60 Fun Facts About Golden State Warriors

In which city were the Warriors founded in 1946?

They won the BAA's first championship there and stayed until Franklin Mieuli moved them west in 1962.

What is the name of the San Francisco arena the Warriors have played in since 2019?

It sits in Mission Bay after an earlier plan for Piers 30 and 32 met with vocal opposition.

In which year did the franchise change its geographic name from San Francisco to Golden State?

The name was meant to suggest the team represented all of California; almost all home games moved to Oakland that season.

Which early star led the Warriors to the BAA's inaugural championship in 1946–47?

They beat the Chicago Stags four games to one, and the NBA counts it as its own first title.

Which team did the Warriors beat four games to one to win the 1956 championship?

Paul Arizin, Tom Gola and Neil Johnston were the stars of that Philadelphia team.

In which Pennsylvania town did Wilt Chamberlain score 100 points for the Warriors on March 2, 1962?

It was a 'home' game on a neutral court against the New York Knicks.

Which team received Wilt Chamberlain when the Warriors traded him in January 1965?

Golden State got three players and $150,000 and finished 17–63; Wilt then beat them in the 1967 Finals.

Which owner bought the Warriors in 1962 and moved them to San Francisco?

The team played most of its early Bay Area games at the Cow Palace in Daly City.

Which 1965 draft pick won Rookie of the Year and later Finals MVP with the Warriors, with an ABA stint between?

He sat out 1967–68 over unpaid bonuses, joined the Oakland Oaks, and returned in 1972.

Which heavily favoured team did the Warriors sweep in the 1975 NBA Finals?

Al Attles coached the team, and Rick Barry was named Finals MVP.

Who coached the Warriors to the 1975 championship and won 557 games with the franchise?

He won 557 games as Warriors head coach and later moved into the front office as general manager.

In 1980 the Warriors traded Robert Parish and the McHale pick for the pick used on which centre?

The deal handed the Celtics two Hall of Fame frontcourt players.

Which Warriors guard set playoff records with 29 points in a quarter against the Lakers in 1987?

He finished with 51 in a game still shown in the NBA's Greatest Games series.

The 'Run TMC' trio of the early 1990s consisted of Tim Hardaway, Chris Mullin and which guard?

The nickname riffed on Run-D.M.C.; the trio lasted only two seasons before Richmond went to Sacramento for Billy Owens.

Which player did the Warriors take first overall in 1995, the season Chris Cohan took over as owner?

Cohan's turbulent 16-year tenure produced one playoff appearance.

Which coach did Latrell Sprewell choke at a practice in December 1997, earning a season-long suspension?

The newspaper headline read 'WARRIORS HIT ROCK BOTTOM'; Sprewell was dealt to the Knicks in 1999.

Which centre did the Warriors draft in 1996 over Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash and Jermaine O'Neal?

The next year they took Adonal Foyle while Tracy McGrady was still available.

What became the Warriors' slogan during their late-2007 surge to the playoffs?

They went 16–5 down the stretch under Don Nelson after starting 26–35.

Which top seed did the eighth-seed Warriors upset in 2007, a first in a seven-game series?

Baron Davis led the way; Golden State had swept the regular-season series too.

What was the Warriors' 2007–08 record, the best ever for a team that missed a 16-team playoff?

Every Western playoff team won 50 games that season, leaving Golden State two games short.

Monta Ellis was suspended for 30 games in 2008 after injuring himself doing what?

The vehicle violated the terms of his contract.

With which pick did the Warriors select Stephen Curry from Davidson in the 2009 draft?

He finished second in Rookie of the Year voting to Tyreke Evans.

For what then-record price did Joe Lacob and Peter Guber buy the Warriors from Chris Cohan in 2010?

The 19-person group included Chamath Palihapitiya, whose 2022 comments about Uyghurs the team disowned.

Which Harvard guard signed with the Warriors in 2010, the first Taiwanese-American in the NBA?

'Linsanity' erupted two years later with the Knicks.

Draymond Green was drafted with a 2012 second-round pick the Warriors acquired in a trade for which forward?

Green went 35th overall; Harrison Barnes and Festus Ezeli came in the same draft.

With which pick did the Warriors take Klay Thompson in 2011?

He and Curry were dubbed the 'Splash Brothers' by team employee Brian Witt.

How big was the 'risky' rookie-scale extension Stephen Curry signed in 2012?

His injury history made writers nervous, but the cheap deal freed money to keep the core together.

What was the rallying cry of the 2012–13 Warriors, echoing the slogan of the 2007 team?

They made the playoffs for the first time since 2007 and beat Denver in six.

Which team employee coined the nickname 'Splash Brothers' for Curry and Thompson?

Their 483 threes in 2012–13 broke the duo record of 435 held by Nick Anderson and Dennis Scott.

Whom did the Warriors hire in May 2014 to replace Mark Jackson, in his first head-coaching job?

He was a five-time champion as a player and the NBA's career three-point accuracy leader at .454.

Stephen Curry's 2015 MVP made him the first Warrior to win the award since whom?

Chamberlain and Curry remain the only Warriors ever to win league MVP.

Who won Finals MVP in 2015 after being inserted into the starting lineup for Game 4?

His promotion over Andrew Bogut created the 'Death Lineup'; Kerr became the first rookie coach to win a title since Pat Riley.

How many points did Klay Thompson score in one quarter against Sacramento in January 2015?

He hit all 13 of his shots in that third quarter, including nine threes.

How many games did the Warriors win to open the 2015–16 season, the best start in NBA history?

The streak broke a 131-year-old mark set by the 1884 St. Louis Maroons baseball team.

How many three-pointers did Stephen Curry make in 2015–16, obliterating his own single-season record?

He also won MVP by unanimous vote, the first ever, with all 131 first-place votes.

What record did the Warriors' 2015–16 team set with its 73–9 mark?

They then became the first team to lose a Finals after leading 3–1.

How many consecutive regular-season home games did the Warriors win between January 2015 and March 2016?

The previous record of 44 belonged to Michael Jordan's 1995–96 Bulls.

Klay Thompson became the first to score 60 points in under 30 minutes in a 2016 game against which team?

He scored 60 in 29 minutes of a 142–106 rout.

Draymond Green's 2017 triple-double was the NBA's first without double figures in which category?

He had 12 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 steals but only four points.

What was the Warriors' 2017 playoff record, the best winning percentage in NBA history?

They started 12–0 before losing Game 4 of the Finals in Cleveland.

The 2018 Warriors–Cavaliers series marked the first time in NBA history that the same two teams met in the Finals for how many straight years?

Golden State swept it, the first Finals sweep since 2007.

Which team beat the Warriors in the 2019 Finals, where Durant tore his Achilles and Thompson his ACL?

Durant then left for Brooklyn in a sign-and-trade that brought D'Angelo Russell.

Whom did the Warriors receive from Minnesota in the 2020 trade of D'Angelo Russell?

The deal also brought the pick that became Jonathan Kuminga.

Whom did the Warriors select second overall in the 2020 draft?

The Memphis centre lasted only two and a half seasons in Golden State.

Which team did the Warriors beat in the 2022 NBA Finals?

Curry, Thompson, Green and Iguodala each won a fourth ring.

The Warriors' 2023 first-round win over Sacramento was marked by what incident?

Green was suspended for Game 3; Golden State won in seven and Game 7 drew 11.9 million viewers.

The Warriors' classic 'The City' uniform features a cable car and a silhouette of which landmark?

The 2010 modern version swapped in the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge.

The Warriors' 1997–2010 navy, gold and orange identity was built around which motif?

The alternate 'Thunder' logo sat on the right leg of the shorts.

The Warriors' 'The Town' uniforms honour which city?

They incorporate the city's oak tree logo; the Warriors played 47 seasons there.

The nickname 'Dubs' is a shortening of what?

Curry and Thompson are widely considered one of the greatest backcourts of all time.

Where did the Warriors play their 1996–97 home games while their East Bay home was being renovated?

They went 30–52 that season and traded Chris Mullin to Indiana afterwards.

Which cryptocurrency exchange, later bankrupt, paid the Warriors as spokespersons in 2021?

The team faces a class-action suit over promoting unregistered securities.

The Warriors rank third in NBA championships behind which two franchises?

Their seven titles span 1947, 1956, 1975, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2022.

Which two players are the only Warriors ever to win the league MVP award?

Chamberlain won it in 1960 and Curry in 2015 and 2016.

Original owner Peter A. Tyrrell also owned which American Hockey League club?

Tyrrell hired local basketball promoter Eddie Gottlieb as the team's first head coach and general manager.

The name was borrowed from an earlier Philadelphia Warriors team of 1925 that played in which circuit?

The franchise itself was a charter member of the Basketball Association of America when it formed in 1946.

After leaving the Cow Palace, where did the Warriors play home games from 1964 to 1966?

They also often used the University of San Francisco's War Memorial Gymnasium and occasionally Oakland and San Jose.

Which team did Kevin Durant leave to sign with the Warriors on July 4, 2016?

Oddsmakers immediately made the Warriors prohibitive favourites for the 2017 title, which they duly won.

Which forward did the Warriors select seventh overall from the G League Ignite in the 2021 draft?

That pick came from Minnesota via the D'Angelo Russell trade; Golden State took Arkansas guard Moses Moody at No. 14.

The 2021–22 Warriors Origins jersey modernised the road uniform from which season?

That was the franchise's last season in Philadelphia and the year Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a game.