Warriors icon Al Attles, 82, feeling well enough to attend an NBA Finals game at Oracle

We interrupt this get-away Friday for an unexpected and heartening addition to the Warriors injury list:

Al Attles, probable.

Marc J. Spears of the Undefeated is reporting that Attles, Warriors icon and newly minted Hall of Famer, intends on attending an upcoming NBA Finals game at Oracle Arena.

“My goal was to get to at least one game and not be in a wheelchair,” the 82-year-old Attles told Spears on Monday. “A cane will work. I am looking forward to coming out. I am hoping that the team can raise another banner in Oakland.”

Attles was drafted by the then-Philadelphia Warriors in 1960. He was so certain he wouldn’t make the roster that he reported to training camp with one week’s worth of clothing. Fifty-nine years later …

Attles played for the Warriors for 11 years, earning the nickname The Destroyer. He coached the team — he was only the second African-American coach in the league — for 14 seasons, leading it to an improbable NBA title in 1975. He has worked in the Warriors front office. He has been a community ambassador. He has always been a class act — and the coolest cat in the room. How cool? In the early 1970s, Attles single-handedly made the leisure suit a viable clothing option.

For all of the above he was voted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in April. He will be inducted Sept. 5 as a contributor.

The honor came at a good time for Attles, who has endured health scares/issues in recent months.

Attles has had four surgeries in the past seven months, his son, Al Jr., told Spears. He hasn’t attended a game since October.

“I feel much better now,” Al Jr. said. “I was worried about how he is going to bounce back, why it’s taking so long, why doesn’t he have an appetite. He lost so much weight, 50 to 75 pounds.”

Here’s hoping The Destroyer makes it to Oracle, and onto the arena’s video boards. It’s going to be a must-hear moment.