Game preview: Warriors’ win streak on the line against the Celtics

STEPHEN Curry is having the season of a lifetime. The Pacers cut a 28-point fourth-quarter deficit to six in the final minute. Curry is shooting 52.7 percent from the field, 46.8 percent from the three point line and 93.2 percent from the free throw line, he is also is third in the league in steals with 2.3 per game. The unprecedented winning streak has many in the sports commentary class wondering aloud the following: “Can the Warriors beat the 1995-96 Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls record of 72-10?”

Ever since Steve Kerr took over as head coach last season, the minutes-per-game averages have decreased for all the Warriors’ top players.

Thompson on Thursday did not practice for a second straight day after spraining his right ankle.

The fast pace of the Warriors has also made them one of the more turnover-prone teams in the National Basketball Association. I mean there is a chance it could happen on Saturday when they are in Milwaukee on a back-to-back, but I don’t see that happening. Barnes won’t play and at the posting time of this article, Thompson was a game time decision, but injuries aside (ahem, Marcus Smart will be out too, mind you), Boston has put together one of the best defensive back courts in the league with Smart, Bradley, and Crowder.

“We’re obviously going to be cautious with it. If there’s any doubt about it, then we’ll rest him”, Golden State’s interim head coach Luke Walton said, according to the report.

He finished a season-high 39 points against the Indiana Pacers and has been recovering with the injury since.

“It was one of those nights where I got a lot of great looks”.

In an interview with ESPN the Magazine’s Sam Alipour, Curry was asked: “Is going down as the Greatest of All Time in your mind’s eye, or do you just go in conceding that title due to the presence of one Michael Jordan (MJ)?” Steph Curry is better still than a year ago, but improved performances from Draymond Green and Festus Ezeli seem to be pushing the Warriors to the next level.

Isaiah Thomas scored all 20 of his points in the second half in Boston’s fourth straight home win. Nobody does this better than Boston, which comes into tonight’s game generating a league-best 21.3 points off turnovers.

“Just knowing any given night you don’t know who’s going to be that guy, that’s the strength of this team”. We’ll just have to stretch that bench a little more thin to get both Thompson and Harrison Barnes back to 100%. “We know we can get better”.