The Warriors are a legendary team in the NBA, and they have produced countless glories over the past decade, winning four championships and breaking several NBA records in the last decade.
However, the Warriors have not always been so successful, they have had their lows, they have had setbacks, they have had failures. They also had their worst season when they had a miserable record.
Here's a look back at five of the Warriors' worst seasons ever, so let's witness their dark times.
5th Place: 1997-98 Record: 19-63 (23.2% win rate)
The 1997-98 Warriors had a good roster, they had Ratrell Sprewell, Chris Mullan, Joe Smith and other strong players, and they had P.J. With an experienced manager like Calesimo, they have the hope of competing for the playoffs.
However, an unbelievable thing happened to the Warriors this season, when their head coach was choked by their star, and it became the ugliest scene in NBA history.
This incident happened on December 1, 1997, when the Warriors were in a team training, Sprewell behaved casually, head coach Callesimo was very dissatisfied with his behavior, and reprimanded him in public, Sprewell, who couldn't hold his face, was angry and directly choked his head coach's neck, and his teammates saved Callesimo from the clutches after more than ten seconds.
To this day, there is still a faint red mark on Calesimo's neck, and many years later, when he recalled the incident, he said: "At that time, I was powerless to resist, and all I thought was that this guy really wanted to kill me." Sprewell got the nickname "The Madman" for this.
The incident shocked the entire NBA, and Sprewell was suspended by the NBA for 68 games, the longest in NBA history at the time, and he was also traded by the Warriors to the New York Knicks, and his career was overshadowed ever since.
The Warriors have also been thrown into chaos because of this incident, their record has plummeted, their offense and defense are in the bottom few of the league, and their players and coaches have lost confidence and fighting spirit.
4th Place: 1999-2000 Record: 19-63 (23.2% win rate)
The Warriors in the 1999-2000 season were a directionless team, their roster was a mix of veterans and rookies, their coach was a man without prestige, and their management was a bunch of incompetent people.
They have three out-of-fashion veterans on their roster, John Starks, Murch Blaylock and Terry Cummings, all of whom are over 30 years old, and their form has declined, and none of them have much to do.
They also have two potential rookies on their roster, Antoine Jamison and Larry Hughes, both sophomores, both of whom are talented and have bright futures.
However, they don't have a leader who can lead the team in their roster, they don't have a star who can play consistently, and they don't have a player who can play the core.
This season, the Warriors have a 19-63 record and are third from bottom in the league, better than the Chicago Bulls (17-65) and the Los Angeles Clippers (15-67).
3rd place: 1964-65 17-63 (21.3% win rate)
The 1964-65 Warriors had a strong roster with Wilt Chamberlain, Nate Thurmond, Tom Golla and Al Artie, and they were a championship-winning team that reached the Finals last season, and they had high expectations this season.
However, a shocking thing happened to the Warriors this season, when their star was traded to an opposing team, which became the most surprising transaction in NBA history.
It happened on January 15, 1965, when the Warriors were in the middle of All-Star Weekend, when their owner, Eddie Gottlieb, suddenly announced that he had traded Chamberlain to the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for Paul Newman, Lee Shavre, Jack McMahon and a sum of cash.
The deal came as a shock to the entire NBA, and Chamberlain was one of the best players of his time.
Chamberlain was traded because the Warriors were worried about his heart problems. Chamberlain was suspended for a period of time in '65 due to heart problems. The Warriors doctor concluded that Chamberlain's heart was in terrible condition and could even end his career, and management immediately decided to send Chamberlain away.
The impact of this deal on the Warriors was catastrophic, they lost their core, they lost their leader, they lost their hope.
Since the time of the trade, the Warriors' record has taken a nosedive, and by the end of the regular season, they had a 17-63 record. Although Nate Thurmond averaged 16.5 points and 18.1 rebounds per game, there's no denying that Chamberlain's 38.9 points per game was the key to the Warriors' struggling to sustain that season. However, the 7-foot-1-inch All-Star has only played in 38 games for the San Francisco Warriors, so it's no surprise that the team didn't return to the Finals as they did the previous season.
2nd place 2000-01 Record: 17-65 (20.7% win rate)
The previous season, the 99-00 season, the Warriors had a disappointing 19-63 record, but the 2000-01 season made matters worse, and their final record fell to 17-65.
Despite the outstanding performances of Jamison and Hughes, the rest of the team did not provide enough support, resulting in the team slipping down the rankings.
At that time, Celtics legend Dave Cowens succeeded Callesimo as the head coach of the Warriors. However, the change didn't really help the team, and the Warriors continued to play poorly on the court. They rank 28th in the league in both offense and defense, with an inefficient offense that scores just 97.8 points per game, while their defense is even more porous, conceding a whopping 107.4 points per game.
This performance is clearly far from what was expected, so it's no surprise that the Warriors have fallen to the bottom of the NBA this season. Only the Bulls had a worse record than the Warriors that season, finishing bottom with a 15-67 record, disappointing Chicago fans. For fans of the Golden State Warriors, this time of the early 21st century is indeed a dark history that cannot be looked back on.
1st Place 1952-53 Record: 12-57 (17.4% win rate)
During the 1952-53 season, although the NBA was still in its infancy, the emerging professional sports league had shown impressive potential. However, during that period, the Philadelphia Warriors did not become a team that made the fans boil, and they always lost to stronger opponents.
That season, the Warriors had a terrible record, finishing 12-57 and sitting firmly at the bottom of the Eastern Conference. Although Neil Johnson leads the league with an impressive 22.3 points per game, he can't turn the Warriors' fortunes around.
The stats show that the Warriors averaged 80.2 points per game, which ranked 8th out of 10 teams, while conceding 87.4 points per game, ranking 9th, scoring 83.9 offensive efficiency, the league's lowest, and 91.4 defensive efficiency, ranking 9th. These data fully expose their serious problems on both offensive and defensive ends.
That season, the Warriors finished with the league's worst 12-57 record and finished last in the Eastern Conference. Although Neil Johnson leads the league in averaging 22.3 points per game, his efforts are still difficult to change the overall decline of the Warriors.
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