Golden State Warriors

The currently Bay Area based team history began in 1946 in Philadelphia, but after 16 years they moved to San Francisco and were initially named San Francisco Warriors until 1971 when their name changed again to the current Golden State Warriors. The franchise has currently won five NBA championships, in 1956, 1975, 2015, 2017 and 2018 and is on pace to win its sixth in 2019. They got some hall of famers that are worth to be mentioned in this article, players such as Nate Thurmond, who is known as one of the best rebounders in NBA history, averaged 17,4 PPG, 16,9 RPG and 2,7 APG for the Warriors. As an interesting fact, in the 1967-68 season, he joined Chamberlain, Bob Pettit and Jerry Lucas as the only players to average at least 20 points and 20 rebounds in a single season. Tim Hardaway, a sharpshooter who played for them seven years, between 1989 and 1996, was a multiple All-Star while playing there. Chris Mullin is another hall of famer that spent more than a decade with the Golden State Warriors, a period in which he had 20,1 PPG, 4,4 RPG and 3,9 APG, and he was the main guy for them for many years. Another old-school player that was a piece of history for the club is Rick Barry, who is famous for his underhand free-throws shooting style, but not only for that, as he won a championship as a Golden State member in 1975, and averaged 25,6 PPG, 7,3 RPG and 5,1 APG throughout his years spent in the Bay Area. Another “monster” that went South-West was none other than one of the most famous basketball players to step on a court, Wilt Chamberlain, who only played 5 and a half seasons with the Warriors, but he got so many individual records during that span, that no other Warrior in history could have matched them. He scored 100 points in a single game back in 1962 while they were still Philadelphia Warriors. Chamberlain is one of the most dominating players in the history of the game, if not the most, given the fact that, while playing for the Warriors, he averaged 41,5 PPG, 25,1 RPG and 3 APG. The old-school players of the Warriors are definitely some very respected names throughout the years by people around the league, but the “real deal” was only about to begin when they first drafted Stephen Curry in 2009, followed up by Klay Thompson in 2011 and Draymond Green in 2012. Together they managed to win 1 title, while losing one, that infamous Finals against LeBron’s Cavs being up 3-1. In that season, they set a new record, beating Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls one, by winning 73 games in the regular season, and everybody said that that team may be the best in the history of the game. But, not a single human being on this planet, except Kevin Durant, expected that trade to happen in the summer of 2016. With that addition, the Warriors won 2 titles in a row and they cemented themselves as the best team in all of basketball history.

Andrei Dilean , info@brainbasketball.net

Golden State Warriors