In the 1971-1972 season, the Warriors not only moved their home stadium to Oakland, but also changed the name of the team to the Golden State Warriors, and the home stadium of the old Oakland Stadium was the Oracle Arena before it was renovated in the future, and the history of the Golden State Warriors really began this season!

This season, Jeff Mullins, Nate Cummond and Kaz Russell, a new recruit from the Knicks, have all averaged more than 20 points per game this season, and the Warriors have begun to have some offensive and defensive tendencies at this time, and this season the Warriors have achieved a team-record 51 wins, but in the Western Conference semifinals of the playoffs, the Warriors were still defeated by last year's old rival, the Milwaukee Bucks, with a score of 1:4.

In the 1972-1973 season, Rick Barry returned to the Warriors, while averaging 22.3 points, 8.9 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game, the Warriors' lineup was unprecedentedly strong, this season the Warriors reached the playoffs again, and met the old rival Bucks in the third year.

To tell a joke, a reporter went to the North Pole to interview the penguin and asked the first penguin, what do you usually do, the penguin replied, eat, sleep, hit Doudou, the reporter asked the second penguin, what do you usually do, the penguin replied, eat, sleep, beat Doudou, the reporter asked the third penguin, the third penguin just said, eat, sleep, the reporter asked, you don't beat Doudou? The penguin said angrily, Lao Tzu is Doudou! Now this Warriors team is Doudou, which was flattened by the Celtics, then flattened by the Lakers, and finally flattened by the Bucks, and finally was flattened by the Bucks......

Since the beginning of this season, Jeff Mullins and "Nate the Great" have begun to enter the downhill road of their careers, although Rick Barry still averages 25.1 points, 6.8 rebounds and 6.1 assists per game to support this weak Warriors, and Kaz Russell also scored 20.4 points per game, but the Golden State Warriors still fell in an irreversible way, and they didn't even make the playoffs this season. It's staggering!

They first sent Nate Thurmond to the Chicago Bulls in exchange for Crawford Ray, who was a 206-centimeter center who averaged 9.4 points and 10.6 rebounds per game in the season after coming to the Warriors. They selected two very important players in the 1974 NBA draft - Jamal Wilkes with the 11th pick in the first round, Phil Smith with the 11th pick in the second round, Wilkes is 198 cm tall, a guard, his shooting posture is very weird, the basketball is thrown with one hand on the chest, the reference model is the current Kevin Martin, but Wilkes has an extremely smooth feel like Martin, and his career shooting rate is 49.9%, Therefore, it won a "silk" nickname, it is worth mentioning that Jamal Wilkes was the original and legendary six people of the "Nikeairforce1", "Nikeairforce1" was the first sneaker produced by Nike, at the beginning of its birth, Nike identified the promoted star style, so in that year, they recruited the hottest "six people" in the league to endorse them, they are Moses Malone, Michael Cooper, Bobby Jones, Mitchell Thompson, Calvin Knight and Jamal Wilkes, in 2007, Nike redefined "Nikeairforce1" with new stars of a new era, they are Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Rasheed Wallace, Amare Stoudemire, Tony Parker and Vince Carter, this is the "New Six".

Al Atels was the head coach of the Warriors that year, he was the head coach of the team when he was still a San Francisco Warriors in 1969, in fact, he contributed 55 glorious years to the Warriors in his whole life - he played for only one team in his eleven years as a player, he coached for 14 years and also only played for one team as a coach, until 1982-1983, when Atles really left the spotlight, but he still did not leave the Warriors, He also worked as a scout, manager, and other behind-the-scenes staff for the Warriors, and now that Aters' jersey is hanging over Oracle Arena, he has spent his life tied to the books of the Warriors' glorious history and won the Warriors' first championship since moving to Oakland.

In the 1974-1975 season, in fact, the Warriors played a decent season, not good, not bad, they won 48 games throughout the season, ranking the champion of the Pacific region, but looking at the entire league, the Washington Bullets won a full 60 games! The two teams made it all the way to the Finals, which seemed to be tilting the scales of victory for the Washington Bullets, who had Elvin Hayes, Dave Bing, Phil Cheniere and Wes Unseld, as the Warriors had only one star in the true sense of the word, Rick Barry.

However, the person mentioned above played a huge role, he was the then head coach of the Warriors Al Artels, he has been setting up for the Finals since the beginning of the regular season, in fact, many years later, Atles himself admitted that he was making all the preparations at that time, with their lineup, it is really a luxury to want to enter the Finals at the beginning of the season, this sentence has been pressed on Atles's chest, but he didn't say it, fortunately, Atles did, In the 1975 Finals, the Warriors, who were originally easy for the Bullets to crush, caught the Bullets off guard in the first game, 1:0, 2:0, 3:0, 4:0! Yes, you read that right, the Warriors, who seem to be at a disadvantage on paper, won four consecutive games against the Bullets to win the championship! Atles doesn't have any superstars other than Rick Barry, but he has a group of role players who are all on the floor at key moments, in the regular season, Atles tried to use a ten-man rotation lineup, such a squad depth, even now it looks extremely crazy, Rick Barry won the Finals MVP, interestingly, at that time, under the disparity in strength between the Warriors and the Bullets, even the arena rental company did not expect the Warriors to win the championship in the end, so during the Finals, They rented the arena to another big event, and the Finals had to be played in the San Francisco Warriors' arena. This championship trophy is also the only championship trophy of Barry Sr.'s career.

In the 1975-1976 season, 10 of the 12-year career was spent with the Warriors when Jeff Mullins retired. As some of the team's young players continued to grow, Rick Barry scored a lot less on his shoulders, and Jamal Wilkes averaged 17.8 points and 8.8 rebounds per game to become the mainstay of the team, and they won a league-best 59 games in the regular season, but lost to the Phoenix Suns in the second round of the playoffs.

Speaking of this, it is necessary to start with Barry's return to the NBA from the ABA, after Barry joined the ABA, he originally thought that it was a fish into the sea and a bird into the mountains and forests, but he didn't think that he was completely fooled by the Oaks, the competitive level here is far from the NBA, Barry once thought that only he and Dr. J Irving have the level of the NBA in the entire ABA, Barry is arrogant and has a very bad temper, as long as his teammates do something wrong on the court, Barry will scold directly, and the inferior competitive level of the ABA makes Barry scold three times a day, Piggyback on his ancestors can't finish scolding, so Barry's temper is getting worse and worse, this stinky temper back to the NBA is still not the slightest change, this year the Warriors played the Suns, the sixth game Barry because his teammates did not pass the ball to him in a fast break and went berserk, refused to shoot in the second half, even if there was a big gap under the basket, did not shoot, and finally the Warriors were reversed by the Suns, after the game, Barry did not apologize, but took the lead in giving up the game to his teammates, which has also become the biggest stain on Barry's career.

In 1976, the ABA merged with the NBA, and four ABA teams joined the NBA, they were the New Jersey Nets, Denver Diggers, Indiana Pacers and San Antonio Spurs Robert Parish, the nickname "Chief" was given by the 1981 Finals MVP Derek Maswell, and there was a very popular movie "One Flew Over the Asylum" at that time Parish looked very similar to the Indiana chief in it, and Parish was really an Indian, so the nickname "Chief" was well deserved. The rookie Parrish is averaging 9.1 points and 7.1 rebounds per game.

In the 1977-1978 season, Jamal Wilkes, who played for the Warriors for three seasons, joined the Warriors' sworn rivals Los Angeles Lakers as a free agent, for the simple reason - Lao Tzu is here to be the boss, not to let Rick Barry scold him every day! Lao Tzu can't scold you on the mouth, and you cry on the field! In 2012, Wilkes was inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame along with Reggie Miller, Don Nelson and Ralph Sampson, and of course, Wilkes' accolades had more to do with his accomplishments with the Lakers.

In the 1977-1978 season, the Warriors ended the regular season with a record of 43 wins and 39 losses, and the winning rate exceeded 50% for seven consecutive seasons, but because the Pacific team record was too strong, the Warriors did not even enter the playoffs, and after the season, Rick Barry, who became a free man, left the Warriors who played for eight years to join the Rockets, and the Warriors also poached from the Rockets to the 1976 champion Hidemi John Lucas II, The latter averaged 16.1 points and 9.3 assists per game in the new season, and Sonny Parker of the Warriors was also an NBA rookie in 1976, but he was the 15th pick in the first round, and he had the best season of his career this season, averaging 15.2 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game.

Rick Barry scored 11,613 points for Golden State, (the Philadelphia Warriors and Los Angeles Warriors are not included in this record), ranking third on the Golden State Warriors' scoring list, ranking ninth with 3,091 rebounds, fourth with 2,792 assists, and second with 929 steals. In 1987, Rick Barry was inducted into the U.S. Basketball Hall of Fame, and in 1996, Rick Barry was inducted into the NBA's Top 50 Stars.

After Barry's retirement, Phil Smith became the team's number one offensive point, averaging 19.9 points and 4.4 assists per game, and Parrish began to show star temperament, averaging 17.2 points, 12.1 rebounds and 2.9 blocks per game, and broke the all-time team record with 217 blocks this season, Clifford Ray is still the team's interior mainstay, and his contributions are mainly on the defensive end, averaging 6.9 points and 7.4 rebounds per game. The Warriors, who average 24.3 points younger and 2.3 years of age, lack the necessary experience to win just 38 games this season, drop below 50 percent for the first time in eight years, and miss out on the playoffs for the second year in a row.

I thought that the Warriors' record would slowly improve as the young players grow, but who knew that the next season would be even more devastating, last year's leading scorer Phil Smith was plagued by an Achilles tendon injury this season, playing only 51 games in the whole season, Averaging only 15.5 points per game, Robert Parish became the only player on the team who performed well, he averaged 17.0 points, 10.9 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per game, John Lucas II declined, averaging only 12.6 points and 7.5 assists per game, Clifford Ray entered the end of his career, averaging only 20 minutes per game, 6.0 points and 5.8 rebounds, and Pavis Short, who was drafted by the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the fifth rookie in 1978, broke out this year after a year of accumulation, averaging a team-high 17.0 points per game and shooting more than 50 from the fieldAlso in the 1978 draft, the Warriors selected Wayne Cooper with the 18th pick in the second round, and this season also ushered in a small explosion. The average points per game soared from 4.6 points per game in his rookie season to 11.0 points per game this season, although the young people performed well, but they were too young to suffer a big loss in the record, and the final record was 24-58, ranking second to last in the league, it is worth mentioning that the Warriors played a total of eight overtime games with other teams this season and did not win one, which also set the most unlucky record in the NBA.

It's also a sigh to say that in the 1978 draft, the Warriors selected Pavis Short with the fifth pick in the first round, and then with the sixth pick, Boston selected a future Hall of Fame player, Larry Bird, one of the league's top 50 superstars.