With last night’s 112-101 win over the Spurs in Oakland the Golden State Warriors become the second team in the history of the NBA to win seventy games in a season. With three games remaining the Warriors stand at 70-9 with a home and away against the injury decimated Memphis Grizzlies and a road game at San Antonio where the Spurs will be striving to close out a perfect 41-0 home slate.
Warriors’ coach Steve Kerr has said he feels inclined to rest his players, but the young Warrior players have been vocal in their desire to either tie or break the Bulls’ ’95-’96 best ever record of 72-10. Ironically, Steve Kerr played on that Bulls team.
It took last night’s win in Oakland by the Warriors to officially clinch the No. 1 seed in the West which should tell us something about the type of season San Antonio has had to date.
Maybe something to keep an eye is the finger injury LaMarcus Aldridge suffered last night. He never looked the same shooting the ball after his finger basically dislocated sideways several times last night.
Congrats to the Warriors for being the story of the league this season coming off their championship run of a year ago.
Not to run this into the ground, but this is where most thought the Thunder would be after getting to the Finals in 2012. The difference is Golden State didn’t trade Klay Thompson, got a break with the drafting of Draymond Green, while the Thunder lost it’s sixth man and co-pilot at the point in clutch time for Steven Adams, Jeremy Lamb, and Mitch McGary.
It’s ironic for Harden as well as last night his Houston Rockets were in essence eliminated from playoff contention by losing at home to the tanking Phoenix Suns.
The Harden trade will make for one of the best ever ESPN 30/30 films as far as NBA related subject matter if OKC doesn’t make a deep run this season and Durant ends up leaving to get his ring elsewhere. It’s the NBA’s version of the Michigan Fab Five never winning a championship.