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The '''Golden State Warriors''' are an American professional basketball team based in Oakland, California. The team is part of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA). They play their home games at Oracle Arena in Oakland.
Franchise history
Philadelphia Warriors
The Warriors were founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1946 as the '''Philadelphia Warriors,''' a charter member of the Basketball Association of America. They were owned by Peter Tyrrell, who also owned the Philadelphia Rockets of the American Hockey League.
Led by early scoring sensation Joe Fulks, they won the championship in the league's inaugural 1946?47 season by defeating the Chicago Stags, four games to one. (The BAA became the National Basketball Association in 1949.) Gottlieb bought the team in 1951.
The Warriors won their only other championship as a Philadelphia team in the 1955?56 season, defeating the Fort Wayne Pistons four games to one. The stars of this era in the team's history were Paul Arizin and Neil Johnston. In 1959, the team signed draft pick Wilt Chamberlain. Known as "Wilt the Stilt," Chamberlain quickly began shattering NBA scoring records and changed the style of play forever. On March 2, 1962, in a Warrior "home" game played on a neutral court in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Chamberlain scored 100 points against the New York Knicks, a single-game record that the NBA ranks among its finest moments.[, retrieved 5 Dec 2007]
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