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Top 10 Facts about the Golden States Warriors

The Golden State Warriors are a San Francisco-based American professional basketball team. The Warriors are a part of the National Basketball Association (NBA) Western’s Conference Pacific Division. They have created a consistent launching platform for themselves via rigorous training in their locker room by making the correct moves at the right time, and have put themselves in a position to be top contenders for the Championship for many seasons to come.

Any player would jump at the chance to be a part of the playing environment and culture that GSW has established. The allure of playing with the greatest in the NBA and a strong likelihood of winning the championship is enough to convince many to jump ship and shake hands with Golden State’s head staff. But there’s more to the defending NBA champions than has met the eye. Here are the top 10 facts about the Golden State Warriors.

1. The club was founded in 1946 in Philadelphia

The Warriors began as the Philadelphia Warriors, a pioneer member of the Basketball Association of America, in 1946. They were owned by Peter A. Tyrrell, who also controlled the American Hockey League’s Philadelphia Rockets. Eddie Gottlieb, a long-time basketball promoter in the Philadelphia region, was hired as a coach and general manager by Tyrrell.

2. The Warriors have had three different names during their existence

A San Francisco Warriors intra-squad exhibition game at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California on October 17, 1962 photo sourced from

Depending on where they were, the Warriors have gone by three distinct names throughout the franchise. The Philadelphia Warriors were the original, followed by the San Francisco Warriors, and then the Golden State Warriors in 1971. The squad effectively represented the entirety of California in this fashion.

Before the 1971鈥�72 season, the club chose the name Golden State Warriors as a way to imply that they represented the whole state of California. The majority of the team’s home games that season were played in Oakland; six were played in San Diego, while none were played in San Francisco or Daly City.

3. The Warriors play their home games at the Chase Center

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The Golden State Warriors have been everywhere, from Philadelphia to San Francisco to Oakland and right now back to San Francisco. The Warriors were established in Philadelphia in 1946, but they moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1962. They moved into the renowned Oracle Arena otherwise known as Oakland Arena less than ten years later.

The Warriors remained in the nostalgic home for 48 years, but in 2019 things changed. When Chase Center, the Dubs’ new home, opened on September 6, 2019, their plans underwent a shift. Chase Center features fewer seats than Oracle, holding 18,064 spectators for the Warriors and the University of San Francisco Dons men’s basketball team.

4. They won the first BAA championship in 1947

The squad, led by early scoring Phenom Joe Fulks, won the league’s inaugural 1946-47 season by defeating the Chicago Stags four games to one. The NBA, which was formed by a merger in 1949, officially acknowledges that as its inaugural championship. Gottlieb purchased the team in 1951.

In the 1955-56 season, the Warriors won their second championship in Philadelphia, defeating the Fort Wayne Pistons four games to one. Future Hall of Famers Paul Arizin, Tom Gola, and Neil Johnston were Warrior stars during this era.

5. The team once played at the Cow Palace because their Arena was booked

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Due to scheduling difficulties, Golden State was unable to play its home games in its normal facility in Oakland during the 1975 NBA Finals. During the 1975 Finals, the “home” games were held in the historic Cow Palace in Daly City, California. Furthermore, because the Cow Palace was unavailable over Memorial Day weekend, the Finals were played in a 1-2-2-1-1 format.

The Washington Bullets were offered the option of beginning at Golden State and then playing Games 2 and 3 at home, or opening at home and playing Games 2 and 3 on the road. The Bullets chose to start at home, but they wasted a 14-point lead and lost Game 1. The Warriors won Games 2 and 3 in Golden State before sweeping the Bullets in Landover, Maryland.

Another significant detail about the 1975 Finals was that it was the first time an NBA game was planned to be played in June (Game 7 was scheduled for Monday Night, June 2). In reality, it had to wait until the next year since the Warriors swept the Bullets in four games.

6. The Warriors have now won seven NBA championships

President Obama congratulated the Golden State Warriors, the 2015 NBA champions, at the White House. photo by White House –

The Warriors have now won seven NBA championships, with their most recent triumph coming in 2022. Only two teams in NBA history have won more titles than the Warriors, The Celtics and the Lakers. Golden State has made 11 NBA Finals appearances, trailing only Los Angeles (32) and Boston (31). The Warriors won the third seed in the Western Conference on April 10, 2022, and qualified for the playoffs for the first time since the 2018-19 season.

They defeated the Denver Nuggets in the first round and defeated the Memphis Grizzlies in the conference semi-finals. The Warriors progressed to their seventh NBA Finals on May 26, 2022, after beating the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference Finals, 4-1. The squad won its seventh NBA championship on June 16, 2022, defeating the Boston Celtics 4-2. Curry, Thompson, Green, and Iguodala each earned their fourth championship as Warriors players.

7. They hold the record for most wins in a season

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With 73 victories, the Golden State Warriors hold the NBA record for most victories in a season. The Warriors achieved this accomplishment in the 2015鈥�16 campaign, ending with a record of 73鈥�9 overall and a winning percentage of 0.890.

With 73 victories, they beat the previous mark held by the Chicago Bulls since the 1995鈥�96 season. The Bulls ended the season with a record of 72-10 and a winning percentage of 0.878. The only two teams to achieve 70+ victories in a season are the Warriors and the Bulls.

8. Warriors won three of the four NBA Finals they faced the Cavaliers

Although the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors have faced off against one another since the Cavaliers’ 1970 NBA entry, the two teams’ rivalry started to heat up in the 2014鈥�15 season when they faced off in the first of four straight NBA Finals.

No teams have previously played one another in more than two straight Finals. The Warriors have defeated the Cavaliers in three of the four NBA Finals; they lost in 2016 but triumphed in 2015, 2017 and 2018.

9. They have reached the NBA Finals six times in eight years

In the last eight years, the Golden State Warriors have reached the NBA Finals six times. They first faced and defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2015 NBA Finals. In 2016, the Warriors returned to the NBA Finals and faced the Cleveland Cavaliers, whom they had defeated in six games the year before, but they became the 11th team in NBA history to lose a 3-1 series lead and the first to do it in the NBA Finals.

With Durant on board, the Warriors would win back-to-back titles against the Cavaliers in 2017 and 2018 (including a sweeping of the Cavs in the latter), before succumbing in six games to the Toronto Raptors in 2019 due to injuries to Durant and Klay. Later, Durant joined the Brooklyn Nets after departing the Warriors. The following two seasons saw the Warriors miss the playoffs, but they made it back to the 2022 Finals and beat the Boston Celtics in six games.

10. The Warriors are nicknamed the “Dubs” as a shortening of “W’s”

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The Warriors are known as the “Dubs,” which is an abbreviation for “W’s.” People shortened Warriors to 鈥淲鈥檚鈥� and even shorter to 鈥淒ubs.鈥� It’s the same logic that underpins most nicknames, such as dubbing the Celtics “Celts” or “C’s.”

The Warriors don’t simply get the nickname “Dubs,” they earn it. With four titles and six Finals appearances since 2015, Golden State has amassed a plethora of victories.