Steve Kerr should believe in his sweet shooting juggernaut, but he’s also a realist.
The Golden State Warriors are the darlings of the NBA after roaring out to a 21-2 start. They are current only pace for the best record in NBA history, 75-7.
That’s not going to happen, but could the Warriors top the 1995-96 Bulls’ 72-10 record? Kerr, the Warriors head coach, was on those teams.
He says there’s no way this Warriors team will top that mark
When asked if the Warriors could pull it off, Kerr responded, “Oh God, no. No!”
Kerr followed that exclamation with, “We had this guy named Michael Jordan on that team. That year, I think we were 41-3. So if we can go 21-1 the next 22 games, come talk to me.”
“What I remember that year is there were about 10 games where Michael just decided, ‘We’re going to win,’” he said. “And every other team on Earth would have lost those 10 games. And Michael Jordan was … there’ll never be another one. Nobody has ever come close, and I don’t think anybody ever will. He wanted to break that Lakers record of 69 wins, so he decided we would do it, so we did it. There’s only one Michael.”
Phil Jackson, who coached the 72-win Bulls, has said no Western Conference team will break the record because the travel is too grueling.
I agree.