Golden State WarriorsAmerican Professional basketball team based in San Francisco west Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Warriors won six NBA championships and a basketball association America (BAA) Title.
The warriors were founded in 1946 and were originally based Philadelphia. One of the original BAA members, the team won the first league championship behind the game of Future Hall of Fame Award Joe Fulks, the first BAA leader. The Warriors lost in the BAA final the following season, and in 1949, the team became part of the NBA when the BAA merged with the National Basketball League (NBL). The Warriors finished more than fourth place in their division only once during their first six seasons in the new league. In 1955-1956, however, the Warriors, directed by the front Paul Arizin and Center Neil Johnston, published the best record in the League and won his first NBA title.
In 1959, Philadelphia added a local product Wilt Chamberlainwho would become one of the greatest players in the history of the NBA. While with the Warriors, he scored 100 NBA record points in a 1962 competition, in what would prove to be the last year of the team in Philadelphia. A group of Bay of San Francisco Investors in the region bought the franchise after the 1961–62 season and moved the team, which became known as San Francisco Warriors.
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The Warriors reached the NBA final in 1964 with a team dominated by Chamberlain and in 1967 with a team who was forward Rick Barrycenter Nate Thurmondand aircraft guard Jeff Mullins, to lose on every occasion. Barry, who had led the league by scoring in 1966-1967, became one of the first stars to leave the NBA for the upstart American basketball associationWhen he signed with the Oakland Oaks the following year.
Former warrior player Al ATTLES took over as a team-and-chief coach during the 1969-1970 season, and he directed the franchise for all or part of 14 seasons. In 1971, the franchise – which had experienced years of disappointing financial returns – settled through East Bay Oakland And changed his name to Golden State Warriors. In 1974-1975, the Warriors, led again by Barry (who had returned to the team in 1972), upset the favorites Washington balls In the NBA final, and Astles became the first full-time African-American head coach to win an NBA title (Bill Russell had previously won a championship as a player pilot). After returning to the playoffs in each of the following two years, the Warriors’ game level fell rushed, and they finished last in their division during the nine seasons between 1977 and 1978 and 1985-1986.
At the end of the 1980s, the Warriors became known for the head coach Don nelson‘s features Up-tempo style, which was based on smaller players and the emphasis on the notation on defense. This era is better personified by the teams of 1989-1990 and 1990-1991 who were nicknamed “Run TMC” (a reference to the rap group Run DMC) for the names of the high leader trio Tim Hardawayfiring guard Mitch Richmond and Small striker Chris Mullin. While the Nelson teams were entertaining, they failed to pass beyond the second round in the playoffs during this period, and Nelson left the Warriors during the 1994-1995 season. Golden Then, he entered a period that saw them after the last and second place finishes each season, but one from 1994 to 1995 to 2005-2006. Nelson returned to the Warriors in 2006-2007, and the team made its first trip to the playoffs in 13 years that season. The Warriors then made the history of the NBA by becoming the first team of eighth seeded (the lowest) to defeat a seeded team in a series of seven games in playoffs by eliminating the Dallas Mavericks In the first round of the playoffs. Golden State followed this remarkable campaign by missing the playoffs in three consecutive seasons, and Nelson was forced to resign in 2010.
Led by Young Star Guard Stephen CurryThe Warriors returned to the playoffs in 2012-2013. The team called on a new head coach, Steve KerrBefore the 2014-2015 season, and the Warriors quickly turned into a mastodonAccumulating a 67 victories franchise record this season – equality for the fourth victory in the history of the League at the time – and going to the NBA final for the first time in 40 years. There Golden State fought a surprisingly strong challenge of LeBron James and the heavy oppressed Cleveland riders To win the NBA title in a series of six games. The following season, 2015-2016, saw the Warriors make the history of the NBA by winning 73 amazing games at only 9 defeats during the regular season, breaking the previous record of 72 victories which had been set by the 1995-1996 Chicago Bulls. The Warriors were faced with a relative struggle in the western conference elimination series, losing at least one match in each series – which included Golden State surmounting a deficit in the 3-1 series at the Oklahoma City Thunder In the conference finals – I am on the way to the return to the NBA final. There, the Warriors were at the other end of a return of the 3-1 series, like the Cleveland Riders Faired their way to three consecutive victories to win the revenge match of the team final.
In the following off -season, the warriors added the striker of the free agent superstar Kevin during to their record list. While Golden State lost six victories in less of its total of the previous season in 2016-2017, the team again made history in the playoff series by establishing a record of the NBA for most of the consecutive victories to open the playoffs (12) while sweeping three consecutive series on the way to a third championship of the consecutive Western conference. The Warriors behaved again on the riders in the NBA final – which was the first time that two teams met in three series of consecutive championships in the history of the League – and continued their domination by losing only once against Cleveland on the way to another title of the NBA, establishing this Warriors team as one of the best time.
In 2017-2018, the injuries and the team’s lack of emergency to spend maximum effort during the regular season led to a season of 58 victories. However, the Warriors have once again intensified in the playoff series, winning the fourth consecutive title of the consecutive conference to create another NBA final match against Cleveland, which ended with a dominant scanning of four Golden State matches.
The Warriors won 57 games in 2018-2019, the least in the Kerr era at this point, but nevertheless displayed the best record of the West Conference. Golden State then lost four games in total during the Conference qualifiers to get a place in the final and become the first team in the NBA history to win five consecutive conference titles. (The 10 consecutive appearances of the NBA than the Boston Celtics Made from 1956 to 1957 to 1965-1966 took place before the league had conferences.) However, the finals were a disaster for the Warriors in more than one title. Not only was the team upset by the Raptors of Toronto In six games to refuse another Golden State title, but the two Kevin during (Torn Achilles tendon) and stars wing Klay Thompson (torn anterior torn ligament) has undergone injuries which generally take about a year to recover, by putting the future of the Warriors dynasty in doubt.
In 2019, the Warriors returned to San Francisco after 48 years in Oakland, moving into an advanced arena on the city’s seafront. The new start applied to the team itself, while during the left for the Brooklyn Nets During the offseason and Golden State entered the 2019-2020 season without two of its best players from the previous year. Curry then limited itself to appearing in five games due to a broken hand, and the exhausted The list of Warriors had a hard time in the worst record (15-50) of the league during COVID 19-Due returned season. Thompson tore his Achilles tendon before the 2020-20121 season, but the team completely handed over the curry and posted a victory record that year. The Warriors finally recovered Thompson for the 2021-222 campaign, and Golden State equaled to the third best regular NBA season record (53-29). The vast experience in the team’s playoffs borne fruit in the playoffs while the Warriors have methodically exceeded their four relatively holy opponents, losing only six games throughout the season to win a fourth title of the NBA in eight seasons.
During the following seasons, the Warriors experienced the frustrations and disappointments of a former declining team. They made the playoffs in 2022-2023 but lost in the second round-the first release in the team’s playoffs since Kerr had taken over in 2014. During the 2023-24 season, the defensive Warriors of the defensive anchor Draymond Green was suspended twice, once for putting an opposing player in a starter and the other time to hit an opponent on the face. Although Curry continued to occur at a level of the stars, in the midst of the disturbances caused by the conduct of Green, the team ended last in its division and missed the playoffs.
