Talk:San Diego Conquistadors

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This page should not be merged with the page for the San Diego Conquistadors. Leave it alone.

Next time some nameless Wikipedian with little knowledge of the ABA wants to alter this article or the one about the Conquistadors, how about some discussion here?

Merger of Sails and Conquistadors articles is a mistaken proposition

The Sails and the Conquistadors are not the same team. They had different owners. They had different players (a total of 3 of the Sails' 14 players played for the Conquistadors). They had a different team name, they had different colors, they had different uniforms . . . if the Sails and the Conquistadors are the same team, then so are the New York Jets and the New York Giants.

The Sails and the Conquistadors did not have the same players

Out of the 14 players on the Sails' beginning roster, only 3 had previously played for the Conquistadors.

Lee Davis, Caldwell Jones and Bo Lamar were the only players who played for both the Conquistadors and the Sails.

All of the other Sails were not Conquistadors players:

• #35 Clint Chapman
• #6 Tom Ingelsby
• #2 Stew Johnson
• #43 Kevin Joyce
• #15 Pat McFarland
• #53 Mark Olberding
• #11 Roscoe Poindexter
• #12 Dave Robisch
• #9 Rick Schmidt
• #21 Bobby Warren
• #22 Joby Wright

The Sails and the Conquistadors did not have the same owners

Dr. Leonard Bloom owned the Conquistadors.

Frank Goldberg owned the Sails.

The Sails and the Conquistadors did not have the same coaches

Bill Musselman was the head coach of the Sails; he had not been a part of the Conquistadors franchise.

The Sails and the Conquistadors did not have the same people in management

Irv Kaze was General Manager of the Sails; he had never been involved with the Conquistadors.

Alex Groza was Director of Player Personnel for the Sails; he did not have this position with the Conquistadors. Stan Albeck was Director of Player Personnel for the Conquistadors.

The Sails and the Conquistadors had entirely different names, uniforms and color schemes

The Sails wore white, blue and green (officially Ocean Cap White, Royal Blue, and Kelly Green).

The Conquistadors wore yellow and red.

Take a look at the uniforms of the two teams. They are as different as the color schemes or the names. Same for the logos.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:40, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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If there's going to be one article for the franchise in both its incarnations, shouldn't it be at the name (San Diego Conquistadors) by which it was known for most of its existence? john k (talk) 14:58, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

The Conquistadors and Sails were the same franchise

In response to the recent dispute on this page, it should be clarified that the Conquistadors and Sails were the same franchise. Goldberg purchased the Conquistadors and changed the uniforms and team name: see [1]. As further evidence, see:

• The Official NBA Basketball Encyclopedia. Villard Books. 1994. p. 369. ISBN 0-679-43293-0.

The Official NBA Basketball Encyclopedia lists the season by season records for the Conquistadors and Sails under one heading. The same goes with basketball-reference.com: see [2]. — Myasuda (talk) 15:02, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Requested move 4 February 2021

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jack Frost (talk) 11:04, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

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San Diego Sails → San Diego Conquistadors – This franchise was known as the Sails only for its final season, which only lasted 11 games before the organization folded. The team was known as the Conquistadors for the remainder of its existence, three full 84-game seasons, including two where the team played in the playoffs, and its period of peak notability, when it was coached by Wilt Chamberlain, who acted as a player-coach for the organization. The Conquistadors name is far more commonly associated with the defunct franchise. Following the precedence set at the recent move of SDCCU Stadium to San Diego Stadium, it is necessary to locate the page at its common name, not its final name. Azure1233 (talk) 03:27, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Semi-support. On one hand, I think there's something to be said about that. On the other, there's precedence for using the final name with other teams. And here's also the long-standing issue of people trying to (incorrectly) claim they were two separate franchises. oknazevad (talk) 03:37, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Support move. I don't entirely agree that this is the same as the San Diego Stadium move; I used existing precedent for stadiums there, whereas for the most part sports teams are located at their final name (barring relocation). But this is such an obvious common-name case that the page should be located at the prior name. O.N.R. ^(talk) 05:43, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Support Only one year as the Sails. The NBA Encyclopedia p. 313 lists their season-by-season records under the Conquistador heading, including the one as the Sails, so it's not that uncommon.—Bagumba (talk) 12:40, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Support - Typically we use the last name of a defunct team, but this feels like an excellent example of an exception. Would just like the consensus to reflect that it is an exception, not a new precedent. Rikster2 (talk) 14:09, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

• Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 21:10, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
• Weak support. As stated above we usually title articles by the last name used by a defunct team, but it does feel strange to list them under than name when it only lasted for such a brief time. Rreagan007 (talk) 00:16, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

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