Editing Philadelphia 76ers (section)

===Relocation to Philadelphia===
[[File:Municipal Auditorium and Convention Hall, 34th Street, below Spruce, Philadelphia, Pa (61770).jpg|thumb|[[Philadelphia Convention Hall and Civic Center|Philadelphia Convention Hall]], previous home of the [[Golden State Warriors|Philadelphia Warriors]] from 1952 to 1962 and home of the 76ers from 1963 to 1967]]
The playoff overtime loss on March 26, 1963 would prove to be the last game for the Syracuse Nationals, as investors [[Irv Kosloff]] and [[Ike Richman]] purchased the team from [[Danny Biasone]] and moved the team to Philadelphia, filling the void left by the [[Golden State Warriors|Warriors]], who had moved to San Francisco. Syracuse was the last of the medium-sized cities housing an NBA team, but by then it was apparent that central New York was no longer large enough to support it. The NBA thus returned to Philadelphia one year after the Warriors had left it. A contest was held to decide on a new name for the team. The winning name, chosen by Walter Stalberg, was the "76ers".<ref>{{cite web|title=History of the Name|url=http://www.nba.com/sixers/history/name.html|publisher=NBA Media Ventures, LLC|website=Sixers.com|date=June 19, 2015|access-date=June 19, 2015|archive-date=June 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150604170021/http://www.nba.com/sixers/history/name.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="76ersHistoricalLook" /> The name comes from the signing of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]] in Philadelphia in 1776. "Sixers" was also utilized for shorter referencing,<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Rollins |first1=Khadrice |title=Why Are They Called the 76ers? |url=https://www.si.com/nba/2018/05/02/philadelphia-76ers-name-history-where-it-came-from |magazine=Sports Illustrated |access-date=November 21, 2021 |date=May 2, 2018 |archive-date=November 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120074721/https://www.si.com/nba/2018/05/02/philadelphia-76ers-name-history-where-it-came-from |url-status=live }}</ref> particularly in headlines. The shorter name was quickly accepted by the team for marketing purposes, and for most of the last six decades "76ers" and "Sixers" have been officially interchangeable.

For their first four years in Philadelphia, the 76ers played mostly at the [[Philadelphia Arena]] and [[Philadelphia Civic Center|Civic Center-Convention Hall]], and occasionally at [[The Palestra]] at the [[University of Pennsylvania]]. Schayes was named head coach, a post he held for four years (the first as player-coach).