Christopher J. Cohan is the current owner of the Golden State Warriors of the NBA. He acquired a 25-percent interest in the team in 1991; in 1995, he became sole owner; he sold 20 percent of the team to four Silicon Valley investors in 2005. The Golden State Warriors are a National Basketball Association team based in Oakland, California. ... The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ... A view of downtown San Jose, the self-proclaimed Capital of Silicon Valley. Like many large cities, San Joses downtown is expansive and encompasses much more area than shown in this view. ...

Cohan's tenure as owner of the Warriors has been anything but successful. The 1994-95 Warriors made the playoffs. With All Stars Tim Hardaway, Latrell Sprewell, and rookie of the year Chris Webber on the roster, the team seemed bound for greater glory. However, Cohan acquired the team under cloudy circumstances when the new season was only a few days old, filing suit against majority owners Dan Finnane and Jim Fitzgerald. Cohan claimed that the three had a handshake agreement whereby Cohan could purchase the entire team in three years. Cohan finally purchased the team for the unheard sum of $144 million. Within a month, Webber was traded, and in February of the following year, popular coach Don Nelson resigned. Timothy Duane Hardaway (born September 1, 1966 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former NBA basketball player, who in his prime was one of the leagues best at the point guard position. ... Latrell Sprewell. ... Mayce Edward Christopher Webber III, better known as Chris Webber (born March 1, 1973 in Detroit, Michigan), is an NBA basketball player, most notably with the Sacramento Kings and currently with the Philadelphia 76ers. ... Donald Arvid Nelson (born May 15, 1940 in Muskegon, Michigan) is a retired NBA head coach. ...

The Warriors have never made the playoffs under Cohan, an eleven year drought that marks the longest of any team in NBA history. Under Cohan, the team has had nine head coaches and never had a winning season. When the Warriors hosted the 2000 NBA All Star Game in Oakland, fans booed Cohan. [1]

"For anyone known to have an association with the current Warriors owner, Chris Cohan, it's a good day if he hasn't sued you. The man is disturbingly reclusive and he runs one of the most consistently awful franchises in NBA history," wrote San Francisco Chronicle sports columnist Bruce Jenkins [2] The San Francisco Chronicle, the self-described Voice of the West, is Northern Californias largest newspaper. ...

Cohan graduated from Arizona State University in 1973. He is the founder of Sonic Communications. Arizona State University (ASU) is currently (as of Fall 2005) the largest university, in terms of student enrollment, in the United States, with a main-campus student body of 51,612. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1973 calendar). ...

External links

• Cohan the Barbarian
• Warriors Fever Is a Disease, by Betting Fool. San Francisco Chronicle, October 11, 2005.
• Warriors' Cohan Era. San Francisco Chronicle. February 10, 2002.