Daily NBA Fix: The Golden State Warriors Will Win 72 Or More Games

The buzz around the Golden State Warriors naturally waned after their perfect streak was broken, but they are going to make history one way or another.

The Warriors are on pace to win 77 or 78 games this season, but it seems like we’ve lost a little interest in them.

Even as they continue to turn up some of the better teams in the NBA in their wake, like they did with the Miami Heat Monday night, we have started to just accept the inevitability of the Warriors. Stephen Curry can score 31 points, but that’s just something we accept, much like gravity.

Curry and the Warriors have become a constant, unstoppable force. You hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability. They are a train that likely just can’t be stopped. At 36-2, the Warriors are well on pace to beat the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ 72-10 record.

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In fact looking at Google trends, after they lost to the Milwaukee Bucks they’ve taken a significant dip in the number of searches.

Of course, all of this really is just the natural ebbs and flows of the sports calendar. The NBA gets a little hype when the season opens, but as both college football and NFL go through their postseasons, they take the front and center of the national collective sports conscious.

But that’s not to say we shouldn’t be watching them now either.

Curry’s historic pace for making 3-pointers has slowed down as instead of making 400 or more this season, it looks like we’ll be settling for around 359 being the new record. That means that roughly around Game 62 on March 7, Curry may be breaking is own record of 286 made 3-pointers … with 20 games left in the season. That’s a pretty big margin for error for him to break it.

It is pretty amazing that until the middle of December he was on pace to make 400.

Even if the number of searches and headlines have slowed down, this team is simply something to behold.

It is just a prediction, but I feel pretty confident saying the record that some questioned if the Warriors had the moral fiber to break, 72 wins, is slowly becoming an inevitability, much like another championship might be as well.

The Spurs Might Have Something To Say About That Though

Of course, the San Antonio Spurs are one of the few things, as well as injuries, that could possibly take that Golden State team off-track. They didn’t exactly have a chance to prove themselves last night as they beat the hapless Brooklyn Nets 106-79. The Nets are a mess, so that isn’t too impressive.

But a 33-6 record isn’t too shabby for San Antonio either, and they’ve also quietly become the league’s best team as far net rating is concerned. At plus-15, the Spurs are slightly ahead of the Warriors plus-13.8, and unsurprisingly they are both in the top five in offensive rating.

The Spurs are also a universal constant though one might worry in entropy will finally catch up to them. Here’s top hoping for a Warriors-Spurs collision in the Western Conference Finals.

LeBron is Reading Your Tweets

Well, not your tweets, but, at least, John Schuhmann’s tweets.

After that tweet was sent, things have improved for LeBron, and he admitted that he saw the tweet and he turned it into fuel according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Chris Haynes.

"“I actually saw [it] on my Instagram feed that I was the worst-shooting player in the NBA,” James said. “I actually saw that when I woke up from a nap. I remember exactly when that was. Denver. Right before the Denver game, so I answered the call.”"

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So don’t tweet at LeBron unless you want him to prove you wrong.