“They can spin it any way they want, wrap it in any wrapping paper they want, but when there has been an intimate relationship for years, and then you move, it changes everything,” said Paul Brekke-Miesner, the author of “Home Field Advantage: Oakland, CA — The City That Changed the Face of Sports” and a lifelong Oakland resident.

“Ten miles, 20 miles — the bay might as well be 1,000 miles.”

Can something move and remain the same? Can anything be replanted without changing the landscape?

No place tries like California, a mind-set as much as a place. California always leans toward reinvention. It is closer to the future than anywhere else. Nothing feels permanent, even without earthquakes and fires. So it is with the Warriors.

It is so California to come up with something cool and coveted, and at its peak try to lift it to something bigger and better, risking all that made it cool in the first place.

It is why In-N-Out Burger expanded to Texas, why Levi’s made Dockers, why skateboarding is joining the Olympics.

Will Apple, with origins in a suburban garage, ever be as loved as it was before it grew big enough to build a $5 billion headquarters that looks like a spaceship? Will the San Francisco skyline ever be as beautiful as it was before the Salesforce Tower rose like a middle finger to the city’s low-slung aesthetic, amid a rising fist of preening (and leaning) towers?