The 1996–97 NBA season was the Warriors' 51st season in the National Basketball Association, and 35th in the San Francisco Bay Area. Due to extensive renovations at the Oakland Coliseum Arena, the Warriors played their home games at the San Jose Arena this season. In the off-season, the team signed free agent All-Star guard Mark Price, then traded Rony Seikaly to the Orlando Magic in exchange for Felton Spencer, Donald Royal and Jon Koncak at the start of the season. However, Koncak was out for the entire season with a knee injury, and never played for the Warriors. The team struggled with a 1–5 start to the season, then later on lost seven straight games in March as B. J. Armstrong played just 49 due to a knee injury, and Bimbo Coles played just 51 games due to a hernia injury. At midseas