Team:
Philadelphia 76ers
Sport: NBA Basketball
Background: The Philadelphia
76ers are a National Basketball Association
team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Founded: 1946-47 Syracuse
Nationals in National Basketball League, joined
the National Basketball Association in 1949-50.
Formerly known as: Syracuse
Nationals 1946-1963
Home Arena: Wachovia Center
Uniform colors: Navy blue,
Gold, Red, and Sky blue
Logo design: The word "76ERS",
with a basketball streaming out of a star
behind the logo
NBA Championships: 1954-55
(Syracuse), 1966-67, 1982-83
Franchise history:
The original Philadelphia 76ers were
neither in Philadelphia nor called the 76ers.
But the team did begin in a northeastern city
and did have a patriotic name, the Syracuse
Nationals. The Nats had been in the NBA since
the league's first year of existence and came
to the City of Brotherly Love in 1963, just
after the Warriors had abandoned Philadelphia
for San Francisco. Thus began the Philadelphia
76ers, an organization that has featured one
of the best NBA teams ever to swagger onto
the court (68-13 in 1966-67) and one of the
worst to be blown off it (9-73 in 1972-73).
Along the way such figures as Wilt Chamberlain,
Julius Erving, Moses Malone, and Charles Barkley
have registered some of their finest seasons
in a Philadelphia uniform. Other notables,
such as Hal Greer, Billy Cunningham and Maurice
Cheeks, have earned their reputations with
the team as well. Philadelphia, one of the
country's great basketball cities, and its
76ers are an important part of the league's
history and of its future.
