NBA TV’s coverage of the Golden State-San Antonio game on Sunday averaged 2.6 million viewers, easily surpassing the network’s all-time high set earlier this season for the same teams (1.4 million on January 25). “So, we’re going to take it one game at a time and we’re facing guys we played in the Western Conference finals, and obviously they’re playing well and we are too.”TV: 3:30 p.m. ET, ABCABOUT THE ROCKETS (41-41): Houston fired coach Kevin McHale less than a month into the season, dealt with trade rumors and reported disgruntlement from center Dwight Howard and battled inconsistency throughout the campaign before posting wins in three straight to close out the season and overcome a two-game deficit for the No. 8 spot”.
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As far as what Jordan’s reaction before the breaking of the record, Warrior’s power forward Draymond Green said that Jordan told him during the NBA All Star Weekend to “Go win the record”.
Since the odds are that either the Spurs or Warriors will fight through the 16-team playoff format and emerge as this year’s National Basketball Association champions, the much older Spurs have to outlast the much younger Warriors. Statistics back them up.
Here we look at the numbers from Golden State’s sensational season. “MVP!” and the Warriors were well on their way to win No. 73.
It was the climax of a biopic Hollywood waited 20 years to wrap. So easy, they could stumble in the playoffs if they get bored, lulled into a poor performance or by an uninspired matchup.
And the big one, the pressure poker that’ll stare the Warriors dead in the eyes right until the very end, is whether the historic 73 wins will be all for naught should the Spurs or Cavaliers crack the code and solve Golden State. But they were spared another postseason matchup with the Spurs with the Grizzlies’ loss at Golden State.
The Grizzlies avoided an outright rout from there on out, but the structure of the game did not change.
Curry finished the regular season with a scoring average above 30 points per game, and became the ninth player to achieve the 50-40-90 club: shooting at least 50 percent from the field, 40 percent from three-point range and 90 percent from the foul line.
Pessimism aside, this year’s championship will either validate the Warriors’ standing atop the rest of the league or dampen their remarkable season.
San Jose Mercury-News columnist Tim Kawakami reported on “Sports Talk Live”, a show on CSN Bay Area, that the team took the starting time as a slight. He’s done all of that, of course, while keeping his defense at a level good enough to be either the first or second choice on just about every ballot for defensive player of the year. Golden State would have to like their chances.NBA Commissioner Adam Silver also congratulated the record-setters.
The aftermath of the win brought some time for reflection and praise. The Golden State Warriors have lost just two home games all season. “Kudos to the entire Warriors organization”.
Next: Game 1 of the first round on Saturday at Oracle Arena against Houston, which is an eighth-seed afterthought after reaching the Western Conference finals last season (and losing to the Warriors in five games).
Both games also set regular-season records for viewers on WatchESPN, the company’s streaming platform.
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“If they play well, it’ll be hard for anybody in the East to beat them four times”.
