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The team began in 1946 as the Philadelphia Warriors in the BAA, winning the first league championship in 1947. Following the merger of the BAA and NBL into the NBA (1950), the Warriors franchise relocated to San Francisco in 1962, and changed its name to Golden State in 1971.

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