Brooklyn Nets: 5 takeaways from smackdown at Golden State

5. Goodbye, Oakland; hello, San Francisco

Saturday night marked the 44th visit by the Brooklyn Nets franchise to the building now known as Oracle Arena. It was also their last.

The Warriors will leave Oakland after this season to move to a new facility in San Francisco.

The building opened in November 1966 as the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena and kept that name for 30 years until it was closed for an extensive renovation project in 1996.

When it re-opened in 1997, it was called The Arena at Oakland for eight years and then was simply the Oakland Arena for the next two years. Oracle purchased the naming rights in October 2006.

It was in this building that the Nets played their first NBA game on Oct. 22, 1976, beating the Warriors 104-103 behind their guard tandem of Tiny Archibald, who scored 30 points, and John Williamson, who had 27.

The Nets went 15-29 at Oracle overall, including going 0-7 as the Brooklyn Nets. This is also the building that hosted the longest game in franchise history, a four-overtime battle on Feb. 1, 1987, that ended with 150-147 loss by the then-New Jersey Nets.

That game was notable for Buck Williams‘ 60-minute, 27-rebound effort and a triple-double by Orlando Woolridge.

Joe Barry Carroll had 43 points and 24 rebounds for the Warriors and Sleepy Floyd — a former and future Net at that point in his career — played 64 minutes and scored 29 points with 13 assists.

The teams combined for 251 shots, 78 free throws, 297 points … and nine 3-point attempts. Yeah, it was a different time.