The Golden State Warriors gave the New York Knicks a good old-fashioned beating on the score of 116-95, and the team is on pace more than ever to beat the 72-10 record of the Chicago Bulls.
Although the players are not thinking about that, the chance to make history should be weighing on their minds.
"I mean, you think of it," Klay Thompson told The Washington Post, "but we don't really talk about it. We just want to keep winning, take it week-by-week and not look too far ahead."
However, putting undue pressure unto themselves can only backfire.
"People ask us after games what it feels like to be whatever our record is at that point, and you get reminded where we are," MVP Stephen Curry told Inside Bay Area.
"But when we're out there on the floor, we're not playing like if we lose, we'll be off the pace. There's no pressure when we're out there, so that's a good feeling."
The Golden State Warriors are sitting on a 44-4 record, and they only need to win 29 games in order to beat the Chicago Bulls' 72-10 record.
Draymond Green also shared a healthy perspective on the chance to make history.
"We're just trying to take it one game at a time. At the end of the day we're trying to get better each and every day," the 6'7" forward told Esquire. "If we won 73 and beat the record but didn't win a championship, nobody would care anyway, so we're just trying to keep working to get better every day."
Kelly Dwyer in his column, Ball Don't Lie, commented on how the Golden State Warriors are self-aware about their record and their place in history.
"As things stand now, the Warriors would have to finish the season on a 29-5 tear in order to break the record for most wins in a season," he wrote. We call that a 'tear' because winning eighty-five percent of a team's professional basketball games is a freaking 'tear.' That sort of run equates to a 70-win season.
