How Many NBA Teams Are in California?

There are a total of eight NBA teams in California: the Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, Sacramento Kings, and Anaheim Ducks.

NBA Teams in California

There are currently two NBA teams located in California, the Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Lakers. The Warriors are based in Oakland, while the Lakers play their home games in Los Angeles. These are the only two teams in the state, as there are no other NBA teams located in California.

Los Angeles Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team in the NBA based in Los Angeles. The Lakers compete in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference. They play their home games at Staples Center, which they share with their cross-town rivals, the Los Angeles Clippers.

Los Angeles Clippers

The Los Angeles Clippers, frequently referred to as the LA Clippers, are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Clippers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Western Conference Pacific Division. The Clippers play their home games at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles, an arena shared with fellow NBA team the Los Angeles Lakers, as well as the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), and the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Sacramento Kings

The Sacramento Kings are an American professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California. The Kings compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Western Conference’s Pacific Division. The Kings are the only team in the major professional North American sports leagues located in Sacramento.

The team plays its home games at the Golden 1 Center. Its predecessor franchise was founded in 1923 as the Rochester Seagrams, a member of the National Basketball League (NBL). They joined the NBA in 1945 as the Rochester Royals and won that league’s championship in 1951. In 1957, they moved to Cincinnati and became the Cincinnati Royals, then to Kansas City-Omaha in 1972 and became the Kansas City-Omaha Kings until 1977, when they moved back to Cincinnati and rechristened themselves as just “the Royals”. In 1985, they were sold to current majority owner Vivek Ranadivé and moved to Sacramento. It is one of three NBA teams owned by that company, alongside the Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers.

Golden State Warriors

The Warriors are based in Oakland, California, and play their home games at the Oracle Arena. The Warriors won the NBA Finals in 2015, 2017, and 2018.

NBA Teams in the Bay Area

The Golden State Warriors, the Los Angeles Clippers, the Los Angeles Lakers, and the Sacramento Kings are all NBA teams in California. But which team is the best in the Bay Area?

San Francisco Warriors

The San Francisco Warriors are a professional basketball team based in San Francisco. The Warriors compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Western Conference Pacific Division. The Warriors play their home games at the Chase Center. Founded in 1946 in Philadelphia, the Warriors relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1962 and took the city’s name, before changing its geographic moniker to Golden State in 1971. They won their only NBA championship as the Philadelphia Warriors in 1956.

The Warriors have reached ten NBA Finals, winning six NBA championships between 1947 and 1975. Winning their first title in 1947 as the Rochester Royals, they captured three championships while based in Philadelphia between 1955 and 1975, including winning two more titles as the Golden State Warriors, in 1967 and 1975. The team has struggled since their last title win 43 years ago; they missed the playoffs from 1977 to 1995, except for a brief visit to the NBA Finals during that strike-shortened season of 1981–82 when Hall of Fame rookie Ralph Sampson joined an aging team that had captured its fourth title under head coach Al Attles duringascist-influenced1976-77 campaign led by Rick Barry, before losing to Magic Johnson’s Los Angeles Lakers during his maiden campaign leading a star-studded Showtime squad that featured Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy and Byron Scott. After several years of continued mediocrity following Attles’ retirement from coaching after their 1981 Finals appearance and subsequent 1982 move back across San Francisco Bay to Oakland from San Jose where they had spent four seasons as part-time tenants at what is now SAP Center due mostly to scheduling conflicts at Oakland Coliseum with Major League Baseball’s Oakland A’s which were then owned by Al Davis who also owned part of the Warriors and served as their General Manager prior to purchasing controlling interest of the then floundering American Football League’s Oakland Raiders who began play at Oakland Coliseum one year after Warrior games began being played there beginning with their final season playing home games exclusively at Cow Palace located south of San Francisco near Daly City though having also played some regular season games there earlier while still playing most home games full-time at Oakland Coliseum beginning with their inaugural season back across SF Bay upon relocating from Philadelphia following that 1955-56 campaign during which they won their first NBA title while still playing on Philly’s east coast under legendary head coach George Karl who would also lead them to a second title five years later during fascist-influenced 1960-61 season which saw them post a then league best 61-21 record before sweeping an aging Boston Celtic squad featuring an injured Bill Russell along with an overmatched Wilt Chamberlain who had just been acquired via trade from those same 76ers whom he had led on Philly’s east coast five years earlier to an impressive 56-26 regular season record en route to that franchise’s first ever trip to NBA Finals prior National Basketball League (NBL) and Basketball Association of America (BAA) merging together following latter franchise having been founded one year prior NBL’s 1949 debut while latter NBL pre merger 1949 champion Minneapolis Lakers led by head coach John Kundla also won five titles between 1950 and 1954 including three straight between 1952 and 1954 one year before Russell joined Chamberlin who he would lose all three showdowns against despite posting better overall career win/loss records than both whom are widely considered among two or three greatest players ever along with Kareem Abdul Jabbar during final four decades or so of 20th century up until present day 21st century

Oakland Oaks

The Oakland Oaks were a charter member of the American Basketball Association (ABA). They were originally owned by entertainer Pat Boone and played their home games in Oakland, California. The Oaks were one of the strongest teams in the fledgling ABA, winning the Western Division title in the league’s first season. They won their second and last division title in 1968–69, after which they merged with the Washington Capitols to become the Capital Bullets.

San Francisco 49ers

The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team located in the San Francisco Bay Area. They are members of the National Football League (NFL) and play their home games at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The 49ers compete in the NFL as a member club of the league’s National Football Conference (NFC) West division. The team was founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and joined the NFL in 1949 after the AAFC merged with the NFL. The 49ers were the first major league professional sports franchise based in San Francisco.

NBA Teams in Southern California

There are two NBA teams in California that are located in southern California. These teams are the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers. The Lakers are one of the most successful teams in NBA history, while the Clippers are one of the most up-and-coming teams in the league.

Anaheim Amigos

The Anaheim Amigos were a charter member of the American Basketball Association (ABA). They were located in Anaheim, California, and played their home games at the Anaheim Convention Center. The team existed for only one season, 1967–68, before moving to Los Angeles and becoming the Los Angeles Stars.

Los Angeles Stars

The Los Angeles Stars were a professional basketball team in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1961 to 1963. The team was based in Los Angeles, California, and played their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. The Stars were founded as an expansion team in 1961 and were the first NBA team in Southern California.

The Stars finished their inaugural season with a record of 43-37, good for fourth place in the Western Division. The team made the playoffs, but lost in the first round to the Detroit Pistons. In 1962-63, the Stars finished with a record of 30-50 and missed the playoffs. Following the season, the team relocated to San Diego, California and became the San Diego Rockets.

Inland Empire 66ers

The Inland Empire 66ers are a minor league baseball team in San Bernardino, California. The 66ers play in the High-A West League and are affiliated with the Los Angeles Angels. The team is named for Route 66, which used to go through the city of San Bernardino.

The 66ers began as the San Bernardino Spirit, an expansion team in 1987. The team won two championships as the Spirit, in 1992 and 1994. In 1995, the team was renamed the Stampede. In 2000, the team became affiliated with the Anaheim Angels and were renamed again, this time to the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes.

In 2006, the Quakes were moved to Adelanto, California and became known as the High Desert Mavericks. In 2015, after 27 years in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., home of the Triple-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, The Quakes announced they would be relocating to San Bernardino for 2016 and beyond due to financial reasons stemming from their failed efforts to secure public funding for a new ballpark in Rancho Cucamonga.