With 72 in the books, Warriors want historic No. 73
SAN ANTONIO — Michael Jordan has been publicly mum about the Warriors’ chase of the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ wins record, but he apparently was quite vocal about the subject when he ran into Draymond Green during the All-Star break.
“‘Go get the record,’” Green said, relaying his February conversation with Jordan minutes after the Warriors’ tied the 72-win mark Sunday in San Antonio.
The Warriors will go for record-setting No. 73 in their regular-season finale against Memphis on Wednesday, a chance to dance with immortality by being one victory better than Jordan and that Chicago team of 20 years ago.
“They are synonymous with winning championships and the word elite,” Warriors point guard Stephen Curry said. …
Curry’s parents had strict policies about finishing homework before attending games and not going to games on school nights.
NBA TV’s telecast of the Warriors’ game against the Spurs on Sunday generated an average of 2.6 million total viewers — the network’s most-viewed telecast of all time.
CSN Bay Area registered its highest-rated game telecast — an 18.47 TV household rating for its coverage.
Fans wait for hours outside the team’s hotel, just to get a glimpse of the “rock stars.”
“We’ve got totally different skill sets, and I try to stay in my lane when it comes to that,” Curry said, before praising Jordan’s competitiveness.
Warriors center Andrew Bogut has been exchanging texts with fellow Australian Luc Longley, who manned the middle for the Bulls.
Longley, who also has shared snarky jokes with Warriors head coach Steve Kerr about fans forgetting that he played for the Bulls, doesn’t want the Warriors to break the record.
[...] he goes back and watches video to see “Mike’s footwork, Pippen doing everything and Rodman getting in people’s faces.”
If you don’t have tickets to the Warriors’ season finale against the Grizzlies, get ready to pay — big time.
According to the company, the average ticket price is $352, a 300 percent increase over last year’s season finale against the Nuggets ($88 a ticket).
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Victories needed to break the NBA record for wins in a season, which the Warriors now share with the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls, whom Michael Jordan led to a 72-10 mark.
Warriors announcer Bob Fitzgerald apologized a day after making disparaging comments about fans in San Antonio who were attempting to disrupt the CSNBA telecast of Sunday’s Warriors-Spurs game.
The response on social media was swift, some calling the words “unexcusable, unacceptable ... unprofessional” and calling for his firing.
In an email response to San Antonio radio host Russell Rush, Fitzgerald on Monday wrote, I reacted with an incredibly poor choice of words to a few fans that were trying to interfere with our broadcast.