), whose full name we've agreed not to use because she still lives alone. Sweetie was born in 1909 in Ennis, Texas, growing up in the small town outside of Dallas along with nine sisters. Her father looked out for all of them.

"Everybody knew Frank Henry," she said of her dad. "Everybody knew you don't bother Frank Henry's girls."

When Sweetie was about 10, her family became the first African-American one in town to get electricity. She's lived through two world wars, and she played high school basketball in the late 1920s, about 30 years after James Naismith invented the game and 20 years before the NBA was founded.

Sweetie graduated from college in 1932, before the repeal of Prohibition. She walked across the Bay Bridge on its opening day in 1936, the same year she moved from Texas to Oakland. She was already in her 50s during the Civil Rights movement's Selma-to-Montgomery marches, then lived to see America elect its first black president in 2008. Today, Sweetie has two living children (a third passed away in 1980), along with 4 grandkids, 8 great-grandkids and 7 great-great grandkids.

The secret to her longevity? Sweetie can't say for sure.

Sweetie back in 1927. Image: Courtesy of Lily Toney

"I just ate proper and did what I was supposed to do," she said. "You know what I think? When you come into this world, the Lord knows how long you're gonna live and, when your time is up, you go. There's no extensions."

Whatever her secret, here's Sweetie today, ten decades into life, still spunky and catching every game, while rooting for the Golden State Warriors to win their first NBA title since 1975.

Sweetie wasn't really around for that championship, however, so she's hoping 2015 brings her first as a fan.

Sweetie and her husband Clifford moved into the East Bay home she still lives in with Coco Chanel back in 1956, but they didn't become Warriors fans in earnest until the early 1990s. They'd watch games together at home, and sometimes go to the Oakland Coliseum together to catch the team in person.

After Clifford died in 1999, Sweetie's fandom ratcheted up, according to the couple's daughter Lily Toney.

"It seems she's more dedicated now that my father is passed away," Toney said. "When he was alive, they might go to dinner then come back and watch the rest of the game. But now she's right there — she won't eat until the game is over because she doesn't want to miss anything."

Even so, to this day, watching the games brings up recollections of her late husband.

"The memory comes back," Sweetie said. "It can't go away if the person is nice. It stays there. My husband was the dearest and the nicest. I miss him so much."

This year's Warriors squad, however, has been creating memories of a different sort.

Sweetie's advice for the Warriors

Golden State routed its way to a 67-15 regular-season record this year, among the best marks in NBA history. Point guard Stephen Curry earned league MVP honors, while routinely making jaw-dropping plays that go viral on Vine. Here's Sweetie on Curry:

But her favorite player? That would be third-year forward Draymond Green. The fiery, emotional leader has become the soul of this year's Warriors squad, while vastly outplaying anyone's expectations for him when he was a second-round draft pick out of Michigan State.

"He came a long ways, you know what I mean?" Sweetie said. "I like Green's style."

Still, she does have one mild fear for both Curry and Green.

"I just pray that neither one of them will get the swellhead," she said. "Because that can happen. Anything is possible when you throw that money in front of their face."

It's a far cry from what the game used to be, as Sweetie recalls with a laugh.

"It used to be — here I go — it used to be where it was a game and you enjoyed it, but now it's a whole lifestyle where everyone wants to outdo each other and that's very stupid," she said. "No, you do what you want to do. You live your life. You don't go trying to outdo Tom, Nick or Harry!"

Sweetie's 106th birthday is on June 12, which falls smack-dab in the middle of the NBA Finals — one she fully expects the Warriors to win.

"I want them to win when I can see it!" she said. "And they're gonna win. Oh, yes. Oh, yes."

But Sweetie does have one piece of advice for a Warriors team that, for all its offensive sizzle, can be a bit turnover-prone.

"Don't be sloppy with that ball!" she said with gusto. "Don't get that ball, and think somebody else won't steal it."

Take note, Green, Curry and company. Sweetie's watching — and she wants her title.