November 4

November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 57 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Golden State

Golden State may refer to:

Golden State Warriors

The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in Oakland, California. The Warriors compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member club of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. The team was established in 1946 as the Philadelphia Warriors based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a founding member of the Basketball Association of America (BAA), and it won the inaugural 1947 BAA Finals that is now considered the first NBA Championship.

In 1962, the franchise relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area and was renamed as the San Francisco Warriors until 1971, when it changed its geographic moniker to Golden State, California's state nickname. Since 1972, the team's home court has been Oracle Arena in Oakland.

The Warriors have won four NBA championships. They most recently won the NBA championship by defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2015 Finals.

Franchise history

Team creation

The Warriors were founded in 1946 as the Philadelphia Warriors, a charter member of the Basketball Association of America. They were owned by Peter A. Tyrrell, who also owned the Philadelphia Rockets of the American Hockey League. Tyrrell hired Eddie Gottlieb, a longtime basketball promoter in the Philadelphia area, as coach and general manager. He named the team after an early professional team in the city.

James Bowen (author)

James Bowen (born 15 March 1979, Surrey) is an author and busker based in London. His books A Street Cat Named Bob ,The World According to Bob and A Gift From Bob, written with the help of author Garry Jenkins were international best-sellers, He now dedicates his time to help Numerous Charities that involve Homelessness, Literacy & Animal Welfare.

Early life

Bowen was born in Surrey in March, 1979. Following his parents’ divorce, he moved to Australia with his mother. Home life was tense and, because they moved frequently, Bowen was unsettled & Frequently bullied at school, after a while of constant problems he recounts how he wanted an escape and began sniffing glue and dropping out of education in his second year of high school, becoming a self-confessed "tearaway kid" who would later be falsely diagnosed with ADHD, schizophrenia and manic depression. In 1997 he returned again to the UK and lived with his half-sister and her husband at the time. Tensions arose once more and the arrangement did not last; in time, he became homeless and began sleeping on the streets. From this point, Bowen spent almost ten years either sleeping rough or staying briefly in charity-run shelters; it was during this time that he began to use heroin in an attempt to escape the realities of homelessness.