Editing Golden State Warriors (section)

===1959–1965: The Wilt Chamberlain era===
[[File:1960 New York Knicks vs. Philadelphia Warriors.jpeg|thumb|left|150px|Wilt Chamberlain averaged 41.5 points per game and 25.1 rebounds per game during his five and a half seasons with the Warriors.]]
In 1959, the team signed draft pick [[Wilt Chamberlain]]. Known as "Wilt the Stilt", he led the team in scoring six times, quickly began shattering NBA scoring records and changed the NBA style of play forever. On March 2, 1962, in a Warrior "home" game played on a [[Hershey Sports Arena|neutral court]] in [[Hershey, Pennsylvania]], Chamberlain [[Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game|scored 100 points]] against the [[New York Knicks]], a single-game record the NBA ranks among its finest moments.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chamberlain scores 100 in 1962 game versus Knicks|url=http://www.nba.com/history/features/moment-1962-wilt-100/index.html|publisher=National Basketball Association|date=March 2, 2013|access-date=May 3, 2015}}</ref> 

In 1962, [[Franklin Mieuli]] purchased the majority shares of the team and relocated the franchise to the San Francisco Bay Area, renaming them the San Francisco Warriors. The Warriors played most of their home games at the [[Cow Palace]] in [[Daly City, California|Daly City]] (the facility lies just south of the San Francisco city limits) from 1962 to 1964 and the [[San Francisco Civic Auditorium]] from 1964 to 1966, though occasionally playing home games in nearby cities such as Oakland and [[San Jose, California|San Jose]]. They also played frequently at The [[University of San Francisco]] gymnasium. Philadelphia would not remain without an NBA team for long as the [[Syracuse Nationals]] moved to the city in 1963 and became the [[Philadelphia 76ers]]. 

Prior to the [[1963–64 NBA season]], the Warriors drafted big man [[Nate Thurmond]] to go along with Chamberlain. The Warriors won the Western Division crown that season, but lost the [[1964 NBA Finals]] to the [[Boston Celtics]], four games to one. In the 1964–65 season, the Warriors traded Chamberlain to the Philadelphia 76ers for [[Connie Dierking]], [[Lee Shaffer]], [[Paul Neumann (basketball)|Paul Neumann]] and $150,000 and won only 17 games.