PORTLAND – For what it’s worth, and surely not much at the moment, the Warriors have now been victimized by precisely the kind of shellacking the 1995-96 Bulls took during their historic 72-10 season.
The Warriors, who happen to be chasing those Bulls and that record, swallowed a 32-point defeat Friday night, on the road – just as those Bulls did on March 10, 1996.
The Bulls recovered from that loss to the Knicks in New York to win their next six games and 12 of their next 13.
The Warriors, after a 137-105 pasting by the Trail Blazers at Moda Center, would welcome such a marvelous recovery, for it would mean that this was a bump in the road and not some ambitious young team discovering a weakness that may be exploited by others.