Not since last April, after locking up the No. 1 seed in the postseason, have the Warriors lost consecutive regular season games. Their opponent Monday is capable of delivering such a blow.
That would be the Cavaliers, who were defeated by the Warriors in the 2015 NBA Finals. The teams meet at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, where the most recent memory for the Warriors is of champagne and a championship victory party at a downtown steakhouse.
The Warriors (37-4) look to rebound from their worst performance this season, shooting 36.2 percent in a 113-95 loss at Detroit on Saturday, their second straight road loss.