The 2006âÂÂ07 Golden State Warriors season was the 61st National Basketball Association (NBA) season for the Golden State Warriors basketball franchise, and their 34th overall while based in Oakland, California. Following the 2005âÂÂ06 season, in which the Warriors ranked last in their division, the team roster was greatly revamped following a blockbuster eight-player deal with the Indiana Pacers in January 2007. After an average start to the 2006âÂÂ07 season, Golden State made a dramatic turn-around, ending the year on a 16âÂÂ5 run, and capturing the eighth seed in the Western Conference, marking their return to the post-season after a thirteen-year hiatus, having last made the playoffs in 1994. The Warriors met the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks led by regular season MVP Dirk Nowitzki in the first round of the playoffs, and shocked many in the basketball world when they defeated the Mavericks and Nowitzki four games to two, for their first playoff series win since 1991, and becoming the third eighth-seeded team in NBA history to eliminate a first-seeded team in the playoffs, and the first to do so over a 7 game series, following the Denver Nuggets in 1994, and the New York Knicks in the strike shortened 1999 season. However, the Warriors met the Utah Jazz in the second round, and were defeated four games to one.
The Warriors would not make the playoffs again until 2013.
Borrowing from the success of the Sacramento Kingsâ 2004âÂÂ2005 playoff marketing campaign, which the Sacramento Kings used the slogan âÂÂWe Believe,â We Believe became the Warriorsâ slogan for the last two months of the season and the playoffs.
Record: 9âÂÂ7; home: 8âÂÂ4; road: 1âÂÂ3
Record: 7âÂÂ9; home: 5âÂÂ1; road: 2âÂÂ8
Record: 5âÂÂ9; home: 4âÂÂ3; road: 1âÂÂ6
Record: 5âÂÂ8; home: 3âÂÂ1; road: 2âÂÂ6
Record: 8âÂÂ6; home: 6âÂÂ1; road: 2âÂÂ5
Record: 8âÂÂ1; home: 4âÂÂ0; road: 4âÂÂ1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 1 | April 22 | @ Dallas | W 97âÂÂ85 | Baron Davis (33) | Baron Davis (14) | Baron Davis (8) | American Airlines Center<br>20,732 | 1âÂÂ0 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 2 | April 25 | @ Dallas | L 99âÂÂ112 | Stephen Jackson (30) | Jason Richardson (10) | Jason Richardson (3) | American Airlines Center<br>20,867 | 1âÂÂ1 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 3 | April 27 | Dallas | W 109âÂÂ91 | Jason Richardson (30) | Andris Biedrià Âà ¡ (10) | Stephen Jackson (6) | Oracle Arena<br>20,629 | 2âÂÂ1 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 4 | April 29 | Dallas | W 103âÂÂ99 | Baron Davis (33) | Baron Davis (8) | Baron Davis (4) | Oracle Arena<br>20,672 | 3âÂÂ1 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 5 | May 1 | @ Dallas | L 112âÂÂ118 | Baron Davis (27) | Mickaël Piétrus (10) | Baron Davis (9) | American Airlines Center<br>21,041 | 3âÂÂ2 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 6 | May 3 | Dallas | W 111âÂÂ86 | Stephen Jackson (33) | Andris Biedrià Âà ¡ (12) | Matt Barnes (7) | Oracle Arena<br>20,677 | 4âÂÂ2 |-
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 1 | May 7 | @ Utah | L 112âÂÂ116 | Baron Davis (24) | Barnes, Richardson (10) | Baron Davis (7) | EnergySolutions Arena<br>19,911 | 0âÂÂ1 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 2 | May 9 | @ Utah | L 117âÂÂ127 (OT) | Baron Davis (36) | Matt Barnes (7) | Baron Davis (7) | EnergySolutions Arena<br>19,911 | 0âÂÂ2 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 3 | May 11 | Utah | W 125âÂÂ105 | Baron Davis (32) | Andris Biedrià Âà ¡ (13) | Baron Davis (9) | Oracle Arena<br>20,655 | 1âÂÂ2 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 4 | May 13 | Utah | L 101âÂÂ115 | Jackson, Harrington (24) | Andris Biedrià Âà ¡ (10) | Baron Davis (7) | Oracle Arena<br>20,679 | 1âÂÂ3 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 5 | May 15 | @ Utah | L 87âÂÂ100 | Baron Davis (21) | Jason Richardson (8) | Baron Davis (8) | EnergySolutions Arena<br>19,911 | 1âÂÂ4 |-