During a 24-0 start, the Golden State Warriors seemed invincible. However, in the final game of a grueling seven-game road trip and on the back end of a back-to-back, Golden State couldn't push their tired legs fast enough to keep their NBA-record streak alive.
The young Milwaukee Bucks ran circles around the Warriors all night, putting forth one of their best shooting efforts of the year in a history-making 108-95 home win. The victory snaps Golden State's NBA record winning streak to start the 2014-15 season, and their overall regular-season winning streak at 28 -- the second-longest such stretch in NBA history.
Golden State finish their streak nine games clear of the 1993-94 Houston Rockets and 1948-49 Washington Capitals who previously held the NBA record with 15-0 starts to their respective regular seasons.
The Warriors' legs looked heavy all day long as they came up short on jumpers consistently and turned the ball over almost every time that they had a semblance of momentum going. Golden State shot just 37.5% from the field in the first half and under 20% from three, falling down 59-48 at the break.
Golden State turned up the heat in the third, outscoring the Bucks 29-21 and cutting the deficit to three. However, the team's array of jump shooters went cold in the fourth as the Bucks closed things out with a furious late run, outscoring Golden State 28-18 in the final frame.
Stephen Curry (28) and Draymond Green (24) accounted for 52 of the team's 95 points. The rest of the team, however, couldn't match the pair's production. Golden State failed to crack 100 points for the first time all season, shooting just 40.9% from the floor and 23.1% from downtown.
Milwaukee's jump shooters keyed a balanced effort while center Greg Monroe bullied the Dubs down low. Monroe finished with 28 points on 11-of-16 shooting, and the Bucks finished 49.4% from the field and 42.9% from three.
Regardless of tonight's outcome, the Warriors' NBA-record start is made even more impressive when you take into account that they are tied for the most games played so far in 2015-16, and have played the second-most road games in the NBA. In an odd bit of parallelism, the Milwaukee Bucks were the team that snapped the Lakers' 33-game regular season winning streak in 1972 -- the record which the Warriors came up just five games short of tying.
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