When Did the Warriors Become Golden State?

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The Warriors became the Golden State Warriors in 1971, when the franchise moved across San Francisco Bay to Oakland. Before that change, they had spent nine seasons playing as the San Francisco Warriors. The club’s history began much farther east. Founded in 1946 as the Philadelphia Warriors, it moved to the West Coast in 1962. The sequence of names therefore records different chapters of the same franchise: Philadelphia, San Francisco and then Golden State. Another move came in 2019, when the Warriors returned to San Francisco to play at Chase Center in the Mission Bay neighborhood. The Golden State name stayed with them. Following the locations alongside the names helps explain how one basketball club can be associated with both San Francisco and Oakland, while tracing its beginnings to Philadelphia. Source: NBA Communications’ Warriors franchise history .  
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Why Are the New York Knicks Called the Knicks?

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Conceptual illustration of a basketball, old book and tricorn hat overlooking New York

Knicks is a shortened form of Knickerbockers, a name that became a symbol of New York long before the basketball team existed. The club adopted it in 1946, drawing on an identity already familiar to the city.

The literary connection began with Washington Irving. In 1809, he published a satirical history of New York under the invented name Diedrich Knickerbocker. The character and name caught on, and Knickerbocker became a nickname for a Manhattan resident. Businesses, publications and sports clubs also used it.

Father Knickerbocker later appeared in cartoons as a personification of New York, much as Uncle Sam represents the United States. When Ned Irish sought a name for his basketball franchise, Knickerbockers won the vote. The team’s original logo, used from 1946 to 1964, showed Father Knickerbocker dribbling a basketball. The shorter name still carries that link between sport, literature and the city’s older civic identity. Source: NYC Department of Records and Information Services.

 

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