Now they have a record to beat for the longest winning streak by any team at the start of the season, a record they’ve now tied with two other teams: the Houston Rockets of 1993-94 and the Washington Capitols of 1948-49.
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James said that continuity in the lineup has led to consistency in their play.
Jason Richardson said it was nearly too surreal to be honored by the Warriors on a night they were primed to make such remarkable history. He played just 28, one more than his fewest this season, and he got some valuable rest.
If not for the 0-15 Philadelphia 76ers, there would likely be much more focus on just how bad the Lakers have been. Their key bench players Shaun Livingston and Leandro Barbosa missed one game this season.
“We know how hard it was to win 67”, Curry told the San Jose Mercury news. Kobe and company head to Oakland to take on the reigning world champions, the Golden State Warriors, who have yet to lose a game in the 2015-16 season, carry last year’s MVP in Stephen Curry and do so bringing little to no momentum to the party. Their center Andrew Bogut did not play for six games due a concussion.
But the Warriors responded immediately with an 8-0 run as Thompson scored five straight points and assisted on Barnes’ 3-pointer.
In a backcourt that rarely needs an introduction anymore; we have the Splash Brothers, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson. If the Lakers can come within 1-20 points by the end of the game, bet365 is paying out from between 5.50 to a whopping 21.00 for a 1-2 point winning margin. “We want to be at the best we can be, and if that’s 72, 73 wins, then so be it”. “I apologized to my teammates for it”, he said per ESPN.com’s Dave McMenamin. James also stressed that the Warriors is “the most healthy team” he’d seen in National Basketball Association history.
Defensively, Green top the chart for Golden State in rebounds per game, at 7.9, with Curry, who puts in 5.7 assists and 5.2 rebounds on average – averaging 2.6 steals per outing. Incidentally, that’s the same team the Warriors face Tuesday.
“They’ve just been consistent”, said LeBron James, who lost to Golden State in the finals last season with Cleveland.
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“You know, ‘Bron is a lot of things – a lot of great things – but probably where you’re not going to see him is out there playing for the [Lake Erie] Monsters [an AHL team based in Cleveland] or the [New York] Rangers”.
