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The Golden State Warriors, who tied the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls' NBA-best wins record with their 72nd victory of the season Sunday night, can set a new mark with a home win over the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday, the season's final night. The Warriors joined the ranks of Michael Jordan's Bulls after beating San Antonio 92-86 to end the Spurs' chance of completing the first undefeated home schedule in NBA history.
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Eight days after saying the 1995-96 Bulls would sweep the 2015-16 Warriors in a four-game series and that he would hold Stephen Curry to under 20 points, Scottie Pippen took to Twitter to congratulate Golden State on its record-tying 72nd win with only nine losses.
Curry finished with a game-high 37 points in the victory.
"Giving credit where credit is due. Congrats to @SteveKerr and his @warriors on win no. 72. They earned it tonight," Pippen tweeted Sunday night.
"@StephenCurry30 showed why he's the MVP. As cold blooded shooter as I've ever seen and a basketball IQ that is off the charts," Pippen wrote in a second tweet.
On April 2, the 50-year-old Pippen was approached by a staff member of the "Dan Patrick Show" and asked for his projection on how a series between his Bulls and these Warriors would play out.
"Bulls in four," Pippen said.
"I probably put Michael (Jordan) on Klay (Thompson)," Pippen added. "I think that my size and length would bother (Stephen Curry) a little bit. I mean, I think if I can keep him under 20 (points), I think I'm doing good ... I think I could."
Right after the final buzzer sounded Sunday night, Curry and Draymond Green embraced on the court.
"Obviously with Pip coming out and saying what he said, that's cool," Green said of Pippen's recent prediction. "We respect those guys. We've got one of them in our locker room which is great. Mike (Jordan) told me, at All-Star (Weekend), 'Go get the record. Y'all don't win the record I'm going to be hot. I'm going to blame you.' Almost there."
Warriors head coach Steve Kerr was a reserve on the legendary Jordan/Pippen-led Bulls team.
"I don't even know what to say, really," Kerr said Sunday night. "It's crazy. It just feels like a right-place-right-time type thing to be part of two teams that have performed like this and won at this level for the entire season. I'm pretty lucky, really, just to play next to Michael and Scottie and Dennis (Rodman) and play for Phil (Jackson) and come here and inherit this whole group. Steph (Curry) and Klay (Thompson) and Draymond (Green) and Andre (Iguodala), and everybody else, as my first coaching job. A pretty good draw."
