Santa Cruz Warriors

The Santa Cruz Warriors are an American basketball team, which is currently active in the NBA Development League.

History

IBA

1995-2001, they played as a team of International Basketball Association. In the last season of this league, they won this.

CBA

After the dissolution of the IBA, the Wizards changed in the Continental Basketball Association, where they finished their first regular season with 26 and won only 14 games and lost this year in the finals defeated the Rockford Lightning with 116:109 and masters were.

In the following season they went as favorite in the title race, but lost in the playoff semi-finals against the subsequent Champions this season, namely against the Yakima Sun Kings.

The following season was the best in team history, they finished the regular season with 34 won and 14 lost games and were once again with a victory in the finals against the Idaho Stampede champion.

After this season, coach Dave Joerger moved to the Sioux Falls Skyforce. The former assistant coach Casey Owens was head coach. They made it back with a good track record in the D -League playoffs, where they were eliminated, however, after 5 games against their Erstrundengegener Sioux Falls Skyforce.

The next season was bad for the Wizards, with 19 won and 29 lost games they did not manage to get into de playoffs, what the coach Dave Bliss, who replaced before the season Owens, caused them to leave the team again.

NBA Development League

It was not certain, but on April 1, it was announced that the team would stay for three years in their arena, and on April 6, they gave their changes in the NBA Development League known. In the first season as a part of this they defeated in the final of the Colorado 14ers in overtime.

For the 2009/10 season Rory White was entrusted as coach. In his first season he no longer made ​​it with the team to the playoffs in his second, however.

For the 2011/12 season the Golden State Warriors bought the team and made ​​it so that the fourth franchise from the D -League, which is wholly owned by an NBA team. The Wizards took on the colors of the Warriors. Nate Bjorkgren was appointed coach.

For the 2012/2013 season, the Warriors moved the team to Santa Cruz. In addition to the colors and the name of the franchise was in the resettlement adjusted and the team was renamed the Santa Cruz Warriors by a direct reference to the Golden State Warriors to produce. In the first season in Santa Cruz, the Warriors were able to qualify for the play -offs and went there in April 2013 to the final championship of the D- League.

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