The Golden State Warriors, who now play in the new Chase Center in San Francisco, have played in San José. While playing in the city of San José, the Warriors are 33-57.
San Jose Arena, 1996-97 Season
The 1996-97 season brought renovations to the Oakland Coliseum Arena where the Warriors played at the time. So the San Jose Arena was made their temporary home.
The Warriors finished the season in 10th place in the Western Conference with a 30-52 record behind coach Rick Adelman. Lattrell Sprewell led the team in scoring and was selected as an All Star. A young Joe Smith and veterans Chris Mullin and Mark Price also contributed that season.
San Jose Civic Auditorium, 1964-1967 Seasons
From Feb 6, 1964 through January 13, 1967, the San Francisco Warriors played a few games a season at the San Jose Civic Auditorium. They’re “home” court was the San Francisco Civic Auditorium but the team played games all over California and even in other states. In that 1960s timeframe Warriors’ legends like Wilt Chamberlain, Rick Barry, Al Attles and others played in San José.
On February 9, 1965, the San Francisco Warriors hosted the recently traded Wilt Chamberlain and the Philadelphia 76’ers at the San Jose Civic Auditorium.
Wilt Chamberlain, whom the Madera Tribune referred to as “The Big Dipper,” put up 33 points that night as the Warriors fell 132-114 to their former superstar.
Connie Dierking, of the Warriors, put up an admirable 30 points.
Feb 9, 1965 – San Francisco Warriors vs Philadelphia 76’ers
| San Francisco Warriors Box Score Stats | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | MP | FG | FGA | FG% | FT | FTA | FT% | TRB | AST | PF | PTS | |||||
| Connie Dierking | 46:00 | 12 | 28 | .429 | 6 | 10 | .600 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 30 | |||||
| Tom Meschery | 39:00 | 7 | 20 | .350 | 3 | 5 | .600 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 17 | |||||
| McCoy McLemore | 35:00 | 4 | 14 | .286 | 1 | 1 | 1.000 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 9 | |||||
| Paul Neumann | 33:00 | 5 | 10 | .500 | 2 | 4 | .500 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 | |||||
| Guy Rodgers | 26:00 | 4 | 16 | .250 | 5 | 6 | .833 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 13 | |||||
| Al Attles | 25:00 | 5 | 11 | .455 | 0 | 2 | .000 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 10 | |||||
| John Rudometkin | 19:00 | 4 | 11 | .364 | 0 | 1 | .000 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 8 | |||||
| Gary Phillips | 12:00 | 4 | 9 | .444 | 1 | 1 | 1.000 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | |||||
| Cotton Nash | 5:00 | 2 | 3 | .667 | 2 | 2 | 1.000 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| Team Totals | 240 | 47 | 122 | .385 | 20 | 32 | .625 | 59 | 26 | 28 | 114 | Philadelphia 76’ers Box Score Stats | ||||
| Player | MP | FG | FGA | FG% | FT | FTA | FT% | TRB | AST | PF | PTS | |||||
| Wilt Chamberlain | 42:00 | 13 | 25 | .520 | 7 | 14 | .500 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 33 | |||||
| Hal Greer | 41:00 | 11 | 20 | .550 | 9 | 11 | .818 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 31 | |||||
| Luke Jackson | 39:00 | 9 | 16 | .563 | 2 | 3 | .667 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 20 | |||||
| Larry Costello | 36:00 | 4 | 9 | .444 | 6 | 7 | .857 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 14 | |||||
| Chet Walker | 23:00 | 2 | 9 | .222 | 1 | 1 | 1.000 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5 | |||||
| Dave Gambee | 21:00 | 4 | 7 | .571 | 2 | 2 | 1.000 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 10 | |||||
| Al Bianchi | 16:00 | 1 | 4 | .250 | 2 | 2 | 1.000 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Red Kerr | 15:00 | 4 | 7 | .571 | 1 | 1 | 1.000 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 9 | |||||
| Ben Warley | 4:00 | 0 | 2 | .000 | 2 | 2 | 1.000 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Steve Courtin | 3:00 | 2 | 2 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||
| Team Totals | 240 | 47 | 122 | .385 | 20 | 32 | .625 | 59 | 26 | 28 | 114 | |||||
| Team Totals | 240 | 50 | 101 | .495 | 32 | 43 | .744 | 70 | 25 | 26 | 132 | |||||