What’s next for the Warriors? ‘Might as well start a new streak’

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. “Just hated them”, said Clippers coach Doc Rivers, whose team is scheduled eight times at home this season for 12:30 p.m. local starts.

By the closing minutes of the fourth quarter, the game became such a clear blowout that interim head coach Luke Walton did the unthinkable and pulled several of his starters, conceding defeat.

Guard Shaun Livingston said the streak made the Warriors’ season different.

Both clubs were playing the back end of consecutive Friday-Saturday contests.

For the last month the entire basketball world has been wondering who, if anybody, would (or indeed could) stop the Golden State Warriors.

Practically nobody had the Milwaukee Bucks as the ones to finally end the Warriors’ winning ways. Curry had a long shooting night vs the Celtics as well, going 9-27 for 38 points.

They usually make 13 a night, but were just 6 of 26 from behind the arc in the final game of a seven-game road trip. Yet they were handed their first loss in large part to Greg Monroe who is a traditional big man. Monroe put up 28 points while shooting 11 of 16.

“I just told the guys that now we can have a regular season”, said Green.

“We never wavered”, Monroe said. “It was a great opportunity for us”.

Yet even with the 24-1 headstart, that will be a tall task. “Because at the end of the day, you got to wake up, or stay up”.

“I bet you thought we were going to be sad, huh?” a smiling Draymond Green rhetorically asked reporters in the locker room. “But it is nearly like a sense of relief”, Green said. “Like if you start off bad, it feels like by the time you wake up, the game’s over”. “We need to get back to defending and refocus”.

The game for the Warriors was relatively close, with Milwaukee commanding marginal leads in the first half and third quarter.

Curry said the Warriors could be proud of their achievement, but he added it was now time to move on. After he finished his verse, Green was asked when he knew the streak was finished, and a laughing Stephen Curry interjected, “When coach subbed us out”. “But tonight it didn’t go our way”.

What’s perhaps even wilder than the constant chaos that trails Golden State these days on its travels: Curry and his fellow Warriors really don’t seem to mind the nightly madness they invite. “We ended up with our first loss, but we can appreciate what we were able to accomplish”. The Thunder are currently on a four-game winning streak and appear to be one of the hottest teams in the league right now.

The loss snapped a 28-game winning streak dating back to the final four regular season games from the 2014-2015 season.