Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors celebrate first of their record setting regular season, now has to focus on more serious mission.
In the backseat first 73 wins of the warriors who had them in the record books. Once again touch the Warriors court today to begin the first-round series against the Houston Rockets, the same amount that they have other 15 playoff teams.
"The regular season does not mean anything at this point," Curry said Friday. "We have two months to play our best basketball and compete and get it done."
With new numerical target list after the Warriors 73 wins to break the previous mark of 72 Chicago 20 years ago.
Have 16 postseason victories, and collected the Golden State's second straight championship to be stored in their single-season wins record and continue the most successful season in NBA history.
When you fail, futile their regular season record.
"That just goes with the territory," said coach Steve Kerr. "We're the defending champs. When you're the favorite, it's a little different dynamic.
Last year even though we won 67 games and were the one seed, people still wondered if we could get it done. It's a different feel, a different dynamic. We still have to win 16 games. "
Houston also crawled to the end, needed a win in the regular season finale to catch the playoffs.
The reward of the Rocketsis a rematch with Warriors, Houston fell in five games in last year's Western Conference finals.