Native American Motifs

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS( Basket Ball - United States - N.B.A )

Debute

When Philadelphia became a member of the BAA - the Basketball Association of America, the forerunner of the N.B.A - the National Basketball Association ( 1946 ), the first task of the team was to rename the new club.After 17 sessons in Philadelphia, the warriors moved to San Francisco in 1962.The team made their new home in Oakland in 1971.In an attempt to get the whole state of California involved with the team, team officials renamed the club "the GoldenStates Warriors"

The evolution of the team's logo

1946 -1962

The Warriors were founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1946 as the Philadelphia warriors, a charter member of the Basketball AssociationOf America. They were owned by Peter Tyrrell, who also owned the Philadelphia Rocket of the American Hocquet Association.The logo is here is detailed by a Native Red Indian playing Basket Ball with the Warriors Innitials written on it.

1962 -1971

In 1962, the new owner of the team, Franklin Mieuli renamed the team, the San Francisco Warriors.The Warriors won the 1963–64 Western Division crown, losing the NBA championship series to the Boston Celtics, four games to one.The logo evoluated from a single Red Indian warrior to a Red Indian Chef hat, circled in yellow and white.

1971 -1977

For the 1971–72 season, the Warriors changed their name to the Golden State Warriors playing all their homes games in Oakland, none were played in San Francisco. After changing their name from the San Francisco Warriors, the Warriors became (and remain) the only NBA team that does not include the name of their state or their city in their team name.The logo again evoluate to appear in a yellow circle surrounded by the state ( Golden State ) and the team's name ( Warriors ) and also tagged by the State logo,followed by a Blue star showing the place of the team's address. All on white background.

Several changes will occur in the logo later on from 1972-73, from putting the accent on more on the Warriors rather than the Golden State around the Yellow circle.However the

 basic illustration of the log

o remains the yellow cicle with the state logo and

 the Blue star showing the club's emplacement.

In 1975-76, the club will ameliorate the logo by readding back the

 State's name on this time on an illustration of a Basket Ball instead of the Yellow circle, and re-adding the Wa

rrior's name underneath the logo.Hence coming back to the

 previous logo of 1971-72 with a Basket Ball instead of a Yellow circle.

1997-98 to Present

In 1997 the club will completely innovate with the new owner of the team, with a mixture of a special typeface lettering the warrior's name showing a guy holding a lighting, hence representing Zeus the God of the lighting on an illustration together with a basket Ball at the back.This time the team's colour will change from Yellow to dark Orange.The State name will be removed and the warriors name only will be kept as it forms part of the logo.

The alternate logo also will have several changes in the team's logo evaluation.From the "Guy " representing Zeus on the main logo to the lighting atached to the "W" of the typeface of the Warriors name, on a Basket Ball background.

Reference

Reference - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_State_Warriors -http://www.nba.com/warriors/history/team_history_index.html Regular Season Debut vs. Houston(10/28/2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEzSEYGR_q0&feature=related