Denver Nuggets and Golden State Warriors history

        Denver Nuggets and Golden State Warriors history

                    The Denver Nuggets are a professional basketball team in Denver,Colorado that plays in the National Basketball Association. According to the Funding University(2003) the team was founded as the Denver Larks in 1967 as a charter franchise of the American Basketball Association (ABA) but changed its name to the Rockets before its first season , it changed its name again to the Nuggets in anticipation of an ABA-NBA merger in 1974 and played for the final ABA championship title in 1876, losing to the New York Nets(P.N.D).The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based on Oakland, California. According to Simmons(2010) the team was established in 1946 as the Philadelphia Warriors in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania. Where the franchise won the championship in the inaugural season of the basketball Association of America (BAA) the league that would eventually become the National Basketball Association after the merger with the National Basketball league(P.N.D).

Funding University (2003): Denver Nugget history

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Simmons.R(2012): Limp to victory is fitting finish

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