The Golden State Warriors are two games away from, officially, becoming the best regular season team in NBA history. Even if they’re unable to win the final two games of 2015-16 – and considering how one is in San Antonio and the other is against a Grizzlies team that it beat by one on Saturday, it’s certainly possible – the defending champs would still be in the conversation for that honor.
Still, if the Warriors can beat San Antonio and Memphis, they will go 73-9 on the year. It’s kind of unfathomable that a basketball team can win that many games over the course of an 82-game season, and for a stretch, it looked like that wasn’t going to happen. April started with Golden State going 1-2 in its first three games with losses to Boston and Minnesota. If the team wanted to take its foot off the gas at that point, no one really would have blamed them.
At the very least, that stretch knocked the team to 69-9 with four games remaining and made it look like 73 wins would be hard to get. This is something that probably meant a lot to most people in the Warriors’ organization. Andre Iguodala is not one of those people.
Iguodala, on whether he found himself caring about 73 as it was slipping away: "Nah. Not at all."
— Ethan Strauss (@SherwoodStrauss) April 10, 2016
Iguodala expanded on this and said that focusing on reaching 73 wins distracts the team on a day-to-day basis. The reigning 2015 Finals MVP believes that if the team takes care of business every day and works on making itself better, the wins will eventually come. Here are his full quotes, including his excellent answer to the question “do accomplishments even feel good?”
The always interesting Andre Iguodala https://t.co/kKo4RYfw45 pic.twitter.com/6YeK2vBjtQ
— Ethan Strauss (@SherwoodStrauss) April 10, 2016
Maybe if the Warriors do end up going 73-9, Iguodala will take a minute and reflect on the accomplishment. It sounds like he won’t, but if he wants to, no one would blame him.
