On Wednesday, April 13, the NBA’s Golden State Warriors played their final game in the regular season, making history with a 104-125 win against the Memphis Grizzlies.
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The 2015-16 regular season has come to a close and this season has been special for a lot of varied reasons.
Warriors: Host Houston on Saturday to open the first round of the playoffs.
Most No. 1 seeds in National Basketball Association history have traditionally coasted into the playoffs, usually resting starters and taking a slight mental break before the grind of the postseason. “With any situation any human being is in, when their back is against the wall, you’ll never know how strong you are until you have to be strong”, point guard Patrick Beverley told ESPN.com.
Thompson in an All-Star season made 276 3-pointers, shooting 42.5 percent from that distance. “They beat the Bulls record [to get] the most wins in the regular season, which is insane”, Master P says. It’s a rematch of last year’s Western Conference Finals, but this time there isn’t much doubt regarding how the series will end. He led the league in scoring at 30.1 points per game and continues to push the limits on where his game can go. Entering the game just eight three-pointers away from 400 for the season – he also became the first to reach 300 this campaign – Curry scored 20 points on 6-of-9 shooting from deep in the first to help the Warriors to a 37-23 lead.
Harden might not be in contention for the MVP award like he was last season, but he is very much an offensive force averaging career highs of 29.0 points and 7.5 assists per game. I was wrong, but I will say the same thing now that I said 20 years ago, ‘I don’t think this one will ever be broken.’ Somebody’s got to go 74-8.
Should the Warriors and Spurs meet up in the conference finals-as expected-it would mark the first time since the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics met in the 2010 NBA Finals that the two previous NBA champions squared off in the postseason.
Here were look at the numbers from Golden State’s sensational season.
Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen, for one, stated that his former Chicago team would sweep the current Warriors team in a mythical series matchup. The Warriors whipped the Grizzlies 119-69 at home back on November 2, with the 50-point win the third-largest margin of victory in franchise history.But where would this team have been without Stephen Curry? But the Raptors went 56-26 in their best regular season ever, have an All-Star backcourt in Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan, and believe they are ready after posting a winning record against every other East playoff team. On Oct. 30 in Houston, Golden State won 112-92.
This could well be the best series of the play offs, Portland are an exciting team and can easily steal a win on the road, but so can the Clippers. If anything is clear, that’s what this Warriors season has been about, pulling off the ridiculous.
Because of the Rockets struggles, it’s been easy to overlook that Harden’s been pretty damn good for three-fourths of this season, too.
That game drew an average of 2.6 million viewers, the most for a game on NBA TV.
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They got to 73 audaciously, uproariously and from such deep distance that you wondered if Stephen Curry & Co. could even see the end goal from where they were on Wednesday.
