Golden State Warriors: A Brief History
They went on to be purchased by Franklin Mieuli, who transferred the team to San Francisco Bay. They took to their new city well, but found that like many teams before them, their hopes for an NBA championship were smashed by the Boston Celtics in the 1963-64 seasons at the end of an otherwise prosperous year for the Warriors. The next year, Wilt Chamberlain was traded in one of basketball's most lopsided trades to the Philadelphia 76ers.
After a tragic dry spell that lasted until the 1974-75 season, the Warriors finally won a remarkable upset against the Washington Bullets. The Warriors were considered such an underdog, that home games had to be played at the Cow Palace in Daly City, as the Coliseum Arena had scheduled events for the days the NBA playoffs were scheduled to occur. The championship was a lopsided four game shutout.
Following this, they decided to take the unique route of excluding the name of their city in their team name, a practice that remains unique to the Warriors in the NBA.
Aside from the championship, the 70's were an otherwise disappointing decade for the Warriors and their bad luck plagued them right into the 80's. In the 1993-94 seasons, following several unique tactical shifts by Coach Don Nelson, they were able to make it once more into the playoffs.
As schisms began to rise between team mates however, the quickly resurging Warriors found themselves hard placed as players turned on one another, or even faced suspensions, as was the case when Latrell Sprewell strangled Coach P.J. Carlesimo. The Warriors, although remaining a proud figure of central California, are a controversial team whose inherent talent is often inhibited by their on and off the court conflicts with one another.