5 Lesser known facts about the Golden State Warriors

#4 The Team was Originally Named Philadelphia Warriors and Also Won the First Ever Championship Way Back in 1947.

Joe Fulks

The Golden State Warriors have not always been the Golden State Warriors.

The team was founded in 1946 as the Philadelphia Warriors, a charter member of the Basketball Association of America. The team was based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a founding member of the Basketball Association of America (BAA).

The team won the championship in the league's inaugural 1946–47 season(defeating the Chicago Stags 4-1), led by scoring sensation Joe Fulks. The 1949 merger that led to the formation of NBA recognizes that as its own first championship

Franklin Mieuli, a Bay Area radio and television producer, purchased the majority shares of the team in 1962 and relocated the franchise to the San Francisco Bay Area, renaming them the San Francisco Warriors. They dropped their native American logo and nine years later, became the Golden State Warriors.

So now we know something about the history of the origin of the bay area giants.