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Steph Curry’s Golden State Warriors Are the Greatest Regular Season Team Ever
By Jeremy Stahl
The 2015–16 Golden State Warriors are very good. You might even say that the Golden State Warriors are the best basketball team to ever play the game. You could reasonably say this because the Warriors set the NBA’s 20-year-old record for most wins in a regular season on Wednesday with 73 after beating the Memphis Grizzlies 125–104 at Oracle Arena in Oakland. The Warriors’ mark of 73–9 surpasses the 72–10 record of Michael Jordan’s 1995–96 Chicago Bulls, who went on to win the NBA Finals in six games.
Early on there was little suspense as to which way the game was going to go, with last year’s and (unless something criminal happens) soon-to-be this year’s MVP Steph Curry scoring 20 points on 6-for-9 shooting from beyond the arc in the first quarter. Just past midway through the first, Curry went on one of his now-trademark three point runs, hitting back-to-back-to-back treys. You can watch those below.
Curry finished the game with 46 points on 10-for-19 three-pointers to also push his regular season record for threes in a single season to 402. This is 116 more than the previous record, which Curry set last season during the Warriors’ championship run. It is also 130 more than the next-best mark by a player not named Steph Curry (his teammate Klay Thompson hit 272 last season). Curry’s last three three-pointers of the regular season came in a 21-point third quarter.
By scoring more than 40 points, Curry moved to a season average of just more than 30 points per game. That achievement is made even more impressive by the fact that in 19 games this season he sat the entire fourth quarter, including in Wednesday’s finale.
At the start of this season, in the midst of the team’s record-breaking 24–0 opening run, Slate’s Jack Hamilton said the Warriors were attempting to be “the most purely fun basketball team that has ever played.” They’ve done that and more. It’s sad that basketball fans have no more regular season games to look forward to watching this team play, but also very happy that we have an entire playoffs to watch.