A frenzied ride with the Golden State Warriors

Yet the Bucks won, and won big, defeating the Warriors 108-95, and abruptly halting Golden State’s historic run. They also halted the Los Angeles Lakers’ 33 game winning streak with a team that was powered by Wilt Chamberlain and Jerry West, back in 1972, still the longest winning streak in major professional sports history. The Apocalypse is upon us as the Warriors lose their first game of the season. Truth is that 24-0 has given way to 24-1 and it is still a record better than every other team in the league so we can quit calling it the end of everything.

The NBA has chose to split the conversation into two distinct categories: longest winning streak overall and longest in-season winning streak.

Golden State, which hasn’t lost a regular-season contest since falling to New Orleans 103-100 on April 7 of last season, led for all of a minute and 35 seconds Saturday and not once after Festus Ezeli converted a three-point play with 10:08 left in the first half.

It was Milwaukee who ended the Lakers streak back then and they did it tonight. The Bucks mostly outworked Golden State, taking a lead early and forcing their opponents to catch up. “We’re competitors, so we’re not complaining about it. It is fun to play that way”, Livingston said.

“But our goal was always to get better each and every time we get on the floor, whether that’s practice or whether that is in the game”. But the Bucks were able to battle through the fatigue better than Golden State, who were hoping to become the first National Basketball Association team to sweep a seven-game road trip.

“I told the guys postgame, ‘Now we can have a regular season, ‘” Green said.

Golden State, which averages 13 3-pointers a night, was just 6 of 26 from behind the arc.

The Warriors have a few days to recover from their exhausting road trip, ahead of opening a five game homestand against the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday.

Bucks center Greg Monroe had 28 points and 11 rebounds, as the Warriors allowed too many easy baskets to a fired-up Bucks team that entered the game with the third-worst record in the Eastern Conference.

Klay Thompson back after missing last game with an ankle injury.

“It’s tough. Nobody wanted to see it come to an end”, Curry said.

Curry said the Warriors could be proud of their achievement, but he added it was now time to move on.

Saturday’s loss also ended an emerging debate over how to calculate the Warriors’ winning streak. “Come on, we can beat them”.

Warriors had won 24 games in a row since the start of the season, shattering the previous record of 15 set by the 1993-94 Houston Rockets and the 1948-49 Washington Capitols. The difference about playing on the road, and it sounds like the ultimate no-shit truism, is that you don’t get to go home after a game like that.

Avery Bradley scored 23 points and Isaiah Thomas tallied 21 points and 13 assists as the Boston Celtics snapped the Charlotte Hornets’ four-game winning streak with a 98-93 victory. “I think we beat ourselves, especially on my end”.