The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team, based in San Francisco. The Warriors play within the National Basketball Association as part of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. The Warriors, founded in Philadelphia in 1946, moved in 1962 to the San Francisco Bay Area and took on the name of the city, before changing their geographic moniker to Golden State in 1971. They play their home games in the Chase Center. The Kings, a founding member of the American Basketball League, became the Philadelphia Kings in 1946. We were the owners of Peter A. Tyrrell who once owned the Philadelphia Rockets in the American Hockey League. Tyrrell employed Eddie Gottlieb, a longtime proponent of basketball in the Philadelphia area, as coach and general manager. Unlike the Philadelphia Eagles, an old baseball club that took part in the American Basketball League in 1925, the owners signed up the franchise. The Warriors captured their second championship during the 1955–56 season, crushing the four-to - one Fort Wayne Pistons, during Philadelphia. The Warrior stars of this time included future Hall of Famers Paul Arizin, Tom Gola and Neil Johnston. Driven by early scoring phenomena Joe Fulks, the team won the inaugural championship league season in 1946–47 by crushing the Chicago Stags, four to one games. The NBA, established in 1949 by a merger, officially acknowledges that as its own first championship. Gottlieb bought the team in 1951. The franchise folded in the 1980s but became staples in the playoffs with stars Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond and Chris Mullin at the turn of the decade nicknamed "Run TMC." The team returned to title glory in 2015, led by Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green; they again won in 2017 and 2018, with the help of former MVP Kevin Durant. The Fighters have used several different logo and uniform designs throughout their history, with the most recent change taking place in 2010. On June 12, 2019, the Warriors have announced small improvements to their signature logo, including a new, personalised font. The squad unveiled six new uniform designs incorporating the newly refurbished logo on 17 September 2019. While the Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers played together after the Cavs joined the NBA in 1970, the competition between the two teams started to evolve during the 2014–15 season when they met in the first of four consecutive NBA finals. A group of teams have never played each other in more than two consecutive Seasons. The Warriors have won against the Cavaliers three of the four NBA finals, winning in 2015, 2017 and 2018. Bob Fitzgerald's play-by-play on tv, and the colour commentary by former Warriors swingman Kelenna Azubuike on the NBC Sports Bay Area with the Warriors, where they broadcast more than 70 Warrior games a year. We are also hosting Roundtable Live, a half hour pre-game show that leads to the televisioning of numerous Golden State home games, and also offers postgame commentary. Fitzgerald is the Warriors 'play-by-play man in his 23rd season, and is Azubuike's first colour analyst. The retired Warrior guard Jim Barnett was the TV colour analyst from 1985 to 2019, and is now the full-time colour man on the network. Other telecast crew members include Greg Papa and Garry St. Jean, mid-pregame expert, mid-game, half-time and post-game reporting, while Kerith Burke serves as the sideline reporter. Tim Roye did the radio play-by-play for Warrior sports after 1995. Also for home games former warriors join Tom Tolbert in the pit. He will now be replaced by full-time Jim Barnett beginning in 2019, who will report on all road and home games in colour, and has also been in the booth for national coverage and post-season matchups. On August 25, 2016, the Warriors announced they were leaving long-term KNBR station and will air all their games on KGMZ's 95.7 The Game. Roye, Fitzgerald and Barnett sit down together for the post-game radio commentary following each game and a preview of next season.
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Indiana Pacers
The Indiana Pacers is an American professional basketball team based in Indianapolis. The Pacers compete inside the National Basketball Association as a part of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division. The Pacers were originally founded in 1967 as a member of the American Basketball Association, then became a member of the NBA as part of the 1976 ABA – NBA merger. They play their home games at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. The team takes its name from Indiana's association of the pace cars of the Indianapolis 500 and the racing harness industry. In early 1967 a group of six investors pooled their resources in buying a team in the nascent American Basketball League. During their first 7 years, they played at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum. In 1974, they relocated to the new, luxurious Market Square Arena in downtown Indianapolis where they were performing for 25 years. New Indiana Hoosiers excelled Bob "Slick" Leonard became the franchise's head coach with the Pacers early in the second season, succeeding Larry Staverman. Leonard was soon to become a Pacers juggernaut. His squads have been buoyed by the good play of superstars such as Mel Daniels, George McGinnis, Bob Netolicky, Rick Climb, Freddie Lewis and Roger Brown The Pacers have become-and have been-the most successful franchise in ABA's history, winning three ABA Championships in four years. In total they played in the ABA Finals, which was an ABA record, five times in the league's nine-year history. By the 1993–94 season, Larry Brown was brought along as Pacers 'coordinator, and Pacers' general manager Donnie Walsh made a then highly contested deal when he sent Schrempf to the Seattle SuperSonics in exchange for a little known Derrick McKey and Gerald Paddio. Yet finishing off with an NBA-era franchise-high 47 wins the Pacers played their season's last eight games. They charged for winning their first NBA playoff series victory in a first-round sweep past Shaquille O'Neal and the Orlando Magic and pulled off an upset by upsetting the top-seeded Atlanta Hawks in the semifinals of the tournament. In 2006, despite the absence of Reggie Miller, the Artest saga and other critical injuries, the Pacers made the playoffs for the 14th time in 15 years. We were also the first road team to win a playoff series for the first round in Game 1. However, New Jersey took Game 2 to bring Indiana back to the series at 1–1. In Game 3, Jermaine O'Neal tallied 37 points, as the Pacers took a 2–1 lead in the series. Nonetheless, the Nets took four and five games in the 3–2 series to take a lead. Anthony Johnson scored 40 points in Game 6 but with the Nets leading 96–90, the Pacers season ended. The Pacers finished the 2006–07 season as one of the worst seasons in franchise history. For the Pacers, who finished with a 35–47 record, nearly anything that could have gone wrong did. The tipping point of the season will be an 11-game losing streak that started round off the all-star break. The key reasons for the team's defeats were injuries to Jermaine O'Neal and Marquis Daniels, lack of a capable back-up point guard, divisive trade halfway through the season that threatened team morale, poor defensive efforts and becoming the NBA's worst offensive team. The April 15 loss to the New Jersey Nets put the Pacers out of the playoffs for the first time since the 1996–97 season. Following a good off season in 2019, the Pacers have named four new starters on the opening night. Holdover Myles Turner was joined by Domantas Sabonis, a reserve-turned starter, and recent arrivals including Malcolm Brogdon, T.J. Warren, and Jeremy Lamb who are expected to become a top backup as all-star guard Victor Oladipo returns from injury. Despite a 0–3 start to the season the Pacers had a 26–15 record halfway through the season and ranked them fifth in the Eastern League. Sabonis was later named All-Star of the NBA for the first time in his career.
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