Certain records are believed to be unbreakable, expected to stand for the rest of sporting time. Like Cal Ripken’s 2,632 consecutive games played, or John Wooden’s 88-game win streak with UCLA, or Cy Young’s 511 career wins. The 1996 Chicago Bulls’ 72 victories was on that short list. “Was” because the Golden State Warriors achieved the impossible on Wednesday night. In front of a feverish capacity crowd in Oracle Arena, Stephen Curry led his band of Warriors to victory number 73 of the season, eclipsing Michael Jordan’s 20-year-old record in the process.
The Warriors had little troubling dispatching a depleted Grizzlies squad and gained sole possession of the best regular-season mark in history: 73 wins against nine losses, indisputably the greatest 82-game run ever.