SALINAS >> Big league dreams don’t always have a timetable.

So it is understandable if Brian Day is still letting what has transpired in his life sink in.

“I only wish my dad was still around to see this,” said an emotional Day recently.

The 1982 Salinas High graduate will be the public address announcer this coming year for the Golden State Warriors.

“It hasn’t sunk in,” Day said.

Day has spent the past 12 years as the public address announcer for the Santa Cruz Warriors, where he became a fan favorite with his personality on the mic.

Yet, last season when the Golden State Warriors were in need of a PA announcer for their final three games, Day received a call he will never forget from Executive Director of Game Experience Kevin Dhillon.

“I was asked ‘can you?’ — before he could finish the sentence I said ‘yes,’” Day said. “If it had anything to do with Golden State, I was on board.”

The 60-year-old Day was Golden State’s public address announcer for the final three games and would have been their PA guy had the Warriors advanced in the playoffs.

Over the summer he did six Summer League games at the Chase Center, still uncertain what his status was going forward.

“I knew I was just filling in last year,” Day said. “So I treated it like any job. I guess my audition was the three games and the summer league.”

That’s because there was no tryout like there was 12 years ago when Day beat out 86 potential candidates for the public address announcers job in Santa Cruz.

“I didn’t look at those three games like I’d get this gig,” said Day, who began his career doing football games at Salinas High in 2016. “But I didn’t do anything to screw it up.”Because Day wasn’t notified that he was being offered the job until recently, he had already signed on for a 13th season in Santa Cruz.

The plan is for Day is to do both this coming season, as only three games overlap over the course of a six-month NBA season.

“It’s 68 games,” Day said. “For me, it’s not a difficult drive. I go to the Bay Area a lot for business. Sometimes I’m in and out of San Francisco before the commute traffic even begins.”

A former radio station DJ, Day began doing public announcing for Salinas High for football and basketball games nearly two decades ago — and still occasionally makes a rare appearance.

In fact, he will be the PA announcer on Oct. 24 when Salinas hosts Arroyo Grande.

“Being a DJ was a total fluke,” Day said. “When I started doing games at Salinas, I had fun with it. I’ve always said I have a face for radio.”

In between moonlighting as a public address announcer in the NBA, Day is a sales manager for Blackthrone Spas in Salinas, where drives up to the Bay Area four times a week.

Getting the job in Santa Cruz in 2012 changed Day’s life. With his weight ballooning to nearly 500 pounds, he began making life changes.

“I have a 9-year-old grandson,” Day said. “The weight had crept up on me. I could hardly walk. It was time to get healthy. I had to make sacrifices, even to this day.”

Day, who stands a shade over 6 feet, has dropped over 200 pounds, with an emphasis on maintaining his health.

“I’ve been able to keep it all off for over a year,” Day said.

Day, who swam and played water polo and baseball at Salinas, had actually tried out for the same job with Golden State nearly five years ago — was even a finalist for the position.

“I didn’t do anything wrong,” recalled Day. “But I knew I didn’t nail it. So I worked on my craft much more. I’ve had aspirations of getting up there.”

Day won’t have the same freedoms that he has in the G-League with Santa Cruz. The NBA is more rigid in what it wants and doesn’t want from its public address announcers.

“When I came up to do my first game, they told me ‘you do some crazy things in Santa Cruz,’” Day said. “You get the crowd going. You won’t be doing that up here.”

One of the first people Day met when arriving last season was owner Joe Lacob. He has had interactions with Stephen Curry when he used to drive down to Santa Cruz to watch his brother play.

“I can tell you this, everyone I’ve met in this organization has been great,” Day said. “I couldn’t tell if they were having a good day or bad day. It’s a great environment.”

Day also met one of his childhood heroes in Rick Barry, who led the Warriors to their first title in 1974 in the Bay Area.

“I remember we talked about golf,” Day said. “Everyone in that organization is like regular people. There’s something special about working for a team you grew up rooting for.”

Arriving more than three hours before a game to go over his duties and put together a game plan has become a routine. The morning of games, there’s a sense of nervous energy.

“I get antsy,” Day said. “When I wake up in the morning, I’m ready to go. I’m usually done with my job by 2. There’s a lot of stuff to read during the game that I have to clean up.”

Among the things Day is looking forward to seeing is LeBron James clap his hands with powder before a game in front of him.

“I’m just watching guys play basketball,” Day said. “I have a little bit of an ego. You can’t be shy and be behind a microphone. There are only 30 of these jobs in the NBA. I will be the oldest rookie in the NBA.”