The Golden State Warriors look to extend their NBA record start to the season with a win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday night. The Warriors have started the season with 24 straight wins and they'll look to make it a quarter-century's worth in the final game of a seven-game road trip. The Bucks are 9-15 and have lost three of their last four, but they've got enough young talent on board to put a scare into a Dubs team finishing off a long road swing with the second game of a back-to-back. Can Milwaukee pull of the upset? Here's our game preview & prediction.
Game Info:
When: 5:30 p.m. PST
Where: BMO Harris Bradley Center, Milwaukee, WI
TV: NBA TV (national), CSN Bay Area, FOX Sports Wisconsin (local)
Spread: Warriors By 8
What's At Stake:
The Warriors are looking to win their 29th straight game dating back to last season, and extend their jaw-dropping NBA record start to 25-0. For Milwaukee, this is a chance to put an extremely disappointing start to the 2015-16 campaign behind them by etching their name in the history books as the team who stopped the Warriors' streak.
What They're Saying About The Milwaukee Bucks:
Bucks host the Warriors with history in sight
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What They're Saying About The Golden State Warriors:
Aching Warriors look to finish road trip strong
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Key To The Game:
The Warriors held off several Celtics charges in a thrilling double-overtime victory last night, but there's a really good chance that just an emotionally topsy-turvy game took a lot out of their gas tanks -- especially with the team missing one of its key cogs in shooting guard Klay Thompson. Thompson is back in the lineup for tonight's game, but will he be close to 100% on his ankle? Milwaukee will need to use its young legs to slash and kick early and often and test Thompson, while pounding Golden State down low with Greg Monroe in the paint.
Milwaukee's best chance at victory is to run circles around a tired Warriors team. However, that's going to be extremely tough against a Warriors team used to doing the running.
Prediction: Warriors Win 108-99
Golden State's first loss isn't coming against a Bucks team which has struggled to string quality possessions together on offense all year long, ranking 29th in the NBA with just 95.5 points per game. Stephen Curry will shoot the Warriors through their exhaustion, once again doing it all to push the Warriors to a perfect road trip in a perfect season.
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