Warriors winning streak ends at 24 in a loss to Milwaukee Bucks

And not once after Festus Ezeli converted a three-point play with 10:08 left in the first half.

“It’s tough. Nobody wanted to see it come to an end”, Curry said. The previous three teams with the longest road win streak to start the season (the 1969-1970 New York Knicks, and the 1960-61 and 1961-1962 Boston Celtics) all won the championships in their respective seasons.

The Warriors also had to work with Klay Thompson coming back off of his ankle injury he suffered against the Indiana Pacers earlier that week (he missed the Boston game). He said it best: “We have fun together as a team”. That’s why it is so hard what these guys have done so far. “It caught up to us”. Surely, the team is now much more driven after experiencing the pains of defeat in the last game. Winning 24 games to start the season isn’t an easy task.

There was a flight bound for Charlotte that night as the C’s would have to play the second-place team in the East, the Hornets, the following night.

After 14 days on the road and on the final game of a seven-game road trip, the Warriors were just not primed to hit 25-0.

Bucks led by over 10 points for most of the contest and although Warriors closed the gap to one on a couple of occasions they never looked like winning. Every time the Warriors punched, the Bucks counterpunched with greater authority.

Point guard Michael Carter-Williams also had 11 in the final quarter, including an exclamation-point dunk with 32 seconds to play.

Shooting guard O.J. Mayo finished with 18 points and forward Jabari Parker added 19 with seven rebounds and a blocked shot for the Bucks, who shot 49.4 per cent.

Packing up late Saturday night in the visitors’ dressing room at the BMO Harris Bradley Center, the black roller bag with the embroidered Golden State Warriors logo didn’t want to zip quite right.

The widely-held consensus was that the mainstream public didn’t truly start paying attention until the annual Christmas Day games that had become such a ratings bonanza, meaning everything that came before was, in essence, expendable.

“We showed some spurts to get back into the game”, Curry said. “But I don’t think we ever played our A-plus game, which is the big goal of the season, to find that, as we go into the playoffs”.

Forward Draymond Green, who scored 24 points for the Warriors, said he felt like a weight had been lifted off his shoulders now that the streak was over.

“Once we focus on getting better each and every day, hey, another streak may happen”, Green said.

The Warriors will be fine, and they’re still on pace to make history. Whiteside’s still got a ways to go, but with his huge league lead in both total rejections (90) and blocks per game (4.1), they are setting him up to join some elite company. “Like if you start off bad, it feels like by the time you wake up, the game’s over”. “Nobody wanted it to end”, he said. “But tonight it didn’t go our way. We ended up with our first loss but we can appreciate what we were able to accomplish”.

The 24-0 Warriors did not have a shootaround Saturday after winning in double overtime over the Celtics on Friday.

With the win over Warriors, the Bucks improved to just 10-15 on the season as they sit in last in the Central Division. The Warriors had a 28-game regular-season winning streak going back to last spring, five short of the National Basketball Association record 33-game run by the Los Angeles Lakers in 1971-72.