Funniest memes after Steph Curry, Golden State lose to Milwaukee Bucks, ending

“Even if you’re 24-and-1, losing still sucks”. Yes, we were had, the Warriors laughed. “Might as well start a new streak”. In November and December. 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.

After the game, Golden State fans remained long after the final buzzer, cheering Curry when he went to the locker room after his postgame, on-court TV interview. Even when Wilt was averaging 50 points a game in 1961-62, his team didn’t win ALL its games. But the Bucks also were coming off a Friday game in Toronto, and nothing in their 90-83 loss to the Raptors signaled they were about to take down the mighty Warriors. Beating Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James and Houston Rockets’ James Harden for the prestigious award, Curry has become one of the most notables players in the league today. They flew out of Milwaukee with seven weeks of fond memories that can’t be eclipsed by a single, streaks-snapping loss to the Bucks — and also the knowledge that the novelty is over and it’s time a bit of self-evaluation. Finally, the burden has lifted off their minds, their phones and social media. “It caught up to us”. “It feels like a weight being lifted off us”.

You can understand, then, why there’s such a frenzy sparked by Curry & Co. among mere mortals, especially those residing in Eastern Conference cities, where there’s only one chance per season to see the show first-hand. The Phoenix outscored the Badgers in the first three quarters and built a lead the latter could not overcome in Madison. Later, Curry and these Warriors admitted: Give the Bucks credit.

It’s foolish to suggest that the Warriors would be better off losing games here and there.

“We’re continuing to work toward being a championship team and that requires us getting better than we were past year”, interim coach Luke Walton said. “We plan on continuing to win a lot of ball games”. This was a palpable sporting environment, and one that I wasn’t expecting given all that we just talked about.

So Curry and his teammates watched Carter-Williams’ tomahawk dunk, the magnitude of this victory for the opponent washing over them.

A night after a thrilling double overtime win over the Boston Celtics to stretch their season opening win streak to 24 games, the Warriors were left too depleted and vulnerable against a talented Bucks team that is underachieving at the moment. It included two sets of back-to-backs, including the game against the Bucks a night after winning a double-overtime thriller against the Celtics. “I’m on the outside looking in and I’m watching Monday Night Football and they’re talking about ‘the streak.’ I’m like, golly”. When Leandro Barbosa traveled to Brazil during the All-Star break previous year, he hosted Harrison Barnes. Just repeating the title isn’t a grand enough goal anymore, and you wonder if that’s healthy for the team in the big picture.

Hopefully this is the win that inspires the Bucks to play better.

As the clock neared midnight, the team bus awaited several Warriors still sitting inside the Bradley Center.

The league expanded its schedule of Sunday afternoon starts this season, with 20 of the 23 games tipping off at 3:30 p.m. ET. “It happens. It takes nothing away from what they’ve done to start the season”.